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Coach Mary Ann C. Palmer

Has your child’s drug and alcohol misuse taken over your life? Are you consumed by fear and worry? If you don’t know where to turn, or what steps to take, I can help.

I know this journey firsthand. My son struggled with alcohol and substance misuse for years. I tried to control him and the addiction, but the more I pushed, the more he resisted. It wasn’t until I learned a different approach—an evidence-based approach rooted in science and kindness—that our lives began to change. He is now in long-term recovery.

As a Certified Professional Coach, I help parents let go of control while strengthening connection, improve communication skills, set healthy boundaries, support positive change, and prioritize their own well-being

I am a Certified Professional Coach, a member of the International Coaching Federation, an ELI-Master Practitioner, a Certified Trainer in the Invitation to Change Approach, and a Certified CRAFT Peer Coach trained by the Partnership to End Addiction—where I have been recognized as a Gold Star Coach.

There is hope. You are not alone. Let’s take the next step together.

Coach Mentors

Coach-Mentors is a program that provides practical help for adolescents, young adults or adults who are either currently in outpatient treatment or returning home from an out-of-home placement. We help clients put into practice the therapeutic goals they are working on treatment. Working collaboratively with treating clinicians and programs, we augment the work being done in the office/program and help our clients take action and implement their therapeutic goals in their everyday lives.

Comfort Zone Camp

Comfort Zone Camp is a nonprofit bereavement organization that transforms the lives of children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, primary caregiver, or significant person. Our programs are free of charge and include trust-building activities and age-based support groups that break the emotional isolation grief often brings. Comfort Zone’s programs are offered to children ages 7-17, and their families for the family programs, plus we offer young adult programs for 18-25-year-olds.

Conquer Addiction

Conquer Addiction was created as a result of our family’s searing journey trying to find our daughter the help she needed to recover from severe alcoholism.  As we’ve talked with other families during and after these scary years, we’ve learned that most of us were forced to rely on chance conversations and blind luck to find help for our sons and daughters.  With a disease in which second chances are never guaranteed, this is totally unacceptable!

Families and individuals in crisis need to be able to easily find rehabs that can prove via independent outcomes research that the treatment they’re providing actually helps patients recover.  When we first created this directory in 2015, we discovered that there were only five rehabs in the entire U.S. who were effectively following up with their patients after treatment and willing to share their results!  That shocking result launched Joanna on a multi-year quest to build a research company to help rehabs cost-effectively measure their post-treatment outcomes.

Today, dozens of progressive rehabs are measuring and working to improve the effectiveness of their treatment.   With immense gratitude to the addiction treatment community that played such a critical role in helping Karina recover, Joanna and Karina converted Conquer Addiction, Inc. into a nonprofit and officially launched this website and directory in June 2020.

As the need for practical research addressing key decisions and challenges individuals entering addiction treatment face, three additional addiction treatment experts joined Conquer Addiction’s Board of Directors in October 2021.