Alongside AdvisorsWho we are
Alongside Advisors is a private recovery advisory firm in Delray Beach, Florida, working across South Florida and New York and by video anywhere. We are recovery advisors and coaches, led by founder Felipe Olmeta, who help people and families through treatment and the life after it. Here is who we are, the standards we hold and what an Advisor does.
Our Advisors
Every Advisor below has met the standards we publish on this page. Each is listed with their credentials, the discipline they bring to coaching, and the length of their own recovery, so you can see who you would be working with before the first call.
Miami to West Palm Beach
Lead Advisor
Career and purpose. Financial fitness. Daily structure.
In recovery since 2013
Founder of Alongside Advisors. Recovery Coach Professional with fifteen years in institutional real estate operations, most recently as a chief operating officer in Manhattan and a senior director of operations in Florida.
Wellness and Recovery Advisor
Health and wellness. Physical training and nutrition. Daily structure.
In recovery since 2019
Worked in residential addiction treatment in Palm Beach County from 2020 to 2024, starting as a technician at HEAL Behavioral Health and rising to Director of Housing and acting Director of Operations at Seacrest Recovery Center. From 1998 to 2008 he was a live sound engineer in New York's Broadway district, working productions from The Lion King to Elton John and multiple Fashion Week shows at Bryant Park. A lifelong restaurant professional and passionate guitarist turned NASM Certified Personal Trainer, he coaches clients on training, food and the daily routines that give early recovery something solid to stand on.
Hudson Valley, Westchester and Fairfield County, and by video
Recovery Advisor
Recovery advising. Family recovery coaching. Transition home and early recovery support.
In recovery since 2015
Founder of Wayfinder Recovery Coaching in Putnam County, New York, where she works with individuals facing addiction and mental health challenges and with the families around them. A trauma-informed coach who coordinates closely with therapists, physicians and family, she covers northern Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties and Fairfield County, Connecticut, in person, and works by video anywhere.
Family and Recovery Advisor
Family recovery support. Recovery coaching for executives and professionals. Rebuilding career, relationships and purpose.
In recovery for more than 30 years
Founder of MK Recovery Coaching and author of Recovery Coaching: A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions, the first published book devoted to recovery coaching. A former President of Recovery Coaches International and recipient of the Vernon Johnson Award from Faces & Voices of Recovery, she coaches executives, professionals and the families around them, and has trained recovery coaches across the country. She works with clients by video nationwide.
Independent licensed professionals
When a plan calls for therapy, psychiatry or family work, it is provided by independent licensed professionals under their own license and consent agreements. Advisors coordinate with them. They never replace them.
Clinical Partner
Addiction and relapse prevention. Anxiety and depression. Family systems.
Senior clinician for more than ten years at a Manhattan outpatient substance use treatment program, where he led intensive outpatient groups, relapse prevention and early recovery programming and taught dialectical behavior therapy. In private practice since 2015 and now based in Boca Raton, he works with individuals and families at every stage of readiness to change.
From the founder
I was born in Colorado and grew up in more places than most people visit: Venezuela, New York City and its suburbs, Tulsa, Montana, Vermont and South Florida. Moving that often teaches you to read a room quickly and to start over without flinching. It did not teach me how to stay sober.
I attempted college three times before I first got serious about sobriety in 2005. After treatment in Minnesota I moved to Delray Beach and spent almost two years in a halfway house. I did the work, and it held long enough for me to go back and graduate. But I needed more help than a sober date and a diploma, and I never knew where to go for it. I struggled to launch a career. I struggled to get to meetings regularly. Eventually I picked up again, and lost the better part of five years.
In December 2013 I started over, and this time I knew exactly what I had to do. The first attempt was not a total loss. It had shown me precisely where the gap is: between getting sober and building a life that makes sobriety worth protecting. I finished an executive MBA and earned certificates from New York University in real estate development, construction management, financial analysis and sustainable design. I left New York as chief operating officer of a family-owned $2 billion portfolio: 200 buildings and 4,000 apartments in Manhattan. When my family and I came back to Florida in 2023, I joined the state's largest office owner as senior director of operations, overseeing corporate functions across 20 million square feet.
I tell that story because the sequence matters more than the titles. Sobriety came first. Structure, purpose and work came next, and they are what made the sobriety hold.
Alongside Advisors exists to fill that gap, deliberately and early, for people who are where I was in 2005. I hold the Recovery Coach Professional credential, with additional coaching certifications in grief, trauma and ADHD, and I keep training. I have surrounded myself with Advisors who are the best I can find at what they do, each with a discipline of their own, for people in early sobriety who want a career, a direction and a life they would choose, whether that means a first career, a return to one, or a change.
Felipe OlmetaFounder and Managing Member
Our standards
Qualified for the service
Every Advisor is properly credentialed in the discipline they coach, and that credential is shown with their name below. Where the law requires a license for any part of the work, the person doing that work holds it.
Established sobriety
Advisors who draw on their own recovery hold a minimum of five years of continuous sobriety, verified by references. The team is led by an Advisor with more than ten years of continuous sobriety, and its combined recovery experience exceeds twenty years.
Multiple pathways
We support multiple recovery pathways, and we look for Advisors whose own routes into recovery differ, because the client's path will be their own.
Licensed mental health care
When a plan calls for therapy, psychiatry or family work, it is provided by independent licensed mental health professionals we partner with, under their own consent agreements. Advisors coordinate with them. They never replace them.
Recovery touches every part of a life, so our coaching does too. Each Advisor brings a primary discipline alongside their recovery training, and we match that discipline to what you want to work on.
Where coaching goes
Career and purpose
Returning to work, changing direction, earning a license or credential, and preparing for the conversation with an employer.
Financial fitness
Budgets, bills and obligations put in order, and the everyday habits that make money feel manageable again.
Health and wellness
Nutrition, physical training, sleep and the routines that steady the body while the mind does its work.
Daily life
Schedules, household administration and the practical skills of living independently, on your own terms.
Family and relationships
Rebuilding trust, setting boundaries and finding your footing with the people who matter, new relationships included.
How it is customized
01/We listen
What you want your life to look like, what has gotten in the way, and what you are looking for in an Advisor.
02/We match
From the Advisors available, we choose for the skills, temperament and style you ask for, so the fit serves your goals.
03/One lead
A Lead Advisor runs your plan, coordinates the team and remains the person you call.
04/We adjust
Support moves up or down as life does, from daily and in person to a weekly session by video.
In person across South Florida and New York. By video, anywhere.
Why we exist
Sobriety is the foundation, not the finish line. We stay involved until the life a client is living is one they would choose for themselves.
An Advisor is a member of our team dedicated to empowering clients to build a sober and fulfilled life. Much of what we advise on is applying the tools clients built in a monitored recovery setting to living on their own. Advisors make sure clients have what they need, whether that's coping skills, career coaching, or guidance on living a sober life. We also work with some of the best resources in the field and can recommend outside clinical care or other specialists.
Each Advisor helps their client structure the week, with morning and evening check-ins and an end-of-week review. Throughout the week, Advisors meet with clients to work toward goals they set together.
Many of our Advisors bring years of their own long-term recovery, along with a professional skill set.
Alongside is not a babysitter. We are a resource to empower and grow.
Advisors are available for non-clinical transportation, travel companionship, accompaniment to daily events or appointments, in-person or virtual coaching, and short-term live-in support.
"Advisor" is our professional title. It is not a license, certification or registration of any kind. Advisors do not act as therapists, counselors, physicians, attorneys, accountants or investment advisers, and they do not diagnose or treat any condition. Clinical care, when a plan calls for it, comes only from the licensed professionals described below.
Three ways an Advisor shows up
01/Transport
Getting there safely. Private, accompanied travel to treatment, home from treatment and to the commitments in between, door to door.
02/Companion
Someone at your side. In-person support at home, at work or on the road through the moments that carry the most weight: the first weeks home, a family event, a business trip.
03/Coaching
Building what comes next. Regular sessions, in person or by video, that turn good intentions into structure, habits and goals you can measure.
A private conversation
Call or text . Confidential from the first call.
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