Epic Journey is a private recovery coaching practice, not a facility and not a VA program. We are not VA affiliated, we do not bill the VA or insurance, and we will not pretend otherwise.
No. Epic Journey Recovery is not affiliated with the VA, not VA approved, and not in network with the VA or any insurance carrier. It is a private, cash pay recovery coaching practice based in Newport Beach, California, and it is not a licensed treatment provider or a facility. There are no beds.
We say that plainly because veterans get enough vague answers. If you want care covered by your VA benefits, the VA is where that happens. Epic Journey is a different thing. It is built around privacy and discretion instead of insurance billing, so the work does not run through a claims process. You pay directly, and the plan gets built around you rather than around what a payer will approve.
Veterans in the program work with Preston Durnford directly multiple times a week, and with a licensed therapist multiple times a week plus hourly sessions as needed. The clinical side includes blood work, QEEG brain mapping, a functional medicine workup, and psychiatry coordinated when appropriate.
Behind that is a team of 12: Preston plus coaches, holistic practitioners, functional medicine, a neurologist, a psychiatrist, and licensed therapists. Family is not an afterthought. There is a separate clinical team for the family, and Preston works with the family directly.
The work is virtual first and available nationwide, with in person sessions across Orange County plus meetups and retreat experiences. Length of engagement is individualized. Nobody gets slotted into a fixed program.
You work with Preston Durnford, the founder, who has been sober for over a decade and has personally led more than 500 interventions. He built and ran clinical operations for a subacute detox center, a primary mental health program, and a dual diagnosis outpatient program in Southern California, then sold them.
He has operated treatment centers for over 11 years, so if a higher level of care is ever needed, he coordinates it rather than leaving you to sort it out alone. Service connected trauma, the grind of transitioning back to civilian life, and whatever else you are carrying do not fit in a checkbox, and nobody here will ask you to make them fit.
If that is what you have been looking for, book a confidential consultation.
No. Epic Journey is cash pay and does not bill the VA or any insurance carrier, and it is not VA approved or in network. The practice is built around privacy and discretion instead of insurance billing.
Yes. Epic Journey is virtual first and works with clients across the country, with in person support available throughout Orange County. In person meetups and retreat experiences are part of the program as well.
Length of engagement is individualized. There is no set program length and no standard timeline, because the plan is built around what the person actually needs. That gets decided in the consultation, not in advance.
Veterans usually want to know the shape of the commitment before they agree to anything. The core engagement is 90 days, and that is when the intensive work happens with the full team. Most people stay up to about six months, and after that many taper to roughly one session a week, ongoing, usually with whichever team member they connected with most.
It is not a rigid program you graduate from. The 90 days are front loaded on purpose, because that is where the assessments, the clinical work, and the family work carry the most weight.
Most of it is virtual, because it is convenient and that is how most clients work. Some clients fly out for the retreat, or the team flies to them, which is the higher package tier. In person is also available across Orange County. Most clients pay hourly or through set packages, and Epic Journey is cash pay, not a facility. If you want to talk through the fit, book a free consult.
About 12 people. It is Preston plus coaches, holistic practitioners, functional medicine, a neurologist, a psychiatrist, and licensed therapists, and collectively they have decades of experience. Preston will tell you most of his team has as much or more operating experience than he does.
Preston Durnford founded Epic Journey in 2014. He has been sober over a decade, spent 11 plus years owning and operating treatment centers, personally led more than 500 interventions, and wrote The Epic Journal, which has sold more than 30,000 copies. He built and ran a subacute detox center, a primary mental health program, and a dual diagnosis outpatient program in Southern California, then sold them.
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