First — which situation describes where you are right now?
PATH A
Someone is recommending a program or placement — and you haven't committed yet
A consultant, therapist, or school has suggested residential treatment, a wilderness program, or a significant diagnosis. You are in the decision window.
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PATH B
Your child has already been through a program — or is there now
The placement has happened or is underway. You are managing the transition, preparing for discharge, or navigating the first weeks home.
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What To Expect
$850 · 2 hours
In-home day + coaching block
Full-day family intensive - By clinical recommendation only
Ten Questions to Ask Before You Sign
The free guide for parents being asked to commit to a program, placement, or diagnosis. Take it into the next meeting.
STEP 1 · THE DECISION SESSION · $850 · TWO HOURS
For most families, it was never really a decision. It was a sweep.
This session is how you make it a decision.
Someone has recommended a residential program, a therapeutic boarding school, a wilderness placement, a new psychiatric diagnosis, or a significant medication change for your child. Before you sign anything, there is one conversation you need to have.
FORMAT
Two Hours
In-person or virtual
PRICE
$850
No sliding scale
BOOKING
Direct Calendar
Same-week availability
PREREQUISITE
None
No prior LLA required
WHAT THE TWO HOURS COVER
AREA 1
What is actually driving the behavior
Not the label or diagnosis that has been applied — the underlying dynamics, family system, and clinical picture as it actually presents.
AREA 3
What is missing from the conversation
Options that have not been presented. Less disruptive interventions that may be appropriate before a higher level of care is chosen.
AREA 2
A full map of the options
Every pathway on the table, examined honestly — relational cost, financial cost, what the research says about outcomes.
AREA 4
A direct clinical position
Not a hedge. Not a referral. A direct clinical read on whether the proposed intervention fits the actual problem — and what Dr. Drucker would recommend.
THIS SESSION IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF
A school, therapist, or consultant has recommended a residential program or placement
A clinician has recommended a significant diagnosis or medication change and you want to think before agreeing
You are days or weeks from a placement decision and no one has asked whether a less disruptive path is possible
You sense that something is being skipped but you cannot articulate what it is
A professional has referred you directly
If the session recommends parent treatment, know the true shape of that commitment now: a defined crisis block first, and for most families, ongoing weekly work after it. Nothing about this path is designed to be quick — it is designed to be honest.
Education consultants charge $5,000–$10,000 a month to help families find the right program. This session charges $850 to help families answer the question that comes before that one.
STEP 2 · IF THE SESSION RECOMMENDS PARENT TREATMENT
Your child will come home.
The question is whether you will be ready.
Working with Dr. Drucker is not choosing between treatment and no treatment. It is choosing to put yourself in treatment instead of putting your child in treatment — with a better clinical prognosis, and without the cascade of damage that institutionalizing a child causes.
THE TWO PHASES — BUILD THE PLAN, THEN HOLD IT
PHASE ONE
In-Home Intensive Day
A full clinical day delivered in the family home — in the environment where the problem actually lives. The day is where the assessment happens: the household, the patterns, and what is holding the problem in place.
You finish it holding the first draft of your parenting plan — the principles, the structure, and the beginning of the policies themselves. Built with you, not handed to you, and deliberately unfinished. You leave with the method and the work to carry on.
$10,000
PHASE TWO
Weekly Coaching Block
Where the plan gets finished, and where it gets held. Week by week, through the actual scenarios as they arise — the escalation on Tuesday, the conversation that went sideways on Thursday.
The harder half of this is not your child. It is the cost of holding a position you have never held before. Most of what happens in these sessions is keeping you steady in it.
Sold as a defined block — the arc gives the crisis work shape and direction.
12 or 24 sessions
$500 per session
Before You Decide
decision session
IN-HOME DAY
—
COACHING BLOCK
—
TOTAL
$850
90-Day Program
recommended
IN-HOME DAY
$10,000
COACHING BLOCK
12 × $500 = $6,000
TOTAL
$16,000
6-Month Program
complex cases
IN-HOME DAY
$10,000
COACHING BLOCK
24 × $500 = $11,000
TOTAL
$21,000
Residential Treatment
industry comparison
COST
$75,000-$150,000
Plus relational rupture, stigma, revolving door probability
TOTAL
Ongoing
AFTER THE BLOCK — IN PRACTICE
The ninety days resolve the crisis. They do not finish the work. Most families continue in weekly sessions after the block ends — not because something went wrong, but because this is the point at which the real work becomes possible. That phase is called In Practice.
In Practice is weekly parent coaching at $500 per session, booked as needed, with no fixed block, no package, and no defined end date. Families continue for as long as the work is useful and stop when it is not. It follows the crisis block and is introduced by Dr. Drucker inside the clinical relationship — it is not independently bookable.
HOW THE PLAN GETS BUILT
Your parenting plan is a list of policies. A policy is a commitment you make: what you will do, or will not do, in response to something your child does or does not do. Not what your child agrees to. What you commit to.
Every policy passes through six columns before it enters the plan, and the order is not optional. The first column is the value actually at stake. The second is the sentence most parents have never said out loud — and I am powerless to make my child share this value.
Only after those two does the work move toward a standard, then the specific expectation for this child, then the structure that enforces it.
Everyone wants to start at the last column. That is why this takes weeks rather than an afternoon, and it is why the plans hold.
Most parenting plans fail for two reasons, and they are the same reason twice.
The first: the plan starts at the consequence. Nobody named the value underneath it, and nobody admitted they cannot make their child share it. What gets written is a wish with a penalty attached.
The first: the plan starts at the consequence. Nobody named the value underneath it, and nobody admitted they cannot make their child share it. What gets written is a wish with a penalty attached.
The second: the enforcement depends on the child. If a policy only works when your child cooperates with it, you have not written a policy — you have written a request. Every enforcement structure in your plan has to be something you can carry out entirely on your own, requiring no participation from your child at all.
This is the difference between your parenting plan and the home contract most programs send home at discharge. The home contract is signed by the child as well as the parent, which makes it look as though the child is committing to something. He is not, and he cannot. He is not the party who wants this. A document built on his commitment has failed the first time he does not honor it.
Your plan is built the other way around. It assumes your child will not meet the standard. That is the condition it is written for, not the thing that breaks it — and it is where the learning happens, because what your child learns, he learns from watching you hold the structure the third and fourth and fifth time.
WHAT A SESSION LOOKS LIKE
Most weeks arrive as an emergency. Something happened, it felt unfair, and the question on the table is whether the plan should change.
A session works in a set order. First we hold the plan steady, because the moment a policy is being tested is never the moment to reconsider it. Then we clear what has been activated in you — your own reaction, and what it is actually about, which is frequently not your child. Only then can we see what your child is grappling with, which is usually not what she said.
Most of the work lives in the middle step. The plan is rarely the problem. Your capacity to hold it in a week when holding it costs you something — that is the problem, and that is what these sessions are for.
Changes to the plan do happen. They happen in a planning conversation, deliberately, on a calm day. They do not happen in the middle of a hard week.
STEP 3 · IF A FULL FAMILY INTENSIVE BECOMES APPROPRIATE LATER
FORMAT
Full-Day Family Intensive
All family members present. In the home or a designated location. A single intensive day. $10,000.
ACCESS
By Clinical Recommendation Only
Not available at intake. Not self-selected. Dr. Drucker recommends it inside the coaching relationship when she assesses the conditions are right.
Some families complete the session and decide independently. Some enter In Treatment. Some continue into In Practice, and some go further into the family intensive. All of these are right outcomes. Dr. Drucker has no financial interest in which path a family chooses — only in whether the choice is genuinely theirs.
$850 · Two hours · In-person or virtual · Same-week availability