If you’re between 18 and 25 and trying to stay sober while finishing school or starting a career, the hardest part is often the hours nobody supervises. Higher Purpose Recovery pairs structured sober living in Orange County with an evening virtual IOP, so your days stay yours and your recovery still has a schedule.
Our homes sit in Fountain Valley and Westminster. Your clinical care happens online, from the house, on a HIPAA-compliant platform. Higher Purpose Recovery is accredited by the Joint Commission, ID #709594.
There are two parts, and they’re deliberately separate.
The housing. You live in one of our Orange County sober living homes, men’s or women’s, with residents who are also in recovery. Housing gives you an abstinent environment, a curfew, shared responsibilities, and people who notice when you go quiet.
The clinical program. Treatment is delivered through our virtual IOP, with groups Monday through Thursday in the evenings. Programs typically run 6 to 12 weeks. Evening scheduling is the point: you can hold a class schedule or a job during the day and still get real clinical structure at night.
Keeping the two separate is what lets the model work. The house is a place to live, not a treatment facility, and your therapy happens with licensed clinicians on a secure platform.
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Sober living tends to help most in the stretch right after structure disappears. You may be a fit if you’re 18 to 25 and any of this sounds familiar.
If that reads like your situation, admissions can walk you through fit and next steps in one call.
Higher Purpose Recovery is mental-health first. Most young adults who come to us are working on a mental health condition, with substance use either alongside it or in the background.
Structure plus skills practice, so avoidance has less room to grow. Living with a routine and a curfew gives you daily reps between sessions.
House routines build behavioral activation into ordinary life, chores, meals, and meetings you're expected at, while therapy handles the harder work.
Trauma-informed care is our central specialty. A predictable living environment lowers day-to-day reactivity, which makes trauma work more tolerable.
For young adults managing mental health and substance use together, the house handles abstinence and accountability while the clinical program handles the underlying condition.
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All clinical services are therapist-led, trauma-informed, and delivered on a HIPAA-compliant platform.
House rules exist so the home stays safe for everyone in it. Ours are straightforward.
The curfews are stricter than most 22-year-olds would choose. That’s the point. Predictable evenings are where early recovery either holds or doesn’t.
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Home |
Residents |
City |
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La Roca |
Women |
Fountain Valley, CA 92708 |
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Los Reyes |
Men |
Fountain Valley, CA 92708 |
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Caltech Circle |
Men |
Westminster, CA 92683 |
Because clinical care is virtual and statewide, you can start the program from anywhere in California and move into an Orange County home when a space is ready. Admissions confirms current availability.
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A short conversation about what's going on, what you've already tried, and whether this model fits.
We check your benefits for the clinical program and tell you plainly what we find.
A clinician reviews your mental health history, substance use history, goals, and current challenges, then builds your treatment plan.
If a home is the right call, we coordinate your move-in, orientation, and house rules.
You join the evening virtual IOP, Monday through Thursday, from the house.
Bring a photo ID, your insurance card, a current medication list, and any recent discharge paperwork. Having those ready makes the first two steps move faster.
These are two different questions, and conflating them is how families get surprised.
The clinical program. Insurance is where virtual IOP coverage lives. We work with major providers including Cigna, Aetna, Anthem, Blue of California, TRICARE, and Magellan Health. Coverage depends on your specific plan, so the only honest answer comes from running your benefits. We’ll do that for you.
The housing. Most health plans don’t reimburse sober living rent, because a recovery residence is housing rather than medical treatment. Plan on housing as a private-pay cost and on insurance as something that applies to the treatment you attend while you live there.
We don’t publish a rate on this page because the right number depends on which home and which level of clinical care. Admissions gives you the current figure on the call, with no obligation.
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Our clinicians use trauma-informed approaches for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and complex trauma.
You get virtual IOP anywhere in California plus supportive-housing help in Orange County.
We work with major providers and verify your benefits during intake.
You keep work, school, and family life while getting real clinical structure.
Accreditation ID #709594, a recognized standard of care quality.
Our clinical office sits on Pacific Coast Highway in Corona Del Mar, a short drive from the 73. The sober living homes are inland in Fountain Valley and Westminster.
Higher Purpose Recovery
2737 East Coast Hwy, Suite B, Corona Del Mar, CA 92625
Phone: 949-844-3813
We work with young adults across Orange County, including Fountain Valley, Westminster, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, and Anaheim, and with clients statewide through the virtual program.
Our young adult programming serves ages 18 to 25. The sober living homes are gender-specific rather than age-specific, so you’ll live alongside other adults in recovery while your clinical programming is geared to your stage of life.
No. A sober living home provides housing, structure, and accountability. It isn’t a treatment facility and doesn’t provide clinical services on site. At Higher Purpose Recovery, your treatment happens through the virtual IOP while you live in the home.
Most plans don’t cover the housing itself, because it’s housing rather than medical care. Insurance more often applies to the virtual IOP you attend while living there. We verify your benefits and tell you what your specific plan covers.
Yes, and it’s the reason the schedule is built the way it is. Groups meet Monday through Thursday in the evenings, so daytime classes and jobs stay intact.
Virtual IOP typically runs 6 to 12 weeks, adjusted to your progress. Length of stay in the home is set separately and discussed with admissions.
Yes. Residents take a nightly breathalyzer and random urinalysis testing. Complete abstinence from alcohol and drugs is required, on and off property.
Fountain Valley and Westminster, in Orange County. Our clinical office is at 2737 East Coast Hwy, Suite B, Corona Del Mar, CA 92625.
The virtual IOP is available statewide across California, so you can begin treatment from where you are and move into a home when a space opens up.
This content is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Higher Purpose Recovery’s virtual programs are not emergency or crisis services. If you’re in crisis, call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or call 911.
Kosta is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that has worked with various populations in a range of inpatient and outpatient treatment environments in acute psychiatric care, substance abuse, primary mental health and co-occurring disorders. Kosta has extensive clinical leadership experience, managing multiple programs and clinical teams with up to 30 clinicians. Kosta’s experience has provided him with a knowledgeable understanding into the workings of residential and outpatient programs and the dynamic needs of the industry. Kosta is committed to providing clinicians with a work environment in which they can share their passion and express their creativity, as he believes this will lead to a standard of excellence in client care.
