Vita Nova is a private wellness residence in South Florida. The method is not complicated — it is simply built at a scale where real attention is actually possible.
Almost everything that frustrates people about conventional programs comes down to volume. When a place serves fifty or a hundred people, attention has to be rationed: group sessions instead of individual hours, rotating staff instead of consistent relationships, a schedule instead of a life.
Vita Nova starts from the opposite direction. We decided how much personal attention each person actually needs, and then capped the number of guests at whatever that made possible. The answer was eight.
A private car collects you at your door. You arrive at a home, where Mac and Laura meet you at the entrance. Your room has your name on it, flowers, and a handwritten note. Nothing about arrival is processed or administrative.
Every element of Vita Nova depends on this number staying small. Eight is the point at which two people can genuinely know everyone in the house, notice when someone is struggling, and respond the same day.
There are no rotating staff and no handoffs. Mac and Laura are the constant. Trust compounds when you are not re-explaining your life to a new face each week.
Mac will ask the questions the people around you have avoided. Not to confront you, but because nothing changes while the real thing stays unspoken. Most guests describe this as a relief rather than an ordeal.
Twice-weekly in-home massage, real food, sleep, sunlight, and time near the water. People often settle physically before they settle emotionally, and we give both room to happen.
Laura works on temperament and family understanding, because most people are not returning to a blank slate. They are returning to relationships that need a different pattern.
Mornings are unhurried. Breakfast happens together, in a kitchen, with conversation. Mac's one-on-one sessions land where they fit the day rather than in a fixed slot — sometimes at a table, often on a walk.
Afternoons make room for the body: massage twice a week, movement, golf or pickleball, or time near the water. Evenings are shared meals. During the week Mac and Laura cook alongside guests; on weekends a private chef builds a menu around what the house actually wants that week.
The unstructured hours matter as much as the sessions. The most significant conversations at Vita Nova rarely happen because they were scheduled. They happen because two people who have earned your trust are present at 11 p.m. when something finally surfaces.
“Real change happens in the ordinary hours, not the appointment slots. So we built a place where someone is actually there for them.”— Mac & Laura · Founders, Vita Nova
Vita Nova is a private home in South Florida with a maximum of eight guests. There are no group sessions, no rotating staff, no check-in desk, and no shift changes. You work directly with Mac and Laura, the founders, at least five days a week.
Mac works one on one with each guest four to five days per week for the length of their stay. Because the residence never holds more than eight people, that time is genuinely available rather than scheduled around a caseload.
Days follow the rhythm of a home rather than a schedule board: shared meals, one-on-one sessions with Mac, time outdoors near the water, movement or golf or pickleball, and unstructured hours where honest conversation tends to happen naturally.
Yes. Laura is a certified DISC practitioner and every guest receives a full behavioral profile. Understanding your natural wiring shapes how Mac works with you and gives you a practical language for why you react the way you do.
Never more than eight. That ceiling is the reason the personal attention is possible, and it is not flexible.
Vita Nova is a private wellness residence and personal coaching program for adults 21 and over. All guests are medically stable on arrival.
One private conversation with Mac or Laura is usually enough to know. There is no intake department and no script.
(954) 355-2040