Recovery Without Walls

What Recovery Without Walls does

Recovery Without Walls is a privately held, fee-for-service outpatient medical practice founded in 1994 by Dr. Howard Kornfeld, MD and located in Mill Valley, California. The practice delivers integrative medicine across three core service lines: Recovery Medicine (outpatient addiction treatment with dual diagnosis support and buprenorphine/Suboxone protocols), Chronic Pain Treatment (integrative pain management using buprenorphine, functional medicine, acupuncture, and somatic therapies), and Integrative Mental Health (psychiatry, psychiatric medication tapering, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy). The clinical team is small (1–10 employees) and physician-led, with Dr. Kornfeld as Director of Recovery Medicine and Inna Zelikman, PMHNP as Director of Integrative Mental Health, supported by a network of contracted specialists.

The practice operates a hybrid in-person / telehealth model anchored at 3 Madrona Street, Mill Valley, serving patients across Marin County, the San Francisco Bay Area, and out-of-state via telehealth. It does not contract with insurance carriers directly; patients pay out-of-pocket and receive documentation for out-of-network reimbursement. Distribution is driven by reciprocal referral relationships with six core Bay Area treatment facilities, physician-to-physician referrals, and a sustained earned-media presence (podcasts, medical journals, local press) that positions the founders as thought leaders in buprenorphine protocols, psychiatric tapering, and KAP.

The underlying technology is clinical rather than digital: proprietary buprenorphine tapering and pain protocols developed by Dr. Kornfeld, MAPS-aligned ketamine-assisted psychotherapy workflows, and integrated pharmacotherapy plus psychotherapy service lines (psychodynamic, somatic, IFS, family, couples, ecotherapy). There are no proprietary software platforms, AI systems, or technology products disclosed; competitive advantage rests on clinical IP, founder reputation, and a 30-year referral network rather than on a technology stack.

Name

Recovery Without Walls

Legal name

Recovery Without Walls

Website

https://recoverywithoutwalls.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Recovery Without Walls is a Mill Valley, California outpatient medical practice founded in 1994 that delivers fee-for-service integrative treatment for addiction, chronic pain, and mental health, serving individual patients across the SF Bay Area and via telehealth.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Outpatient Addiction and Mental Health Treatment

NAICS

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420), Other Ambulatory Health Care Services (6219)

SIC

Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Peer Support, Recovery Coaching & Sober Living Services (HLAFACAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Substance Use Recovery & Harm Reduction Support Services (BPAGAEAO)

Keywords

• Addiction medicine treatment
• Chronic pain management
• Integrative psychiatry services
• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy
• Outpatient recovery care

Headquarters

HQ city

Mill Valley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Fee-for-Service Medical Services: Recovery Without Walls operates as a fee-for-service private medical practice. Patients pay directly for services rendered. The practice does not work directly with insurance providers but assists patients in submitting documentation for out-of-network reimbursement when eligible. Services include physician consultations, psychiatric care, therapy, medication management, and specialized treatments such as ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Recovery Without Walls is a fee-for-service outpatient medical practice that delivers integrative addiction medicine, chronic pain treatment, and integrative mental health care to individual patients. Its core services combine advanced pharmacology (notably buprenorphine protocols pioneered by Dr. Howard Kornfeld) with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, psychiatric medication tapering, dual diagnosis care, and a range of psychotherapeutic modalities delivered by a multidisciplinary clinical team.

Product overview

Recovery Without Walls is a medical practice offering a unified suite of healthcare services centered on addiction medicine, chronic pain management, and integrative mental health. The core offerings include Recovery Medicine (addiction and pain treatment), Integrative Mental Health (psychiatric care with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy), and specialized services such as psychiatric medication tapering, sleep disorder treatment, and dual diagnosis care. These services are delivered through a multidisciplinary team approach combining traditional medical expertise with integrative approaches including psychotherapy (psychodynamic, somatic, IFS, family, couples, and ecotherapy), pharmacological treatments (buprenorphine, baclofen), nutritional support, and experiential therapies. The practice operates as an outpatient clinic in Mill Valley, CA, serving the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Alcohol & Drug Treatment

Quantifiable outcome

• Dr. Kornfeld pioneered buprenorphine protocols that have been adopted across California emergency departments
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Marin HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrong referral relationship with Marin Health for patients seeking specialized outpatient addiction and pain treatment following hospital discharge or as an alternative to inpatient care.
• Heartwood House DetoxcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferral partnership for patients completing detoxification who need ongoing outpatient support and integrative psychiatric care.
• Olympia House Residential ProgramcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferral partnership for residential treatment alumni seeking continued outpatient care and relapse prevention.
• Alta Mira Recovery ProgramscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferral partnership for patients completing residential addiction treatment who require intensive outpatient or outpatient follow-up services.
• Reflections Dual Diagnosis RehabcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferral partnership for patients with co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders requiring integrated treatment approaches.
• Creekside RecoverycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferral partnership for addiction recovery patients transitioning from intensive treatment to outpatient care.
• The Integration CollectiveminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Nicole Grinsell maintains a private practice and supervises doctoral-level associates at The Integration Collective, an integrative mental health practice.
• Bay Area Healthcare Practitioners NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative care network including psychotherapists, eating disorder specialists, nutritionists, recovery assistants, nursing staff, acupuncturists, bodywork practitioners, massage therapists, and mindfulness practitioners.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Ophelia Health: Ophelia is a virtual outpatient clinic that prescribes buprenorphine for opioid use disorder and treats co-occurring depression and anxiety via telehealth. Comparable to RWW in combining outpatient SUD treatment with mental health management, though Ophelia scales via telemedicine rather than a single physician-led clinic.
• Bicycle Health: Bicycle Health is a virtual outpatient addiction medicine practice delivering buprenorphine/Suboxone treatment for opioid use disorder across multiple U.S. states. Like Recovery Without Walls, its core modality is outpatient MAT, although it is delivery-channel telehealth versus RWW's in-person Mill Valley clinic.
• Workit Health: Workit Health provides outpatient addiction treatment including buprenorphine via telehealth, with integrated mental health and recovery coaching. It is the closest insurance-accepted analogue to RWW's outpatient addiction-and-mental-health integrated model.
• Eleanor Health: Eleanor Health is an outpatient addiction and mental health provider delivering medication-assisted treatment (buprenorphine, naltrexone) along with therapy and psychiatric care. Its model of integrating MAT with outpatient mental health mirrors RWW's dual-diagnosis approach.
• Boulder Care: Boulder Care is a telehealth provider specializing in buprenorphine-based treatment for opioid use disorder, with wraparound recovery support. It is directly comparable to RWW's outpatient buprenorphine protocol focus, albeit delivered via telemedicine.
• Mindbloom: Mindbloom is a national ketamine-assisted therapy provider offering guided at-home ketamine sessions for treatment-resistant depression and anxiety. Its KAP offering overlaps directly with RWW's ketamine-assisted psychotherapy service line, the primary differentiator for non-addiction patients.

Emerging players

• Charlie Health: Charlie Health is a virtual intensive outpatient program (IOP) for adolescents and young adults with mental health and substance use conditions. Comparable to RWW in providing outpatient, non-residential care for treatment-resistant mental health patients, though younger-skewing in patient population.
• Journey Clinical: Journey Clinical is a platform that connects patients with clinicians for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, including medical screening and integration support. It is a relevant emerging peer in the same KAP service category where RWW differentiates, focusing on safe medical delivery and psychotherapy integration.

Broad incumbents

• Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: Hazelden Betty Ford is the largest nonprofit addiction treatment provider in the U.S., operating residential and outpatient programs across multiple states. While broader in scope and primarily residential, it overlaps with RWW in outpatient addiction medicine and serves the same patient population needing outpatient step-down care post-residential.
• Caron Treatment Centers: Caron is a nationally recognized nonprofit addiction treatment provider with residential, outpatient, and chronic pain programs. RWW already receives referrals from peer Bay Area facilities and treats a similar population, but at a much smaller outpatient-only scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/recoverywowalls
• Facebookfacebook.com/recovery.without.walls.rww
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/recovery-without-walls

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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