About Us

A Different Way to Experience Recovery

Recovery should be more than simply surviving the day. It can be a return to curiosity, to expression, to the quiet spark that makes life feel alive again.

Within our warm, creative studio in Downtown East Austin, peer-led, one-on-one coaching and community-based support provide the space to slow down, explore, and rediscover who you are beyond the patterns you’re leaving behind. Grounded in lived experience, empathy, and genuine human connection, creativity becomes an open door – an invitation back to joy, purpose, and belonging, free from pressure, performance, or perfection.

Passion Driven Lifestyles

Recovery Rooted in Autonomy, Connection and Creativity.

Peer-led support grounded in lived experience

Real understanding from people who have walked their own recovery paths.

Creativity as a doorway to healing

Art, expression, and curiosity help reconnect you with meaning and possibility.

Individualized, relationship-centered care

No rigid formulas—support shaped around your needs, goals, and story.

Identifying meaningful connection and places you’ll thrive

Spaces where connection replaces isolation and growth happens together.

Our Team

Compassionate
Peer Professionals

At the heart of New Obsession is a team of compassionate, peer professionals who bring lived experience, creative insight, and deep empathy to their work every day. We are coaches, mentors, artists, and advocates – united by the belief that recovery is not just about stopping harmful patterns, but about rebuilding a life that feels meaningful, expressive, and authentic.
Skye Hilton, RSPS, PSS, Founder and Owner at New Obsession.

Skye Hilton, RSPS, PSS

Founder + Owner

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Skye Hilton, RSPS, PSS

Founder + Owner

Skye Hilton is a multidisciplinary artist, Certified Recovery Support Peer Specialist (RSPS), Peer Specialist Superver (PSS), and the founder of New Obsession, a creative recovery coaching company designed to bridge the gap between treatment, independence, and lived transformation.

With a BFA from Pratt Institute and nearly a decade of experience producing live music and gallery events, Skye brings a strong visual and experiential lens into the recovery space. Her work is rooted in lived experience and grounded in real-world application, helping clients not only stabilize, but build lives that feel meaningful, autonomous, and creatively self-directed.

Skye specializes in working with individuals navigating substance use disorder recovery, life transitions after treatment, and the often-overlooked practical challenges of rebuilding. Her approach blends peer support, creative process, and systems navigation to help clients strengthen identity, develop life skills, and reclaim agency. She is particularly skilled at supporting clients in building financial literacy, independent living skills, healthier relationships with self and others, and confidence navigating treatment programs and systems of care.

For treatment professionals, Skye serves as a collaborative partner, offering structured Creative Recovery Coaching, peer-informed curriculum development, and community workshops that complement clinical care. Her work is trauma-informed, strengths-based, and designed to extend support beyond discharge planning into sustainable, lived recovery.

In addition to her coaching work, Skye serves as a creative lead within sober community programming, producing immersive, substance-free experiences that reinforce connection, purpose, and belonging. Across all spaces she builds, her core belief remains the same: recovery is not just about surviving, it is about creating a life that feels fully inhabited, expressive, and self-owned.

Specialties

  • Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Recovery Support
  • Visual & 2D Creative Practices as Therapeutic Tools
  • Financial Wellness & Practical Life Skills Development
  • Building Independence & Autonomous Living
  • Relationship to Self & Identity Reconstruction
  • Navigating Treatment Systems & Continuum of Care
  • Transition Planning (Treatment to Independent Living)
  • Creative Community Workshop Facilitation
Richie Wall, Creative Recovery Coach and Director of Business Development at New Obsession.

Richie Wall

Creative Recovery Coach and Director of Business Development

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Richie Wall

Creative Recovery Coach and Director of Business Development

Ritchie Wall is a certified Recovery Support Peer Specialist (RSPS) and has been actively working in the Austin recovery community since 2018. Originally from Cleveland OH, Ritchie moved to Austin, TX in 2017 to work on his own mental health and addiction issues. As a person in long-term recovery, Ritchie understands the challenges of early recovery, striving to meet clients where they are at and supporting them in reaching their own unique goals; Ritchie believes in the importance of helping clients explore and pursue their passions as a pathway to discover purpose and direction in their own recovery journey. Outside of being a Recovery Coach, Ritchie holds a B.A. from The University of Akron in International Business and is also a full-time musician, passionate about creating and performing music.
Ashley Garrison, Creative Recovery Coach at New Obsession.

Ashley Garrison

Creative Recovery Coach and Studio Community Coordinator

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Ashley Garrison

Creative Recovery Coach and Studio Community Coordinator

Ashley is a dancer, gardener, and Recovery Support Peer Specialist. She is both a person in recovery from substance abuse and mental health challenges and the mother of a recovering teen. Drawing on that lived experience, she not only strives to help individuals find new meaning, purpose, and creativity in everyday life, she also supports parents as they navigate life with a child facing mental health or substance use issues. Ashley knows the vital role family plays in a young person’s healing journey and strives to bridge the communication gap between parents and their children and foster healthy boundaries.

She holds a degree in History and is insatiably curious. Her passions span roller skating, plants, music, Crown Victorias, fixing broken things, meditation, spirituality, philosophy, travel, knitting, and understanding how others see the world.

Ashley believes everyone has an inner dancer and an innate drive to move—a creative force waiting to be set free. While she doesn’t claim the title “artist,” recovery has revealed endless avenues for self-expression in her life. She hopes to help others tap into their own curiosity, discover hidden passions, and see that creativity isn’t limited to art—it’s everywhere, in everything.
Abbey Andarakes, Social Media Collaborator at New Obsession.

Abbey Andarakes

Creative Recovery Coach and Social Media Collaborator

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Abbey Andarakes

Creative Recovery Coach and Social Media Collaborator

Abbey Andarakes is a creative seeker who views life itself as an open, ever-unfolding canvas waiting to be explored and shaped. From early days immersed in music, writing, decorating spaces, and working with metal to her professional journey as silversmith, festival vending entrepreneur, creative director, wardrobe stylist, and social media/marketing specialist, she has always followed the pull of curiosity and authentic expression.

Her path into creative recovery is rooted in her active place within the recovery community, where she believes recovery offers the profound opportunity to consciously curate our lives; designing them in ways that keep us grounded, inspired, fulfilled, curious, and empowered. A devoted mother, steady meditator, trail runner, and lover of the outdoors, Abbey nurtures her ongoing seeker’s journey through movement, mindfulness, and creative play. She is thrilled to collaborate at New Obsession, co-creating to share the message and work that she has found central to the healing and happiness of not just others, but also her own.
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