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Concierge Recovery & Mental Health · Mind, Body & Spirit · Private & Mostly Virtual
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5.0 Google Rating · 1,000s Helped Over 11+ Years
Concierge recovery, built around your whole life.
Private, virtual recovery coaching. No facility, no rehab, no putting your life on hold.
A private, concierge program for high-functioning people quietly struggling with addiction, mental health, or both. Preston and a hand-picked team, the best in their fields, rebuild the five things that hold a life together, around your mind, body, and spirit.
Private, cash-pay engagements, held in complete confidence. Mostly virtual, in person across Orange County.
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Recovery coaching with Epic Journey: this is what the work actually looks like.
Not stock photos. Real clients and real trips, from the water in Laguna to Joshua Tree under the stars, life rebuilt on purpose.
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The framework
Five things hold a life together. We rebuild all five.
Addiction and depression take a life apart one piece at a time, so recovery can't stop at getting sober. Everything we set up, the team, the brain work, the experiences, is built around these five, the things that make a life worth staying for.
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Friends & Family
The people who love you are exhausted too. Relationship and family counseling, interventions, and rebuilding the bonds addiction wore down, because the people who love you need healing as much as you do.
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Spirituality
Meaning and purpose, in whatever form is yours, faith or simply connection to something larger.
F
Fitness
The body drives the mind. Personal training, nutrition, functional medicine, bloodwork, and a QEEG brain scan, so you understand your own biology and exactly how to heal it.
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Finances
Career, money, and independence. Whether you're rebuilding from nothing or running a company, we get the practical side of life working again, so your recovery has something solid to stand on.
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Fun
Experiences so good you stop wanting to escape. Nature, travel, and adventure, built into the work on purpose, so real life finally beats the one you're leaving behind.
The goal of all of it: B.Y.O.B. Be Your Own Best Bud.
Is this you?
This isn't rehab. And it isn't only about addiction.
Some people do need treatment first, real detox and stabilization, and if that is you we will say so and place you with vetted partners. Most people we work with are past that point, or were never there.
Start with treatment if
- You're in active addiction and need to detox safely
- You need medical stabilization or round-the-clock supervision
- Getting sober on your own hasn't been possible yet
If this is you, we'll tell you honestly and place you with the partners we trust. It's the right first step, and it's where a lot of our people begin.
Epic Journey is for you if
- You have some time sober, or never needed detox
- You're functioning on the outside, struggling underneath
- It isn't only addiction, it's your mind, your body, your life
- You want the whole picture handled: biology, brain, relationships, purpose, and spirit
- You want the real work without disappearing from your life
Private, concierge, and built around every part of your life, not instead of it.
Pricing & options
How much does it cost to work together? Three ways, one program.
Every engagement is built around your whole life. What changes between the three is how much time you get each week. Cash pay, with payment plans available.
For getting started
The Foundation
Custom Pricing
Length tailored to you
Structure and real accountability, built virtually around your week.
- 2 virtual sessions a week, built around your schedule
- Weekday text and voice access, plus a monthly family check-in
Most Chosen
The full program
The Concierge
Custom Pricing
Length tailored to you
One-on-one with Preston, your whole life rebuilt around you.
- 3 sessions a week one-on-one with Preston, plus the full clinical team
- QEEG brain mapping, functional medicine workup, and psychiatry when appropriate
The full experience
The Flagship
Custom Pricing
Length tailored to you, plus a week together
Everything in The Concierge, plus a full week here with Preston.
- Everything in The Concierge, plus a week in person in Newport or Laguna Beach
- The Joshua Tree retreat with Preston and facilitators
Every tier starts with the same free, confidential call, we build the exact plan together once we know your situation. Travel and lodging for the Flagship week are arranged separately; we're happy to help you find the right place.
The team
Epic Journey's care team: you don't just get a coach, you get the best in every field.
Most programs give you one person. A concierge engagement gives you a hand-picked, multi-specialty team, coordinated by Preston, so every part of you is handled by someone who is genuinely excellent at it.
Founder & Lead
Preston Durnford
Over 11 years working one-on-one with hundreds of clients directly, and with thousands more across his treatment centers and professional network, plus 500+ successful interventions. Built and sold multiple behavioral-health treatment centers. Your single point of contact and quarterback.
Neuroscience & QEEG
Dr. Andrew Hill
Peak Brain Institute. Quantitative EEG brain mapping, so your plan is built on how your brain actually functions, not guesswork.
Psychiatry
Partnering Psychiatrist
Board-certified. Evaluation, diagnosis, and medication management when it is the right call, coordinated privately.
Functional Medicine
Functional-Medicine Physicians
Bloodwork and biology: deficiencies, hormones, gut and sleep, the physical drivers of how you feel, measured and addressed.
Nutrition
Nutritionists & Dietitians
Contracted specialists who build the fuel and the habits that keep the body, and the mind, steady.
Holistic & Somatic
Holistic Practitioners
Breathwork, somatic therapy, bodywork, and energy work, brought in to reach what talk therapy alone can't. Vetted, and matched to you.
Counseling & Mentorship
Counselors & Mentors
Addiction counselors for the daily clinical work, plus lived-experience mentors who have walked it and come out the other side.
Access & modalities
Virtual and in-person recovery coaching, wherever you are, we bring the work to you.
Most of the program is private and virtual, so you do the real work from wherever your life already is. When something is best done in person, we come together on purpose.
Virtual, nationwide
One-on-one across the United States and select countries. Completely private, from your home, your office, or the road.
In person when it counts
Based in Orange County for face-to-face work, plus expeditions and the retreat, so the journey is never only a screen.
Virtual + Local
Optional · EducationalKetamine Therapy
Coordinated with licensed providers. Virtual ketamine across the country, or in person locally, woven into the wider plan.
Plant Medicine
Never required, and not part of every journey. For those it is right for, done legally with vetted partners, with real focus on the neuroplasticity and integration.
How it works →Biology
Functional Medicine & Peptides
Bloodwork, hormones, gut, and sleep, addressed at the source, so the body supports the mind instead of fighting it.
Brain
QEEG Brain Mapping
With Dr. Andrew Hill and Peak Brain, your plan is built on how your brain actually functions, not guesswork.
Epic Journey is a private coaching and advocacy practice, not a licensed medical or treatment facility; every clinical modality is delivered by vetted, licensed partners we coordinate on your behalf. Cash pay, with payment plans available, so cost is never the reason you wait.
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Real families. Real clinicians. Real people in recovery. We let our work, and the people we've walked with, speak for us.
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What people say
Google reviews for Epic Journey Recovery: trusted when it mattered most.
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"Epic Journey Wellness is doing incredible work in the recovery and mental health space. They helped change one of my employees' lives and I can't recommend them enough for their professionalism and integrity."
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Donny Marshall
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"Preston is doing incredible work with Epic Journey Wellness and leading the recovery and mental health space. I 100% recommend them, they helped change my friend's life around."
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Mariah Emerald
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"Epic Journey Wellness isn't just about recovery. It's about building a life you actually want to live."
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Real lives · real recovery
Real life in recovery: a life worth being sober for.
Skydiving. Surf. Snow. Sand. Joshua Tree under the stars. Real people, real connection, real growth. This is what the work actually builds.
What we do
A full clinical team, in your corner.
One person quarterbacks everything, before treatment, during, and the rebuild after. In person across Orange County, virtual care nationwide, so you can stay in your career and your family while you do the real work.
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1-on-1 Recovery Coaching
Direct, ongoing mentorship with Preston and the team. The person you call at 2am and the person who holds the plan.
Explore → 02Professional Interventions
Calm, expert-led, and confidential. 500+ successful interventions with 24 to 48 hour mobilization anywhere.
Explore → 03Therapy & Psychiatry
A vetted network of licensed therapists and psychiatric providers, matched to your plan and coordinated for you.
Explore → 04Functional Medicine
Heal the body, not just the behavior. Labs, nutrition, and root-cause care through our clinical partners.
Explore → 05Plant Medicine Education
Honest, research-informed guidance and integration through licensed providers. Education first, always.
Explore → 06Treatment Placement
When a program is the right call, we place you with vetted facilities we trust. PPO and HMO insurance accepted.
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See all 12 services & how it works →
Our core work is an individualized plan for mind, body, and spirit, with length tailored to you: 1-on-1 coaching with Preston, the retreat with facilitators, an individualized treatment plan, doctor and therapy setup, family support, and team quarterbacking. We also work hourly and offer smaller packages sized to your needs. Cash pay. PPO and HMO accepted for treatment placement only. Exact pricing is laid out transparently on your free consult.
Why this is different
Not rehab. Not talk therapy. Built around you.
A therapist sits with you for an hour and talks about your feelings. We do something different, and after over 11 years and thousands of people, we know it works.
- ✓Earned experience, not theory. Preston has seen what actually works, again and again, across 11+ years and 500+ interventions.
- ✓We build, we don't just talk. Active, hands-on work, side by side, not an hour on a couch.
- ✓We build your life like a custom home. You pick the materials, we design it together. First we fix the internal pieces, then we build a life that is genuinely beautiful to live in.
- ✓Not rehab, not a program. No disappearing for 30 days, no groups. Virtual anywhere in the country, in person across Orange County. Stay in your career and your life while you do the real work.
- ✓You, and a whole team. Direct 1-on-1 access to Preston, plus functional medicine, therapy, psychiatry, brain mapping, and retreats coordinated around you. Mind, body, and life.
*Ready to talk? A confidential consultation with Preston is free.
Preston Durnford
Founder, Epic Journey
About Preston
Preston Durnford's own recovery story: this work is personal.
I am the founder of Epic Journey Recovery, a concierge coaching practice in Newport Beach. I am sober over a decade. Before this I built and ran a subacute detox center, a primary mental health program, and a dual-diagnosis outpatient program in Southern California, then sold them.
I lost my father to suicide in 2015 and my brother to a fentanyl overdose in 2019. Recovery has never been theoretical for me. It is the work of my life.
I have worked one-on-one with hundreds of clients directly, and with thousands more across my treatment centers and professional network, built and sold multiple treatment centers, led 500+ successful interventions, and built Epic Journey around something this industry rarely does, telling families the truth and walking with them all the way through.
Your coaching team
You work with Preston, and a team who's lived it.
Keisha Simon
Recovery Coach, Epic Journey
Meet Keisha
Meet recovery coach Keisha Simon: lived experience, real education, real work.
Keisha Simon brings nearly four years in recovery and a rare mix of lived experience and formal credentials.
Her coaching is forward-focused and judgment-free. Whole-life work across recovery, relationships, family, health, and purpose, with faith-based support when you want it. She rebuilt her own life from addiction and incarceration, and now helps others do the same.
Meet Preston
Preston Durnford on video: hear it in his own words.
A few minutes with Preston is usually all it takes to know if Epic Journey is the right fit.
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Stories & conversations
Media appearances and podcasts: heard alongside experts.
A few of Preston's most notable conversations. Click any to watch in-page, or see the full library.
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A life worth building
"That is the life recovery built for me. And that is the life I help my clients build for themselves."
Preston Durnford, Founder of Epic Journey
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A 5.0 rating from verified Google reviews.
Real families. Real clinicians. Real people in recovery. The reviews speak for the work.
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Questions & answers
Most asked, answered.
Pricing, insurance, what we treat, how the engagement works, and what makes Epic Journey different. The full answer set lives on the FAQ page.
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Questions, answered
Concierge recovery, explained.
What is concierge addiction treatment?
Concierge recovery coaching is a private, cash-pay model built around one point of contact and full discretion, without a facility, beds, or insurance billing. It is an alternative to inpatient treatment for people who need to keep working and stay out of a formal program.
Does virtual addiction treatment actually work?
Virtual addiction treatment works well for the right person. One-on-one virtual coaching keeps support consistent week to week, without stepping away from your career or your family.
How is concierge recovery different from rehab?
Rehab is a facility you check into for a set period. Concierge recovery comes to you and stays with you and your family before, during, and after, and coordinates the right treatment when it is genuinely needed. It is built for high-functioning people who cannot disappear for thirty days.
Who is Epic Journey's concierge program for?
High-functioning people, founders, executives, and professionals quietly navigating addiction or the mental health underneath it.
What does concierge recovery cost?
Concierge recovery costs vary because it is a private, cash-pay program. Every plan is built around your specific situation and team, so the exact investment is discussed directly and confidentially on your call.
Take the next step
Book a confidential consultation: you don't have to figure this out alone.
One call. Honest answers. A clear path forward, whatever you decide to do next.
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Book a Confidential Call
Pick a time on the calendar below. Private, confidential, and directly with Preston.
Step 02
Talk directly with Preston
We talk through what is actually happening and what you have already tried.
Step 03
Get a clear plan
You leave with honest answers and a real next step, even if that is a referral elsewhere.
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