Non-12-step addiction treatment practice at 8950 Villa La Jolla Dr, Suite A220, La Jolla, CA 92037, founded in 1985 by Dr. Tom Horvath — the president and co-founder of SMART Recovery (Self-Management and Recovery Training), which treats addictive behavior as a modifiable habit rather than a moral failing. That philosophical framework makes Practical Recovery the ideological opposite of the 12-step residential programs at La Jolla Recovery and Northbound Treatment Services, both of which incorporate 12-step facilitation into their clinical models. With 41 years of continuous operation, Practical Recovery is San Diego's longest-running private addiction treatment provider. The practice offers individual, couples, family, and group therapy alongside IOP and its signature IIOP (Individualized Intensive Outpatient Program), which compresses residential-level treatment intensity into a flexible outpatient format with 3-4 individual psychotherapy sessions per day — mostly delivered by doctoral-level providers. Patients in recovery whose persistent depression or anxiety fails to respond to the psychotherapy and medication available through Practical Recovery's outpatient model access TMS and Spravato protocols at Mind Bloom La Jolla on Silverado St, an interventional psychiatry clinic that also accepts PPO insurance.