Guidance for Mental Health Recovery
Resources for individuals, families, clinicians, and learners
About Wise Recovery
Wise Recovery offers expert, compassionate guidance and practical tools to support mental health recovery. Created by a psychiatrist with personal experience of mental illness, it provides clear navigation guides, relevant educational materials, and interactive workshops for patients, families, clinicians and learners.
The Wise Recovery Framework
Our teaching and guiding model provides a clear structure for understanding the elements of mental health recovery and how it takes shape in real life.
Understanding
Making sense of experiences and goals as a foundation for recovery
Alliance
Building authentic connection and collaboration to strengthen recovery
Navigation
Sustaining recovery as life and circumstances change
Programs
Recovery-oriented offerings for individuals, families, and organizations
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Recovery continuity from hospital to home — beginning with guided books for patients and families and designed to expand to care teams.
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Live educational workshops that help patients and families understand recovery, the mental health system, and how to communicate effectively during care.
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Recovery-oriented education for organizations, including curriculum development, staff training, and practical implementation across settings.
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Practical, stand-alone guides designed to help people navigate common recovery challenges—such as finding care, understanding treatment, and moving forward in daily life.