My Journey: From Surviving to Guiding

Hi, I’m Prairie Yana.

I’m a Substance Use Disorder Counselor and Recovery Coach dedicated to helping people create meaningful, lasting change from the inside out. My work brings together professional training in addiction and behavior change with lived experience and a whole-person approach to recovery.

I’m also an accredited Health & Wellness Coach, Career & Life Planning Facilitator, Certified Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, and Energy Healer. These disciplines have shaped the way I understand healing—not as simply changing a behavior, but as learning to understand yourself, regulate your nervous system, reconnect with your values, and build a life that feels aligned with who you are becoming.

But before I held any of these titles, I was simply a young woman trying to find her way through pain, survival, unhealthy patterns, and some very deep questions about who I was and who I wanted to become.

That journey is at the heart of the work I do today.

I know what it’s like to change the behavior and discover there is still more underneath it. And I know that recovery can become something much bigger than what we stop doing—it can become an opportunity to understand ourselves, break long-standing patterns, and intentionally create what comes next.

I grew up in a home shaped by addiction, instability, and poverty. From a young age, I learned what it felt like to carry more than a child should—emotionally, energetically, and even spiritually. By the time I was a teenager, I had already lived through more than most adults, but something inside me kept seeking. I wanted healing. I wanted hope. I wanted to rewrite the script.