• Our DOT-SAP Wellness Coaching service is available to help you make the space to more fully explore your thoughts, feelings, values, behaviors relative to your substance use concern. We are expert in helping to uncover the root of problems, understand difficult emotions, assisting in negativing thought patterns and helping to create a deeper understanding and broader context for your substance use and/or life choices. 

• We mostly work with focusing on your present and future experiences and expectations, partnering with you to move into the realm of “action”. Our Wellness Coach is also a licensed Mental Health Professional with a wealth of experience helping individuals understand how the past may be holding them back. That said it is important to note, working through co-occurring clinical disorders or trauma would certainly fall within the realm of therapy.

• In DOT-SAP Wellness coaching most of the progress happens in between sessions. Therefore you can expect your Wellness Coach to co-create an appropriate action or treatment plan with you to begin making those behavior shifts to appropriately support you in addressing the substance use concern.

• ​ A Substance Abuse Professional has met the specific credentials, qualifications and passed the qualification exam of the Department of Transportation (DOT). 

• The SAP evaluates employees who have violated a DOT drug and alcohol regulation and makes recommendations to the employer concerning education, treatment, continuing care for the employee, and follow-up testing.

• SAPs are Licensed or Master Addiction Counselors certified by NAADAC.

• SAPs understand the DOT CFR 49, Part 40.

• SAPs are knowledgeable with regards to diagnosis and treatment of alcohol and other drugs.

Before an employee in a Department Of Transportation (DOT) safety-sensitive position can be recommended for Return To Duty (RTD) status, they must successfully complete a recommended return-to-duty process with a qualified Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) i.e. DOT-SAP.

Our DOT-SAP will:

• Conduct a thorough face-to-face clinical assessment with the employee.

• Recommend a required plan of treatment and/or education for the employee in order to be eligible for a DOT-SAP RTD recommendation.

• Send initial report to the Designated Employer Representative (DER) regarding the DOT-SAP initial assessment and the treatment recommendations.

• Monitor the employee's progress throughout DOT-SAP recommended treatment process.

• Conduct a face-to-face follow-up evaluation with the employee, to verify the status of completion of the DOT-SAP recommendations.