Join the Recovery.com Contributor Network

Recovery.com is the leading global platform for finding trusted mental health and addiction treatment. Each month, millions of people engage with Recovery.com across its websites and media platforms to search providers, compare options for treatment, read recovery resources, interact with community content, and connect directly with quality treatment.

We know that it takes a community of experts to be able to share quality information that serves people where they are, sometimes at their most vulnerable. We need your help to make Recovery.com the best place on the internet to find mental health and addiction treatment, content, original research, and media.

Somewhere right now, someone is searching for the exact thing you understand better than almost anyone. You've spent years building that knowledge through training, clinical practice, or living it yourself. The Contributor Network is where you put it to use, in front of millions of readers, listeners, and viewers who are looking for exactly what you know right now.

You know things that could change someone's life. Say them where someone's listening.

What Is the Contributor Network?

The Contributor Network is a community of clinicians, experts, and people with lived experience in recovery who want their knowledge to reach further. You bring the expertise. Recovery.com connects it with readers who are actively looking for answers, often at the exact moment they need them most.

Contributors come from every corner of the field: therapists, physicians, case managers, peer support specialists, researchers, and people further along in their own recovery who've learned things worth sharing.

How You Can Contribute

There are several ways to get involved, and you don't have to pick just one:

• Quote Contributor: Weigh in on articles written by the Recovery.com team. When a topic matches your specialty, you'll hear from us. Your contribution includes your personalized Recovery.com author page with your photo, name, brief bio, and a link back to your website.
• Podcast Guest: Join an episode of a Recovery.com podcast, including flagship shows like RECOVERable, to talk through your area of expertise. Your appearance includes your photo, name, and a link to your website on the web page linked to the episode.
• Other Content Opportunities: As new formats and innovations in recovery media come together, from written features to video, you'll be considered for those too, based on your area of expertise and experience.

Check out these Contributor Network guests featured on the RECOVERable podcast:

The Power of Human Storytelling

A statistic about treatment outcomes can inform someone, but does it move them to pick up the phone and get help?

A person describing what withdrawal actually feels like, or what it takes to rebuild trust with their kids, does. That's why storytelling sits at the center of everything the Contributor Network creates, whether it's a data-backed article you've added a quote to, or a full podcast episode built around your expertise.

Research on narrative and health communication backs this up. A meta-analysis of health communication studies found that narratives significantly influence beliefs, attitudes, and behavior, with the strongest effects coming from audio and video storytelling.¹ Separately, research on stigma reduction has found that hearing directly from people with lived experience of addiction and mental health conditions reduces the desire for social distance and increases belief that treatment works, more effectively than education alone.²

You'll see this approach across the site already. Some contributors share a personal recovery story directly. Others bring their clinical lens to a conversation, by weighing in and providing quotes on some of the most searched topics. On the RECOVERable podcast, host Terry McGuire sits down with experts who bring both credentials and candor to the most talked about addiction and mental health conversations. On Recoverycast, Brittani Baynard and influential guests share powerful, real-life mental health and addiction recovery stories. Each episode spotlights relatable journeys shared by influential voices, from struggles and setbacks to moments of resilience, hope, and healing.

Contributors don't have to choose between being the expert and being the person with the story. Often, we are both, and that combination is exactly what makes a piece resonate with our wide-reaching audience.

Whatever your story is, and however you'd like to tell it, there's a format here that can work for you.

What You Get Out of It

However you choose to contribute, you can expect:

• Visibility. Your name and work in front of the Recovery.com audience, shared on Recovery.com's LinkedIn page, and potentially in major publications too. Every LinkedIn feature is yours to reshare, so your network sees it as well as ours.
• SEO benefits. Backlinks to your site that support your search rankings.
• Credibility. A stronger case for yourself as a trusted voice in the recovery community, built on real examples and your unique experience and expertise.

How to Get Started

1. Fill out the Contributor Network form. Complete the form with your background, expertise, credentials, a headshot, a short bio, and your areas of specialization.
2. Wait for review. Our team reviews every application and follows up by email, either with a welcome or with next steps.

Every expert who joins the Contributor Network adds something the recovery field genuinely needs: a credentialed voice willing to be visible about it. Whether that means a two-line quote in an article, a guest spot on RECOVERable or a LinkedIn feature reposted to your network, each contribution reaches someone at a moment when clinical knowledge alone wouldn't have been enough to move them.

You know what recovery takes. Help someone else find their way there. We’d be honored to have you be a part of the team!