Independent Living and Adaptive Skills in West LA

Adulthood does not arrive on a single day. It is built slowly, in skills like cooking a meal, organizing a calendar, managing a household, navigating an apartment lease. Our independent living and adaptive skills program is built for the young adults and adults across West LA who are working - often bravely - to claim more of that independence for themselves.

We partner with neurodiverse young adults, individuals living with mental health diagnoses, and adults adapting to a new diagnosis or life change. Whether your goal is learning to manage medications, building executive function for college, cooking comfortably for yourself, or simply feeling safer and more capable at home, our team designs a plan around what actually matters to you.

Sessions take place where life happens - your kitchen, your bedroom, the local coffee shop, a Santa Monica grocery store, the bus stop on Wilshire. Because that is the only way new skills actually generalize.

Families and caregivers are welcome partners in the work, and we offer family coaching as part of every plan so the people around you can support without taking over. For job readiness, return-to-work, and career goals, see our dedicated Vocational Skills program; for real-time social coaching, see Social Skills.