In-Home Intensives: The Household Blueprint

Whole-environment recovery support, stepping into the living, breathing system of a household in ways programs and providers only glimpse from a distance.

Make It

Recovery isn’t built in a therapist’s office. It’s built in the living room, the kitchen, the late-night arguments, the silences, and the daily routines that programs never see.

Families spend thousands of dollars on DBT, ACT, dieticians, psychiatrists, and year-long programs that meet once a week. But here’s the truth: those providers only know what your loved one says in session. They don’t know how they collapse when they get home. They don’t see the way the family walks on eggshells. They don’t see the fights that start at the dinner table, or the silence that follows when no one knows what to say. They don’t know your role, they don’t see how you respond to your environment and without that, giving you “distress resistance” tools can only get you so far.

That gap is why relapse happens. That gap is why progress falls apart. And that gap is where I work

In-Home Intensives are not about one person. They are about the entire environment.

I don’t just support the “identified client.” I enter the relational system, the couple, the parents, the siblings, the chosen family, the household itself. Because recovery is not sustainable if the environment itself can’t hold it.

 

What This Work Looks Like

My role adapts to your real life, not the other way around. All offerings are trauma-aware, spiritually grounded, and structured through the lens of ethical care.

 

    • One-on-one support for the client

    • Sessions with parents, partners, siblings, or whoever shares the household

    • Honest reflection of how the system actually works, not how people say it works

    • Naming the breakdowns in communication that everyone avoids

    • Helping couples, parents, and families set boundaries that stick

    • Supporting accountability without blame, so people can grow instead of spiral

    • Rebuilding routines around meals, sleep, and shared responsibilities

    • Addressing conflict and avoidance in real time, not weeks later in therapy

    • Creating practical systems that reduce chaos and strengthen recovery

    • Mapping how the home functions right now

    • Identifying the cracks that keep recovery fragile

    • Reshaping the blueprint so every person is accountable to lasting change

 
 

Origin Story

I didn’t come up with this idea in a boardroom. I came up with it while sitting in the driver’s seat, taking clients to their endless therapy appointments.

To the families I worked with, I was just a mentor. They didn’t know I was a therapist. They didn’t understand the depth of what I saw every day in their homes, the fights, the silences, the ways everyone avoided what hurt. Meanwhile, I was dropping their daughter off with psychologists and programs that only saw her for one hour a week. Those providers were building long-term plans without ever seeing how she actually lived once she walked through her own front door.

That gap, between what happens in a session and what happens at home, is where recovery either strengthens or falls apart. And nobody was filling it.

That is why I created In-Home Intensives.

Why This Matters

Traditional programs focus on individuals. Families think the work is being handled by professionals. But when the client walks back into their home, nothing has shifted. The household still operates from the same blueprint.

You can send someone to therapy three times a week, DBT group twice a week, and a psychiatrist once a month, but none of that changes what happens when they slam a door, skip meals, or shut down during a family argument. None of that changes the pressure cooker they return to every single day.

Without real-time accountability inside the home, recovery will not hold.

This is the difference. Therapists see fragments. I see the whole picture. Programs hear stories. I see the living reality. My work is not about replacing therapy, it’s about filling the gap no one else is filling, the one that actually makes or breaks recovery. Traditional therapy cannot do this, but as a therapist, I see that it is necessary so I am stepping outside of that space to provide what I know changes lives.

My Difference

I bring professional standards families expect, confidentiality, reporting, clear structure, but I also bring what the others can’t: presence in the environment itself.

This isn’t about checking whether one person is “in recovery.” It’s about asking:

  • Can this household support recovery?

  • Can this couple sustain honesty?

  • Can this family blueprint actually hold the weight of change?

I don’t just sit in the home. I hold up the mirror. I make the invisible visible. I create the accountability that programs and providers will never see from their office.

And that is why In-Home Intensives are not optional. They are the missing piece.

How I Work

This is not therapy, but I bring my full clinical training as a social worker into the room. I am a registered ACSW. I do not provide diagnosis, treatment, or documentation, but you benefit from my therapeutic lens, emotional skillset, and integrity-based presence.

This is:

  • Non-clinical, emotional, and relational care

  • Anchored in boundaries, spiritual ethics, and clear structure

  • Ideal for people who don’t want therapy, or have therapy, but know they need a different kind of support

I uphold the highest professional standards:

  • Confidentiality: HIPAA-aligned practices protect privacy

  • Documentation: Objective reporting of progress, goals, incidents, and concerns

  • Boundaries & Ethics: Clear professionalism, integrity, and sobriety at all times

  • Collaboration: Ongoing communication with families, case managers, and providers

But unlike most companies, I bring more than structure. I bring relational depth, cultural awareness, and a presence that clients actually trust. This is not about checking boxes. It is about guiding people back into who they say they are, one grounded day at a time.

Why Families Choose Me

Families choose me because I combine professional rigor with something rare in this field, tenderness, honesty, and relational attunement. I am not just supervising someone through a fragile stage. I am walking with them and their family, offering accountability and presence that sticks.

You’re not just getting a support person. You’re getting someone trained in systems, trauma, and transformation, who knows how to walk beside you without overwhelming, diagnosing, or abandoning you. As a clinically trained social worker and emotionally attuned companion, I offer (non-clinical) support that many people need, and don’t know is available.

This is how recovery grows beyond programs and paperwork. This is how people learn to live again.

Why now?

Because time matters. Every month a family spends stuck in the same patterns, those patterns harden. Every relapse, every blow-up, every silent dinner makes recovery feel further away.

Therapy and DBT can buy time, but they don’t change what happens in your home. Programs and providers only see an hour a week. Their program is a year long, and they don’t see it all. You meet with their teams, their dietitians, you take DBT and ACT zooms multiple times a week individually. Meanwhile, the real damage and the real opportunities for healing are happening every single day inside your household.

If you wait, the blueprint doesn’t just stay the same, it gets stronger. Families get more entrenched. Resentments grow. Hope wears thin.

This work matters now because it interrupts that cycle before it becomes the only way you know how to live. Real-time accountability today prevents years of revolving doors in treatment tomorrow.

 FAQs

  • It depends on what your household needs. Some families choose a few days, others a week or more. I come into the home for a set period of time, long enough to see the patterns clearly and begin shifting them in real time. Intensives are always customized, because no two households are the same.

  • Whoever makes up your environment. That might be a couple, parents, siblings, or chosen family. Recovery doesn’t live in one person, it lives in the system around them. Everyone who shares the space plays a part in shaping the household blueprint.

  • Therapists and DBT programs only see what happens inside an office or a group. I see what happens at the dinner table, in the morning routine, in the late-night arguments. Therapy helps people process, but it cannot hold accountability for how a family actually lives day to day. That’s what this work does. It fills the gap between therapy and real life.

  • Yes. However, what that looks like depends on your needs. While I am a therapist, in this capacity I do not offer traditional therapy and accompanying treatment plans billable by insurance. Therapy, psychiatry, and other providers are important, and this doesn’t replace them. What I do is make their work stronger by bringing the accountability home. Your therapist can’t see what happens when your child slams a door. I can. That’s the missing piece.

  • Yes. My work is grounded in evidence-based approaches, and I’ve trained in multiple modalities, including:

    • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

    • Motivational Interviewing (MI)

    • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

    • Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT)

    • Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)

    • Psychodynamic and trauma-informed care

    But here’s the thing: knowing these models is not what changes people. You can sit in a DBT group and talk about distress tolerance for a year, but if no one is helping you apply it in your kitchen at 11pm when you’re falling apart, it doesn’t hold.

    My work is about integration. I don’t pull out a manual and lecture you. I respond in real time, pulling from whatever approach actually helps in the moment. Sometimes that means using a CBT lens to reframe distorted thinking. Sometimes it’s motivational interviewing to break through resistance. Sometimes it’s relational work to shift how a family communicates. And sometimes, the most effective intervention is not a “technique” at all, it’s honesty, accountability, and presence when it matters most.

    Evidence-based practices are in my toolkit. But the real work is knowing how to use them in daily life, where recovery is tested.

  • Then we start there. Change often begins with one person being honest and willing. As I step into the household, the work shifts as others join, resist, or push back. That’s part of the blueprint too. Resistance is information, and we work with it.

  • I follow professional standards for privacy and discretion. Families share things that are hard to say in therapy, and I protect that. What I report to you is objective, routines, progress, breakdowns, risks, not gossip or judgment. The goal is accountability, not exposure.

  • If you’ve tried therapy, DBT, psychiatry, or programs and still find yourself stuck in the same cycles at home, yes. If you know the “identified patient” isn’t the only one struggling, yes. If you feel like your home keeps pulling recovery apart no matter how much support you layer on, this is the missing piece.

Investment

Every intensive begins with a 2-hour Blueprint Session.

This session includes:

  • A full household assessment (relational patterns, routines, risks, strengths)

  • Immediate guidance and accountability in the environment

  • A flexible treatment plan and written Household Blueprint (plans adapt as the reality shifts)

This first session sets the foundation and is required before any multi-day or monthly intensive.

Buy It

Pricing

Travel and lodging, if required, billed separately.

$4,500-$5500

3-Day Intensive

Includes:

  • One-on-one, family, couple, or household client support and accountability each day, every other day, or weekly (Frequency determined based on need)

  • Daily, or weekly family, couple, or household sessions

  • Observation and restructuring of household routines (meals, sleep, conflict patterns, mindfulness)

  • Real-time interventions during moments of stress or breakdown

  • Daily written reports and updates to family and/or treatment team

  • A customized Household Blueprint Plan at completion

  • Travel and lodging (if required) billed separately

$6,000-$9000

5-Day Intensive

Includes everything in the 3-Day package, plus:

  • Deeper restructuring of family communication and boundaries

  • Expanded household mapping to identify hidden cracks in the blueprint

  • Multiple accountability points per day (sessions + spontaneous check-ins)

  • Written progress summaries and clear recommendations for next steps

$9000-12,000

7-Day Intensive

Includes everything in the 5-Day package, plus:

  • Full immersion into the home environment for an entire week

  • Layered household restructuring across multiple relationships

  • Real-time accountability during daily routines, family interactions, and individual stressors

  • Comprehensive written Household Blueprint + step-by-step follow-up plan

Customized

Monthly Engagements

For some households, a short intensive is not enough. Monthly support creates ongoing accountability and restructuring over time.

Monthly intensives include:

  • The initial 2-hour Blueprint Session

  • A customized schedule of in-home days, tailored to your needs (from several days each week to full immersion periods)

  • Ongoing observation, intervention, and restructuring as dynamics shift

  • Weekly written reports and updated Household Blueprint Plan

  • Direct collaboration with treatment teams as needed

  • Flexible structure: intensives expand or contract based on what the household requires

Pricing for monthly intensives is customized.