Build a sober lifewithout leavingthe one you've built
Private, one-on-one recovery coaching for executives, public figures, athletes, and professionals. Whether you are leaving treatment or recognizing that alcohol or substance use is interfering with your life, relationships, health, or performance, Karen provides private support tailored to your lifestyle, helping you build lasting recovery without stepping away from the life you’ve worked hard to create.
Credentialed, trained, and accountable.
- CASAC
- CRPA
- CARC
- CPI
- MAT
Built for individuals who value privacy, discretion, and personalized support.
Karen works with individuals in two distinct situations. Some are returning home after treatment and want personalized support to strengthen and sustain their recovery in everyday life. Others recognize that alcohol or substance use is affecting their overall life, but are unable to step away from their careers, families, or responsibilities to seek support. In both cases, recovery is built around the life they already have, with the same level of privacy, discretion, and individualized guidance.
Executives & Professionals
Continue leading while you do the private work of staying well. Sessions arranged around your calendar, your travel, and your need for discretion.
Executive recoveryPublic Figures & Athletes
Recovery support delivered with the discretion, flexibility, and accountability required by individuals whose lives are lived in the public eye.
Public figures & athletesFamilies
Quiet guidance for spouses, parents, and adult children. Support for the whole household, whether a loved one is leaving treatment or getting sober without ever stepping away.
Family supportAn alternative to rehab, and the coach for after it.
Recovery is not built during treatment alone, it is built in everyday life. Karen provides the guidance, accountability, and one-on-one support that helps clients create lasting recovery, whether they are just beginning the process or returning home after treatment.
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One-on-one coaching
A consistent, trusted, and honest relationship.
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Executive recovery support
Built around real professional demands: board seats, deal cycles, travel, and constant visibility.
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Accessible wherever life takes you
Private coaching by phone or Zoom, designed to fit seamlessly into your schedule, not the other way around.
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Long-term accountability
Continuity measured in months and years, not sessions. Someone in your corner well past the first ninety days.
Recovery Thrives on Consistency, Structure, and Accountability
A small number of clients at a time, no more than five per three-month cycle.
Each private coaching investment is a committed engagement built around your life, not a single session.
Foundation
90 days
Immediate structure and accountability.
Continuity
6 months
Protect and deepen progress while returning to full life.
Concierge
12 months
Ongoing high-touch private partnership.
Every recovery journey begins with a confidential conversation.
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A discreet first conversation.
A private call to understand your situation and whether working together is a fit. No obligation.
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A plan built around your life.
Karen shapes the work around your career, travel, family, and need for discretion, wherever you are starting from.
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Ongoing private coaching.
Regular one-on-one sessions by phone or video, on your schedule, for the length of your program.
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Long-term continuity.
Support that continues across months and years, well past the first ninety days.
Confidential aftercare, and an alternative to residential treatment
Karen takes referrals in two situations: clients leaving a treatment program who need aftercare, and clients who need a private, confidential alternative to residential treatment.
In both cases she works one-on-one and in complete confidence, helping clients build structure, accountability, and sober support into everyday life.
Refer a client
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Contact Karen directly by email or phone.
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Share the client's preferred contact method and any consented discharge context.
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Karen will follow up privately to discuss fit, timing, and support needs.
Three decades of recovery, and a career built on discretion.
Karen Vitale is the founder of SoberLife-Coach LLC, a private, confidential recovery coaching practice for individuals navigating alcohol or substance dependency. With over 30 years of personal sobriety and extensive professional training, she brings a rare level of insight, empathy, and discretion to her work.
She works with clients who are sustaining demanding careers, family lives, and reputations while they do the private work of staying well. Her experience alongside professionals in media, athletes, entertainment, and executive leadership gives her a firsthand understanding of the pressures that often accompany success.
Before this work, Karen built a distinguished career in film, television, and sports media. As a former award-winning television producer and one of NYC's first female broadcast videographers, she brings deep insight, discretion, and trust to the work she does today.
Quiet results, from people who needed them to stay quiet.
I've gone to two rehabs. My therapist referred me to reach out to Karen before trying to get sober by going to yet another rehab. With Karen's help and commitment, I am sober today and live a sober life.
Karen is an amazing coach and an amazing person with boundless knowledge and energy. She has gone well beyond helping me start and maintain sobriety by providing advice and counsel in many areas of my life.
Not only has Karen helped me get sober, but she also supported my family during the process. Fortunate to have been referred to her.
Karen literally saved my life. I met her at my lowest point, and she made me feel comfortable immediately. She is an incredible listener. I didn’t believe her when she said I could get sober and feel better within 90 days, but she was right. She was there for me whenever I needed her, with no extra charge for calls or texts. It was like doing rehab from home. Ten months sober, I am transformed: I have found purpose, my marriage is better, and my life is renewed.
Conversations on recovery, in her own words.
Karen speaks on podcasts and in interviews about recovery, sobriety, and supporting high-performing people who cannot step away from their lives.
- June 29, 2026
The Day I Almost Quit
TURNING PAIN INTO HER PURPOSE.
Karen on turning her own recovery into the work of helping people get sober without stepping away from their lives.
Karen is available for podcasts, interviews, and speaking about recovery and supporting people who cannot step away from their lives.
What to expect, plainly.
How does coaching work?
Karen provides private, structured support built into your real life: regular one-on-one sessions, accountability, and a plan for staying sober through work, travel, and family. For some clients that means getting sober without ever leaving home. For others it means making the progress from treatment hold.
How is this different from rehab or therapy?
Karen is a recovery coach, not a rehab and not a therapist. For clients who cannot step away for thirty to ninety days, she is a private alternative that builds sobriety into a working life. For clients leaving treatment, she is the ongoing relationship that turns a discharge plan into a life that holds.
Is it confidential?
Yes. Working with Karen means dealing directly and only with Karen. Your inquiry reaches her, not an intake team or a shared organizational system, and she reads and responds to every message herself. That is a level of personal discretion an institution cannot match.
Who does Karen support?
Karen works with executives, professionals, public figures, athletes, families, and referral partners. That includes people getting sober without stepping away from their lives, and people who need discreet support after leaving treatment.