For 18 to 29 year olds who are living at home, off the rails, or out of school with nothing lined up. Structure and accountability without shipping them off to a facility.
We work with the young adult directly, several times a week, on what is actually going on. Preston Durnford meets with the client multiple times a week, a licensed therapist meets with them multiple times a week plus hourly sessions as needed, and the medical side gets tested instead of guessed at.
That includes blood work, QEEG brain mapping, and a functional medicine workup, with psychiatry coordinated when it is appropriate. Plenty of young adults at this age have been told to try harder without anyone checking what is happening in their body or their brain.
If you are the young adult reading this, that is the point. This is not a lecture series. It is a team of 12, and a schedule you have to show up for.
No. Epic Journey is not a facility, and there are no beds and no campus. The structure comes to them, inside their own life, while they work on school, a job, and a daily routine.
In person work runs across Orange County out of Newport Beach, and the practice is virtual first and available nationwide, so families outside California work with us the same way. Accountability does not require an airport. It requires someone who shows up several times a week and does not get talked out of things.
If a higher level of care is ever needed, Preston coordinates it and stays involved. 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, and he has operated treatment centers for over 11 years.
Parents get their own clinical team, separate from their son or daughter, and Preston works with the family directly. Epic Journey is cash-pay, nothing is billed to insurance, and it is not a licensed treatment provider.
You are not sitting outside the room waiting for updates. You get coached on what to say, what to stop paying for, and how to hold a line without losing the relationship. The practice is built around privacy and discretion instead of insurance billing.
Engagement length is individualized. Preston has been sober over a decade, founded this practice in 2014, and has personally led more than 500 interventions. If your family is in this spot, book a confidential consultation.
That is a common starting point, not a disqualifier. Preston has personally led more than 500 interventions, so the first conversation is often with the parents about how to get the young adult in the room at all. The family work can start whether or not he has agreed to anything yet.
No. Epic Journey is cash-pay and is not an insurance-billing provider, and it is not a licensed treatment facility. The practice is built around privacy and discretion, which is why nothing here runs through a claims file.
Yes. The practice is virtual first and works with families nationwide, with in-person sessions available across Orange County for anyone local to Newport Beach. Retreat experiences and in-person meetups are part of the model for out of state clients as well.
For a young adult, the first weeks are the ones that set the pattern. 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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