Behavioral Health Peer Support Services
Peer support is a cornerstone of the recovery journey, offering a unique form of encouragement and understanding.
Sharing experiences with those who have walked a similar path can provide invaluable insights, comfort, and a sense of community. In these connections, individuals find solace in knowing they are not alone and gain strength from the collective wisdom and empathy of their peers.
Through shared stories and mutual support, peer relationships foster healing, growth, and resilience on the path to wellness.
Our Services
One-on-One Peer Support
Peer support is voluntary, self-directed, strength-based, mutual, and individualized. Lived experience varies from person to person. Beautiful Minds Recovery peer support specialists have their own lived experience in navigating addiction, mental illness, disability, grief and/or trauma.
Peer supporters can also provide resource navigation, distraction to help get through a tough time, a space to vent, help getting basic needs met, assistance building a self written crisis plan, or more.
There are many different drug and alcohol support groups available to provide encouragement and accountability as part of addiction treatment and aftercare.
Beautiful Minds Recovery will offer support groups within our client base, or we can support you attending other groups, such as common 12-step groups. Attending support groups during and after treatment for drug or alcohol addiction can help a person maintain their sobriety. Often group recovery settings provide positive peer support and accountability to keep from using.
No one treatment works for everyone. We will help individualize your program to better meet your needs.
Support Groups
Personal Recovery Planning
Creating a personal, written recovery plan is important for several reasons. First, it gives you a blueprint to follow. It provides a structured, reliable source of good ideas to get or keep you on track as you pursue your recovery goals.
It can be all too easy to forget or avoid commitments if they are merely ideas that are being held in your mind. This is especially true if you become stressed, if you experience a break in your motivation, or if you find yourself facing temptation.
The Importance of Self-Care in Recovery
Self-care helps you to stay on your path to recovery. If you have a substance use disorder, you probably have used alcohol and/or drugs to escape stressful things or emotional pain.
With self-care, you nurture your mental and physical health so that you reduce your chances of turning to drugs or alcohol to cope. By physically and mentally feeling your best, you can also work toward your full potential. Self-care in recovery includes doing things to keep you feeling your best as well as fostering positive and supportive relationships.
Who We Are
Beautiful Minds Recovery was established in 2023 and is owned and operated by state licensed Certified Peer Support Specialists Bill Deavel and Zac Cannada.
Peer Support Specialists (also known as Recovery Coaches in some areas) have a unique perspective different from other behavior health professionals. We have lived experience that we are able to share with our clients in an empathetic and meaningful way that promotes recovery, hope, and stability. We currently provide services in Butte-Silver Bow and Missoula Counties.
Owner / Operations Manager / Project Manager
Bill has 15 years of living in his substance use and mental health challenges, homelessness, and other trials due to the lifestyle that he lived. He has been in recovery for the past sixteen years. When he first started his recovery journey, and was working with a peer support specialist at Valley Cities Behavioral Health Care in Washington, Bill attended a peer support training class that mimicked Washington state’s peer training. He continued his training and earned his peer support certification in the state of Washington. His first peer support job was in Butte, Montana working for Western Montana Mental Health Center, where he worked for seven years. He also spent four years working for Montana’s Peer Network where he developed the mentoring program, and developed several trainings for the company. Bill has also been involved in Montana state legislative session since 2017, advocating for peer support.
Today he is a husband and father, a business owner, and an active member in his recovery community. Beautiful Minds Recovery is his dream that has become a reality due to dedication, commitment, hard work and a great business partner. Recovery is possible for anyone.
Bill Deavel, CBHPSS
Owner / Peer Support Services Lead
Zac Cannada has been working in behavioral health as a Certified Peer Support Specialist in Montana since 2020, with a primary focus of working with adults, families and parents struggling with substance use and navigating systems. In 2021 he became the First Nationally Certified Peer Specialist in Montana. Zac has worked with local Missoula agencies such as Western Montana Mental Health Center, Partnership for Children and Partnership Health Center. In 2022 he received the “Comeback Parent of the Year Award” from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. As a person in long-term recovery himself, Zac knows through first-hand experience the challenges facing people struggling with addiction and mental health issues.
In addition to being a co-owner of Beautiful Minds Recovery, Zac is a single parent of a daughter and currently furthering his education to obtain a degree as a Licensed Addiction Counselor. He is a passionate advocate for recovery services at the local, county, and state level.
