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Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
Provider's Policy
We accept most private insurance policies, Out-Of-Network policies, as well as provide cash pay options. Our admissions team can help you confidentially verify your benefits and will walk you through the process so you can focus on healing yourself or loved one. We do not currently accept Medicaid.
Desert Recovery Centers - Scottsdale
Desert Recovery Centers - Scottsdale
About Desert Recovery Centers - Scottsdale
Desert Recovery Centers - Scottsdale delivers real change by addressing the root causes of addiction and mental health challenges. They provide personalized care for up to 10 women at a time in a relaxing and elegant environment, ensuring the recovery journey is not only effective but also comfortable and enjoyable. They weave together evidence-based modalities, holistic therapies, and a compassionate support system, helping women reclaim their lives with dignity and purpose.
Work Toward Recovery 7 Days Per Week
Desert Recovery offers a range of evidence-based therapies in individual, group, and family formats, including:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to rewire thinking patterns and build healthier behaviors
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to develop emotional regulation skills
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and trauma-focused CBT to target underlying trauma
- Motivational interviewing to boost commitment to the recovery process.
A high staff-to-client ratio gives clients the benefit of 4+ individual sessions per week to dive deep into their unique challenges.
Settle into a Resort-Like Residence
Desert Recovery is a peaceful getaway featuring high-end amenities and mountain views. Clients stay in elegantly appointed shared rooms or private suites, and dine on all-natural catered meals, with occasional opportunities to cook dinner together. Indoors, clients can relax with a massage, reenergize in the gym, or unwind in the movie theater. The expansive grounds offer multiple recreation areas: a pool, tennis court, putting green, and a walking trail with affirmations along the route.
Transition Back to Daily Life with a Plan
Plans for life after treatment begin during residential care to help prevent relapse and support long-term stability. Clients continue with outpatient therapy to reinforce coping mechanisms, attend support groups to maintain a supportive network, and build detailed relapse prevention plans to handle triggers in daily life. Connections to employee assistance programs (EAP) offer added workplace support.

Highlights from the Center
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Insurance Accepted
Holistic Approach
Licensed for Both Addiction & Mental Health
2+ Individual Sessions a Week
Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.
Insurance Accepted
Cash Pay Rates
Estimated Cash Pay Rate
Center pricing can vary based on program and length of stay. Contact the center for more information. Recovery.com strives for price transparency so you can make an informed decision.
Luxury rehab centers offer a unique blend of luxurious amenities and high-quality treatment. From private suites to gourmet dining, personal trainers to spa treatments, these facilities provide a high level of comfort and discretion.
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Meet Your Care Team

Adam Leonard
Admissions Director

Dr. An Nguyen
Clinical Director - Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Madison Day
Post Doctoral Resident

Dr. Jonathan Shelton
Licensed Clinical Psychologist




Levels of Care
Your Care Options
Specializations
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Who We Treat
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Personalized Treatment
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
Therapies
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy relieves physical and emotional tension, reduces pain, promotes relaxation, and improves emotion regulation.
Medication-Assisted Treatment
Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.
Languages
Conditions We Treat
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a long-term pattern of unhealthy behavior relating to food. Most people with eating disorders have a distorted self-image.
Gambling
Excessive, repetitive gambling causes financial and interpersonal problems. This addiction can interfere with work, friendships, and familial relationships.
Grief and Loss
Grief is a natural reaction to loss, but severe grief can interfere with your ability to function. You can get treatment for this condition.
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Aftercare
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Healthy Meals are provided
Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
