Hello 👋 I’m glad you’re here…

I’m David Henzell. I’m a sobriety coach and addiction therapist, and everything on this page comes from that one place.

I spent years in the invisible space between “normal drinker” and “alcoholic.” I knew something was wrong. I wasn’t ready to admit it. I stayed stuck while pretending I had it under control.

When I finally got sober, I saw something that has shaped all my work since. There is almost no support designed for people in that gap. The recovery world assumes you are either fine or in crisis. The place where most people actually live, in between, goes largely unacknowledged.

Everything I do exists for that gap.

I believe in treating people as intelligent adults. That means honest accounts of what sobriety actually looks like, the messy and non-linear and human parts that rarely make the mainstream conversation. It means frameworks grounded in what works, not what is traditionally prescribed. And it means no dogma. Sobriety does not require you to adopt a belief system or fit someone else’s definition of recovery. Your path is yours. My job is to illuminate the terrain, not prescribe the route.

I’ve worked with hundreds of people navigating their relationship with alcohol, from the “I think I might have a problem” phase to the “I’m building the life I actually want” phase. I bring eight years of personal recovery and three decades of professional experience to that work. And I have been where you are. I know what it feels like to be stuck, and what becomes possible when you stop treating sobriety as punishment and start treating it as privilege.

Over the years that one commitment has grown into a few different things. They are all the same work in different forms.

Where to find each of them

Coaching. Working with me directly, one to one.

Solomon. An AI recovery companion I built, called Sol, for anyone who wants support in the moment.

Phenomenal. A sobriety programme and community for going deeper.

The Podcast. Speaking for Myself, where I think out loud about sobriety, identity and change.

Hiro. Audio worth sitting with.

Wherever you are with all this, sober-curious, moderating, building something, or just wondering whether it’s costing more than you’ll admit, you’re in the right place.

You’re not alone in this.