I'm the founder of Epic Journey Recovery, a concierge recovery coaching practice based in Newport Beach,
California. I've been sober for over a decade. Before starting Epic Journey, I built and ran the clinical
operations for a subacute detox center, a primary mental health program, and a dual-diagnosis outpatient
program in Southern California, and later sold those businesses. Epic Journey is not a licensed treatment
facility. It is a private, cash-pay coaching and advocacy practice, built around discretion instead of
insurance billing, working with founders, executives, and other high-functioning professionals.
Most people in this industry studied recovery from a textbook. I lived it, every side of it.
The loss of my father to suicide in 2015. The loss of my brother to a fentanyl overdose in
August 2019. The slow, brutal climb back. And then over a decade of building the kinds of
treatment systems I wish my own family had had access to when it mattered.
What is now Epic Journey started as Epic Transformations in 2014. The mission
was the same from day one, do something this industry rarely does, tell families the truth and
walk with them all the way through. Before treatment, during, and long after.
Over the last decade I have worked one-on-one with hundreds of clients directly,
and with thousands more across my treatment centers and professional network, spanning every corner of
the addiction and mental health world. High-level CEOs and the
founders behind companies I cannot name publicly (engagements private by agreement),
professional athletes, surgeons, attorneys. People coming home from prison and
people coming in off the street, rebuilding from zero. Families in crisis
fighting to hold a marriage, a child, a life together. Seven years working directly
with foster youth and partnerships with youth-recovery organizations like
Young Life. 500+ successful interventions that put
families back in the same room. Marriages brought back from the brink. I have
spoken on many stages about addiction, mental health, and what it actually takes to heal.
I have built and operated multiple treatment centers across Southern
California and in other states, including a subacute detox, a
primary mental health treatment center, and a dual-diagnosis
outpatient program. I sold both of my treatment centers and have consulted for
many of the leading programs in the region, building the operating systems behind detox,
residential, mental health, and outpatient care.
Working with people, working alongside business owners, and working with my team to help
others get their lives back is my passion. It is the through-line of
everything I have ever built.
What we have set up with Epic Journey is, honestly, unlike anything else in this space.
One trusted relationship, one engagement, and a coordinated full clinical team delivered
virtually behind you, licensed therapists (CBT, DBT, EMDR, IFS, somatic, trauma-focused),
psychiatrists for medication management, functional medicine doctors with lab-informed
protocols, holistic healers, ketamine-assisted therapy partners, nutrition coaches,
fitness specialists, couples and family therapists, plant medicine education, and career
and business coaching. All coordinated. All in one place.
Along the way I authored The Epic Journal, a daily practice journal
for recovery, growth, and resilience. It is now in more than 30,000 hands and used in treatment
programs and behavioral health practices across the country.
When you do coaching with Epic Journey, you are working directly with me. Same person, every
session. The work matters because I know what is on the other side of getting it wrong.
