WHO WE WORK WITH: FAMILIES WITH SOMEONE IN TREATMENT
Your loved one is in treatment. Nobody is working with you.
The weeks they are inside are weeks your family can use. When nobody uses them, discharge day arrives with no plan.
The weeks they are inside are weeks your family can use. When nobody uses them, discharge day arrives with no plan.
Use these weeks to do your own work and to build the plan for the day they come home. The treatment center is treating your loved one, not your family, and the family piece often falls to you.
Epic Journey Recovery has a separate clinical team for the family, and Preston Durnford works with the family directly. So you are not sitting at home waiting for a weekly update call. You get somewhere to put the fear and the questions you have stopped asking out loud. You also start deciding practical things while there is still time. What the house looks like when they get back. Who they see in the first week. If those decisions wait until discharge day, they get made in a parking lot.
Because discharge is a handoff, and handoffs are where things get dropped. The treatment center's responsibility ends when your loved one walks out the door, and the structure that was holding the days together ends at the same hour.
Preston spent 11 plus years owning and operating treatment centers. 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. He knows what discharge day looks like from the inside. If your loved one leaves in two weeks and there is nothing planned past the ride home, that is worth a conversation now rather than later. A plan made before discharge is a different thing than a plan made after something has already gone wrong.
No. Epic Journey works alongside people who are in treatment and keeps going after they leave.
It is not a facility. There are no beds and it is not a licensed treatment provider. It is a private, cash pay coaching practice based in Newport Beach, California, built around privacy and discretion instead of insurance billing. What it adds is continuity. Programs end and staff change. Preston stays the same person before, during, and after, and so does the team around him, about 12 people including coaches, holistic practitioners, functional medicine, a neurologist, a psychiatrist, and licensed therapists. If a higher level of care is ever needed again, Preston coordinates it and stays in the picture.
There is a 90 day core engagement where the intensive upfront work happens with the full team. Most people stay up to about six months.
After that many taper to roughly one session a week, ongoing, and they usually stay with whichever team member they connected with most. It is not a rigid program with a fixed end date. Most of the work is virtual because it is convenient and that is how most clients work. In person is available across Orange County, and at the higher package tier some clients fly out for the retreat or the team flies to them. The core engagement includes Preston directly multiple times a week and a licensed therapist multiple times a week, plus hourly sessions as needed.
Most clients pay hourly or through set packages. Start with a confidential consultation.
No. There is still time to start building the first 30 days and to get the family side going before the car pulls up. Book a free consult and Preston will tell you what is realistic from where you are standing today.
There is nothing to compete over. Epic Journey Recovery is not a facility, has no beds, and is not a licensed treatment provider, so it works alongside the center while your loved one is inside and continues after they leave. Preston owned and operated treatment centers for 11 plus years, so he talks to clinical staff in their own language.
No. Epic Journey Recovery is cash pay and does not bill insurance or work in network. It is built around privacy and discretion instead of insurance billing, and it is a coaching practice, not licensed treatment. Most clients pay hourly or through set packages.
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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