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Cave Creek, Arizona, United States
Nexus Teen Academy
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At Nexus Teen Academy, we prioritize fostering cooperative partnerships with healthcare providers to maximize support for families seeking assistance.
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Holistic Approach
Trauma-Informed Care
Adolescents
About Nexus Teen Academy
Nexus Teen Academy treats teens through holistic and comprehensive care for addiction, primary mental health conditions, and co-occurring disorders in a structured residential setting. They address self-harm, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, personality disorders, and more. Nexus Teen Academy offers expert care from compassionate clinical staff and personally tailored, evidence-based treatment combining individual, group, and intensive family therapy in an environment that fosters healing, connection, and growth.
Comprehensive Addiction and Primary Mental Healthcare and Family Program
Nexus Teen Academy understands the unique challenges that teens and their families face as they navigate addiction and mental health disorders. Their holistic program provides quality evidence-based care and teaches the life skills needed to maintain long-term sobriety. Their residential program offers a safe space for clients to be vulnerable, express themselves authentically, discover passions, and gain purpose to reduce their prior high-risk behaviors. Nexus Teen Academy offers a robust family program with weekly family empowerment groups, weekly visitations, and counseling sessions led by licensed therapists.
Quality, Evidence-Based Treatment for Teens
Individualized care at Nexus Teen Academy consists of holistic and evidence-based treatment modalities from licensed therapists and professionals. Clients participate in highly structured programs that combine individual therapy, group sessions, and family therapy. Evidence-based treatments include trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), motivational interviewing (MI), interpersonal therapy, and mindfulness therapy.
In-Depth Aftercare Planning
At Nexus Teen Academy, each client is assigned a case manager who monitors treatment plans and offers assistance with outside matters such as legal cases, probation, bills, employment, and more. For lasting support, case managers also assist clients with in-depth aftercare planning. This may include ongoing outpatient care, sober living arrangements, facilitating connections with sponsors and community recovery resources, and securing an ongoing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) provider.
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Insurance Accepted
Provider's Policy:At Nexus Teen Academy, we prioritize fostering cooperative partnerships with healthcare providers to maximize support for families seeking assistance.
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Comfortable Residential Treatment for Teens
Nexus Teen Academy provides a residential recovery sanctuary for teens with views of the mountains. Their center in the Arizona desert offers the comforts of home with compassionate mental health experts guiding clients every step of the way. The home features shared bedrooms, individual and group therapy spaces, recreation rooms with games, and plenty of outdoor space with spikeball, cornhole, and more.
Family Involvement
Nexus Teen Academy offers a weekly Family Empowerment Group for parents to develop new social and emotional skills, along with weekly visitations. They provide tailored family therapy sessions to meet families' unique situations. The whole family can reexamine what is working and what can shift. Family involvement provides an opportunity to see what family dynamics work and which can improve, and the entire family system is equipped with new skills.
Addiction Treatment
Nexus Teen Academy uses a combination of group therapy, individual counseling, family involvement, and holistic wellness programs to overcome addiction and build a brighter future. Clients participate in mindfulness therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing, and life skills development. Their residential program removes everyday stressors, triggers, and negative influences, allowing clients to focus entirely on their journey toward healing.
Primary Mental Healthcare
Nexus Teen Academy’s evidence-based approach delves deep into the root causes of mental health issues, including PTSD, trauma, anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and more. Licensed health professionals use trauma-informed care to empower clients to build confidence in recovery, mend relationships, and create goals and inspiration for the future.
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Center Overview
Estimated Cash Pay Rate
Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Treatment Focus
You can admit to this center with a primary substance use disorder or a primary mental health condition. You'll receive support each step of the way and individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis.
Treatment
Specializations
Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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.
Family Involvement
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
Licensed Primary Mental Health
Some primary care providers offer mental health diagnosis and treatment. This can prevent patients from developing more serious conditions.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Treatment Services
Residential
In a residential rehab program, patients live onsite, with access to daily treatment and 24-hour care. An average stay is 30-90 days.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Family Involvement
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
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
Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Trauma-Specific Therapy
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Equine Therapy
Guided interactions with trained horses, their handler, and a therapist can help patients improve their self-esteem, trust, empathy, and social skills.
Experiential Therapy
With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Interpersonal Therapy
This brief and structured therapy addresses present relationships and improves overall communication at work, home, and other social settings.
Conditions We Treat
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
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.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
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.
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.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
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.
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.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Psychedelics
Hallucinogenic drugs—like LSD—cause euphoria and increased sensory experiences. When abused, they can lead to depression and psychosis.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
Aftercare
Experience
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Center Pets
Addiction and mental health facilities with pets allow patients to interact with friendly dogs, cats, horses, and in some cases, even dolphins.
Healthy Meals are provided
Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.
Professional Staff
Hannah Carr
Clinical Director
LPC, BC-TMH
Ashley Daniels
Director of Family Services & Education
Emily Hruby
Lead Behavioral Health Technician
Bachelor's in Psychological Sciences
Rob Branum
Director of Nursing
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