For educational consultants placing students into post-residential coaching, Level-Up Life covers the part of the file that's usually thinnest: the 12 to 18 months after discharge. Our work spans every independent-living domain, it's professionally supervised, and it comes with a research-active founder and outcome data you can actually quote. Think of this page as the reference you reach for when you want to evaluate us or hand it to a family.
Level-Up Life runs a structured 12 to 18 month coaching engagement built for the post-discharge window, where most placements quietly come undone.
Every active case is supervised by Ryan Roberts, CMHC, a research-active founder who publishes as first author in ADHD and executive functioning.
Scope covers academics or work, sleep, nutrition, finances, calendar, social functioning, and emotional regulation, worked on together.
If we're not the right fit, we say so on the first call and route the family back to you.
The post-discharge window is where most placements quietly fail, and it tends to be the thinnest part of the file. We exist to make it less thin.
Four things separate this program from the open-ended hourly coaching most ECs keep on their referral list, and they're worth walking through.
The first is professional supervision on every engagement. The second is a research-active founder. The third is the shape of the engagement itself: a structured 12 to 18 month commitment, not open-ended hourly coaching. The fourth is a coordinated model that keeps you in the loop.
Ryan Roberts, CMHC, our Clinical Director, supervises every active case. The coaches deliver the direct work while Ryan and the program directors stay in case consultation behind the scenes, so when something touches a clinical edge, we recognize it and route it appropriately.
Ryan publishes as first author, co-directs an active research lab, and teaches research methods at the university level. That means the program keeps evolving with the literature instead of locking in one approach for a decade.
This is a structured 12 to 18 month commitment, not open-ended hourly coaching. The cadence is front-loaded early, the scope reaches every independent-living domain at once, and the duration is calibrated to how long those skills actually take to become habits.
Over the course of an engagement, our team stays in contact with the residential discharge team, the family's prescribing provider, and you, so you keep up with case direction and outcomes without having to chase anyone for updates.
Rather than curating testimonials, we publish program-level metrics tracked across our active caseload. The numbers are in the Outcome Data section below.
There are no contracts. Families stay because the work is helping, not because they're locked in. If we're not the right fit on that first call, we'll say so and point you toward someone who is. ECs tell us that's the most useful thing we do.
This program is built for exactly the population your residential and wilderness discharges turn into by week three. Our Treatment Transition Coaching page covers the full structure; what follows is the EC-relevant summary.
The engagement runs 12 to 18 months. Most of the way through, the cadence is two to three sessions a week, and the early weeks often run 10 or more hours once you add up coaching, family work, and case-coordination calls. Scope covers every independent-living domain in parallel: academics or work, sleep, nutrition, finances, calendar and time use, social functioning, emotional regulation, and all the daily-living skills the residential program assumed someone else was teaching.
Three of our coaches sit at program-director level on this service, each with direct post-residential lived experience: Madison Troop (5 years in outdoor behavioral healthcare), Joshua Sandberg (3 years in residential settings), and Jackson Smith (residential work with teenage boys, including students who arrived resistant to coaching). We feature all three rather than naming a single director, because the right coach pairing really does depend on the student. Ryan supervises across all three.
Most engagements are remote, which suits this population well, since the modality mirrors the independence the student is rebuilding. In-person is limited to families in Utah Valley and the Salt Lake metro, and for those families it's often the right call during the early weeks right after discharge.
Rather than curating testimonials, we publish program-level metrics tracked across our active caseload. Here's what they look like.
by students following the active coaching plan.
across the active caseload (sessions attended, between-session work completed, data submitted on schedule).
across active engagements.
who have referred to us say they wish they'd known about Level-Up Life sooner.
What you won't find is a single headline "success rate" for post-residential coaching, and that's deliberate. The population is too heterogeneous for one rollup number, which would obscure more than it reveals. So we track adherence, weekly goal attainment, and satisfaction instead, because those are the leading indicators we can measure honestly. We're happy to walk you through how we collect any of these figures on a call.
This is the credential trail most ECs reach for, and it's a big part of why our referral relationships stick.
Ryan is an ADHD researcher with an emphasis on life transitions, academics, and executive functioning. He works to continually publish to support other experts in the field and directs a research lab. He also teaches research methods and counseling courses at Utah Valley University. Level-Up Life remains at the forefront of empirically backed approaches to helping students and keeps evolving with the literature instead of locking in one approach for a decade.
Here's why that matters in the referral context. Most coaching practices draw their authority from years of practice, which is real authority and we respect it. But it isn't quite the same as the authority that comes from actively generating the literature the field relies on. Ryan does both. And the program runs the way he does research: look at what's actually happening before assuming what's wrong, test it against data, and recalibrate the moment the data says something different.
So a referral into Level-Up Life lands with a professionally supervised practice that publishes its own work and reads everyone else's. When you brief a family on why you're recommending us, the credential trail is short and easy to verify. You'll find Ryan's full background on the About page.
We've kept this deliberately simple, because EC time is the real constraint and you shouldn't have to manage a complicated handoff.
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There are three paths, depending on how you like to work. The first is a warm introduction: email our intake team at support@level-uplife.com with the family CC'd. The second is direct scheduling: send the family our consultation booking link with a note that you referred them. The third is a joint scoping call, a three-way conversation with you, the family, and our team, which works well when the case is complex or the discharge timing is tight.
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It's a 15 to 30 minute phone call where we listen to what's going on and explain how our program can fit the family's situation. We're direct about fit, so if we're not the right call, we'll say so and route the family back to you rather than enrolling someone we can't help.
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With the family's consent, we stay in touch with you throughout: a brief case-coordination email at the start, an update at the 60-day mark, and a proactive heads-up whenever scope or circumstances shift materially. If you'd prefer a different cadence, just ask and we'll accommodate it.
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Post-residential coaching is $250 per hour, with a 10% prepaid package rate. Our pricing is public and matches exactly what families see on our pricing page, so you can quote it accurately during placement conversations.
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We don't pay them, period. A practice that pays for placements has a built-in reason to keep families in chairs longer than the work warrants, and we'd rather not. The IECA and HECA professional standards point the same direction we do.
If you're weighing Level-Up Life for a current placement, the fastest path is a 15-minute professional intro call. No family on the line, no sales pitch, just a substantive conversation about how the program works and whether it's the right call for the case in front of you.
For introductions or referral questions, call or text (385) 327-0717, or email support@level-uplife.com. We'll respond within one business day.
The two most relevant reads are our Treatment Transition Coaching service page and the Failure to Launch pillar, which covers the population most ECs see at intake. The executive functioning coaching and ADHD coaching pages cover the modality the program is built on.
