Rite Passage is a non-clinical wraparound program for adults across the entire adult life span, from young adults launching into independence to older adults navigating a new chapter. There’s no one-size-fits-all plan. We help each person understand how their brain actually works, harness their strengths to navigate their weaknesses, and build the skills, structure, and support to live the life they want.
Schedule a Consultation I’m a Referring ProfessionalBased in Salt Lake City. Clients live in their own homes, not a residential program, and we work alongside each client’s existing care team.
We serve adults across the entire adult life span, with cohorts of young adults and older adults, so clients connect with people at a similar stage of life.
Executive-function challenges aren’t about intelligence, age, or effort. They show up as trouble with task initiation, sustained attention, time management, planning and prioritizing, working memory, emotional regulation, and follow-through. We meet people where they actually struggle and build the structure and skills to move forward.
You don’t need fixing. You need the right manual. Most of our clients have spent years being told to try harder. We start by understanding how they’re wired, then design around it, so the plan finally fits the person instead of the other way around.
Launching into school, work, or independent living has stalled, and willpower alone hasn’t restarted it.
Feeling directionless or unable to get traction on the next chapter: a career change, a move, or a reset.
Stepping down from a program, or rebuilding routine and direction after a life change.
There are no levels to move through, no set timeline, and no cookie-cutter program. We start by listening to the client, and to their family and care team when they want them involved, then build support around what that person wants and needs. Growth tends to rest on four things. They aren’t stages; they build on each other and show up again every time someone takes on something new.
Scaffolding that fits the person. Support ranges from daily, hands-on help to a once-a-week check-in, based on what each client needs and wants. As executive-function skills like planning, task initiation, time management, and self-monitoring take hold, the scaffolding is gradually removed.
A trusted relationship with a mentor who shows up, side by side, for the hard things: starting the task, making the call, getting out the door.
Knowing what you want, with a plan and external systems that take the load off working memory and make the next step obvious.
Practicing in real life, again and again, until routines and habits carry the load that willpower can’t.
Seeing it work. Each success makes the next challenge feel possible, and support naturally pulls back.
When life gets harder, support can increase again. That isn’t a step backward. It’s how growth actually works.
Clients choose their own goals, and we help them reach them. Underneath those goals, we consistently attend to six areas of life. When all six are tended, week after week, life becomes steadier, healthier, and more connected.
Budgeting, building and repairing credit, saving, understanding how emotions and stress shape spending, and the financial literacy that leads to lasting stability.
Friendships, family relationships, and belonging to a community.
Sleep, food, movement, hygiene, and a home that works.
Following through on the plan clients build with their own licensed providers: keeping appointments, managing prescriptions, and noticing early warning signs.
Exploring majors and careers, school and training, job search, and showing up for work.
Contributing to others and to the community.
Money is where many adults quietly struggle. U.S. adults answer only about half of basic personal finance questions correctly, and Gen Z adults average 38%. Adults with very low financial literacy are three times as likely to be financially fragile (TIAA Institute & GFLEC, 2025). Only 63% of U.S. adults could cover a $400 emergency expense with cash (Federal Reserve Board, 2025), and fewer than half have three months of expenses saved (FINRA Investor Education Foundation, 2025). That’s why we help clients build and repair credit, build savings, and recognize how emotions and stress show up in their spending, so they understand their money, not just track it.
Setbacks rarely come out of nowhere. Sleep slips, a bill goes unpaid, a friend stops hearing back, an appointment gets missed. We track progress in all six areas every week, so those early warning signs show up in the data long before life feels out of control.
Every client tracks their goals and progress every week. It’s more than measurement; it’s a skill. The weekly check-in teaches people to take an honest self-inventory, recognize their wins and their struggles, and reset for the week ahead, a habit that keeps working long after our support ends.
Our tracking is built on the EF Integration System™, the framework Jenn Isenhour developed at Rite Passage. It turns weekly progress in all six areas into consistent, quantitative measures, so change shows up as clear trends instead of impressions, and the early warning signs of a downturn show up before a crisis does.
Each week, progress on every goal is scored and recorded. Over time, the data shows clear trends in each area of life.
Clients see their own data and learn their personal early warning signs: the first things that slip when life starts to get harder.
When an early sign appears, we respond right away, adding support for a short time and then stepping back once things steady.
The goal is lasting self-awareness. Over time, clients learn to spot their own warning signs and adjust on their own, long after our support ends. With the client’s consent, progress is also shared with family and care teams. Some clients and families also choose to pair weekly goals with a goal-based incentive; it’s an option, not a requirement.
Clients who choose to can wear a sleep and fitness tracker that measures sleep quality, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, daily physical strain, and how well the body is recovering. Alongside weekly goal tracking, it shows how everyday habits affect sleep, recovery, and stress, and how those in turn affect mood, energy, and follow-through.
Depression often shows up as heaviness and fatigue. If someone reads that as physical exhaustion, they may sleep more, call out of work, or cancel plans, and pulling back can deepen the low mood. When the data shows the body is actually well rested, that’s a cue to keep moving gently instead of retreating.
The reverse matters just as much. Real physical depletion from poor sleep, illness, or overexertion can be mistaken for a motivation problem. Pushing past what the body can give can do real harm. When recovery is low, the right move may be rest.
The skill we build is insight: noticing what the body is communicating, checking it against the data, and learning when to push and when to pivot. Over time, clients learn to make that call on their own.
Wearable data is a tool for self-awareness, not diagnosis. Questions about mood or health go to each client’s own providers.
Clients live in housing they choose, not in a program apartment. We help them build an independent life, practicing executive-function skills in the real situations where they’ll need them.
Every service is an option, not a requirement. Clients choose the support that fits their goals, and the mix can change as they grow. The one thing every client shares is weekly goal and progress tracking.
Planning, task initiation, working memory, organization, prioritization, time management, emotional regulation, flexible thinking, and follow-through.
Choosing housing, navigating leases, moving, and running a home: routines, cooking, cleaning, transportation, and self-care, practiced in person.
A full picture of each client’s health from the start, coordinated with their medical providers. Why it matters
One-on-one training with an independent personal trainer we partner with, building strength, energy, and a movement habit that lasts.
Work with an independent dietitian we partner with on realistic eating, meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking.
Assessing the kinds of work each person’s brain and body are best suited for, resumes, job search, and placements through our community partners.
Exploring majors and careers, degree planning, school re-engagement, accommodations navigation, and study skills.
Budgeting, building and repairing credit, saving, recognizing how emotions and stress drive spending, and the financial literacy to stay stable.
Support for families moving from rescuing to supporting.
Coaching and mentoring are non-clinical services. Our personal trainer and dietitian are independent contractors. Medical, therapy, and psychiatric care are provided by licensed professionals, and we coordinate closely with them.
Many of our clients have been told their struggles are just motivation, just attention, or just anxiety. Sometimes that’s true. But focus, mood, energy, and drive also depend on what’s happening in the body. Low vitamin D, iron, or B12, thyroid problems, poor sleep, blood sugar swings, and gut health can all look like a motivation problem, an attention problem, or depression.
So we look at the whole person, and we make sure the root causes get checked instead of only managing symptoms. Every client is offered a comprehensive health and wellness screening, coordinated with their own medical providers.
We help each client schedule a physical and lab work with their medical provider, prepare their questions, and make sure their concerns are actually heard.
We help clients understand the plan their provider recommends and follow through on it, from refilling prescriptions to keeping follow-up appointments.
The independent dietitian and personal trainer we partner with help clients build nutrition, gut health, movement, and sleep routines that fit their lives, so no one has to do it alone.
Medical providers order, interpret, and treat. Our role is coordination, education, and follow-through.
Our clients aren’t alone while they’re with us. Group activities and time with peers who understand the work they’re doing are part of Rite Passage.
But our goal is bigger than that. We help clients build natural community outside the walls of any program or treatment: friendships, interests, and places where they belong on their own terms. Those are the connections that last after support ends.
Every client’s starting point is different. Some lean on the Rite Passage community while they learn to build their own. Others already have an established community and simply need the one-on-one support and case management we provide.
Support is built around the person, so you can begin at the intensity and timeframe that fits your moment, not a fixed program length.
A shorter, lower-intensity start to build footing and routines before a bigger transition.
Structured time to find direction: further study, training, work, or a different path.
For anyone who has stalled or is rethinking their path. Regroup, stabilize, and choose the next step deliberately.
Comprehensive support for building independence over a longer horizon.
When someone you love becomes a legal adult, the rules change, and the shift from protecting to supporting can feel impossible. We partner with families through that transition without losing the relationship along the way. Many clients also reach out on their own.
For educational consultants, clinicians, and programs: Rite Passage provides the day-to-day, real-world follow-through that complements clinical work without competing with it.
I built Rite Passage because I’ve lived the problem it solves. I’m neurodivergent, and I didn’t learn that until well into adulthood. For years I accepted the explanation the world handed me for why ordinary things felt so hard: that I wasn’t trying hard enough. The truth was simpler. I had been handed the wrong manual. Understanding how my brain actually works changed that. The struggles didn’t disappear, but they finally made sense, and I could start working with my nature instead of against it.
I’m also a parent, and I know how hard it is to step back when the people you’ve advocated for become adults who need room to run their own lives.
That is the heart of Rite Passage: helping people write the user manual for their own brain, learn to use their strengths to work around their weaknesses, and helping families understand the people they love, so that being stuck is never mistaken for a character flaw. That’s when people get unstuck.
Jennifer Isenhour, Founder
A short, no-pressure conversation is the best way to know whether Rite Passage is the right fit, for you or for someone you love.
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