Ryan Roberts built Level-Up Life because no one had built a program for the part that comes after the program. He'd spent years inside residential treatment centers, watching students do well and then unravel the moment the structure disappeared. That's the gap he set out to close.
Before he built Level-Up Life, Ryan Roberts spent years inside residential treatment centers, and he kept seeing the same thing. Students did well in the program. They hit their goals, graduated, walked out with a plan, and went home. Then, quietly, they fell apart the moment the structure disappeared.
It wasn't just academics, though that was usually the first thing parents noticed. What was really happening was the whole transition landing at once: cooking, sleep, money, friendships, emotional regulation, showing up for class, replying to emails, even remembering trash day. All of it, all at the same time. The residential program hadn't failed these students. The external scaffolding that had held everything together simply wasn't there anymore.
So parents started calling Ryan directly, watching their kid unravel three weeks after discharge with no idea what to do. Nobody had built a program for the part after the program, so Ryan built it.
Level-Up Life runs on one principle before anything else: look at what is actually happening, before assuming what is wrong.
The best way to explain what that means is the story Ryan tells, the one everyone on the team knows by heart.
A student was failing. His grades were collapsing, his attendance was tanking, and his mom was exhausted. The working theory was screen addiction. He was up until 5 AM most nights, so surely the phones and the games were the problem.
Ryan collected the data instead. He asked what was actually happening at 5 AM, and the answer wasn't what anyone expected. The student was the Dungeon Master in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign with friends spread across three time zones, and nobody had ever agreed on a start time. As the DM, he couldn't miss a session without the whole campaign falling apart.
He didn't need a digital detox. He needed to ask his friends to play earlier. They said yes, and he started making it to class.
It's a small story, and a true one. Almost every other program the family had tried would have worked the wrong problem. "Screen addiction" was a reasonable-sounding assumption that would have produced a reasonable-sounding plan, and none of it would have helped. Looking at what an actual Tuesday afternoon looked like turned a crisis into a scheduling conversation. Most of what we do starts with exactly that move.
Three things separate this program from most of the coaching industry, and each one came straight out of what Ryan saw inside residential treatment.
Coaches do the direct work with the student, while Ryan and the program directors stay in constant consultation behind the scenes. That way nothing falls through the cracks, and the moment a case touches something clinical, it gets recognized and handled appropriately. That level of clinical oversight behind a coaching program is genuinely rare. Here, it's the floor we start from.
Academic performance, emotional regulation, daily living skills, family dynamics, and physical health all get worked on together, by people who understand how they connect. Most coaching companies pick one lane and stay in it. But the students who need coaching the most are usually the ones whose lanes have already merged.
We earn continued engagement by demonstrating progress, not by locking anyone in. And if we're not the right fit for your family, we'll tell you so on the first call and point you toward someone who is.
Ryan isn't someone who read the executive functioning literature and built a program around it. He's someone actively generating that literature while running the program.
He holds a Clinical Mental Health Counselor license and an MBA, serves as adjunct faculty teaching research methods, and co-directs an active research lab. He's published as lead author on ADHD, executive functioning, academic accommodations, trauma, and crisis, and he's affiliated with both the APA and the ACA.
That research profile is the reason the program keeps evolving. Most coaching organizations lock in a methodology and defend it for a decade. We do the opposite: we adjust what we teach based on what current research, ours and the field's, says actually works. When new research shifts our thinking, we incorporate it. When a session doesn't go as expected, we document why. When a client's outcome surprises us, we treat it as something to learn from.
Level-Up Life is not a therapy practice, and we don't diagnose or manage clinical mental health conditions. When a student needs clinical care, we refer to Komi Counseling and Psychology, a separate entity that operates out of the same building at 2230 N University Pkwy, Ste 2C-A in Provo, Utah.
The two organizations share office space and a clinical culture, but they're distinct services. Coaching is coaching, and therapy is therapy. Plenty of our students work with Komi, or with an outside therapist, alongside their coaching, and we coordinate with the clinical team whenever it helps the student. We keep the two brands deliberately separate so no one is ever confused about which kind of care they're receiving.
Five commitments that show up in how we actually work, not just on a poster in the office.
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Before anyone gets a strategy, we look at the real daily life. Not the intake form, not what the last program said. What a Tuesday afternoon actually looks like.
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Students who struggle with executive functioning tend to carry a lot of accumulated shame by the time they reach us, and nothing useful happens while that shame is still in the room. So we name it, we soften it, and we move on to the work.
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No contracts, no annual commitments. Families stay because the work is helping, and they leave when their student is running the troubleshooting process on their own, which is exactly the goal.
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If we're not the right fit, we say so on the first call. We'd much rather refer you out and watch you succeed elsewhere than take on a family that won't get what they need from us.
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Ryan's research lab, the adjunct faculty work, the free monthly workshops, the steady publication cadence. The methodology evolves because the field evolves, and because we're paying attention.
Learn about our awesome team and feel free to schedule a free consultation with any of our directors should you have any questions.
If any of this sounds like what your family has been trying to find, book a call. A first conversation is just that: a conversation. No contract, no pressure, and an honest read on whether Level-Up Life is the right fit.
Call or text (385) 327-0717, or email support@level-uplife.com.
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