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Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
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 co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
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.
Insurance Accepted
This center accepts insurance, exact cost can vary depending on your plan and deductible.
Wolf Creek Recovery Scottsdale
Wolf Creek Recovery Scottsdale
About Wolf Creek Recovery Scottsdale
Wolf Creek Recovery in Scottsdale helps clients with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health concerns create real, lasting change through an intensive residential program. This private environment is designed for executives, professionals, and families seeking a quiet space to reclaim their personal values. Operating with an exceptional staff-to-client ratio, the facility allows participants to step away from daily distractions to focus fully on healing.
Explore What Drives Change
The clinical framework focuses on deep emotional healing by assigning 2 dedicated clinicians to every client for multiple weekly 1-on-1 sessions. This thorough approach integrates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), emotion-focused therapy (EFT), and regular equine sessions. These diverse therapeutic experiences work together to help individuals explore harmful behavior patterns, process underlying trauma, and repair fractured family relationships.
Recharge in Comfort and Privacy
Participants enjoy a comfortable living layout featuring an open family room, private en-suite bathrooms, and semi-private bedrooms with full-size beds. Comfortable spaces encourage both reflection and connection, while the swimming pool, waterfall, and outdoor sitting areas offer opportunities to unwind between sessions. Structured fitness training, nutritionist-guided meals, and regular gym access help clients rebuild physical strength, reduce stress, and establish healthy routines that support recovery.
Sustain Progress Beyond Treatment
Before finishing the 30-to-90-day residential program, case managers work closely with families to coordinate a definitive continuation plan to safeguard long-term sobriety. Staff arrange this ongoing care using trusted professional networks or the organization's own extended outpatient services and structured recovery housing. This active focus on clinical planning ensures that all participants maintain clear routines and steady community accountability after discharge.
Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Joint Commission Accredited
The Joint Commission accreditation is a voluntary, objective process that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations (like treatment centers) based on performance standards designed to improve quality and safety for patients. To be accredited means the treatment center has been found to meet the Commission's standards for quality and safety in patient care.
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.
Meet Your Care Team

Jonathon Ciampa
CEO & Co-Founder

Steven Nolan
Executive Director & Co-Founder

Terry Vaughan
Residential Medical Director

Sheila Busch
Outpatient Medical Director
FNP-C

Asya Perkins
Clinical Director & EMDR Therapist
MA, LPC

Steven Nolan
Director of Business Development

Courtney Routson
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Christopher Franck
Medication Room Manager

Marc Lefkowitz
Program Director - Gambling
ICGC-II

Angela Garrotto
Group Facilitator

Celeste Holly
Yoga Instructor

Erik Ish
Assistant Clinical Director
MA, LAC

Tesleah Cromwell
Director of Clinical Outreach

Kat Skye
Primary Therapist

Katherine Miller
Therapist
MA, LCSW

Alan Sprang
Behavioral Health Technician
BHT

Justin Paugh
Director of Compliance

Nicholas Heil
Case Manager

Shasta Roberts
Behavioral Health Technician
BHT




Levels of Care
Your Care Options
Specializations
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.
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
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."
Who We Treat
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Adventure Therapy
This experiential approach uses the physical and emotional challenges of outdoor activities as tools for personal growth.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches skills for managing emotions, improving relationships, tolerating distress, and increasing mindfulness.
Experiential Therapy
With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.
Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
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.
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.
Gambling
Gambling involves risking money or valuables on uncertain outcomes. Problem gambling can lead to financial difficulties, emotional distress, and relationship challenges.
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.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
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."
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, insomnia, and seizures. They can be habit-forming and may cause drowsiness, memory problems, and dependence.
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 use.
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. Use of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive opioid that produces feelings of euphoria and relaxation. Its use carries serious risks, including overdose and dependence.
Marijuana
Marijuana is a psychoactive substance derived from cannabis. It can affect mood, memory, coordination, and perception, with varying effects between individuals.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a powerful stimulant that increases energy and alertness. Repeated use can lead to addiction and significant physical and mental health risks.
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
