Embark Behavioral Health in Phoenix, Arizona
Embark Behavioral Health in Phoenix, Arizona, previously known as Doorways Counseling Center, is an outpatient treatment program that provides therapists dedicated to helping adolescents, teens, and young adults with mental health issues.
Our therapists will help your family get the mental health treatment you need in your local Phoenix community. Our counselors specialize in helping youths who are struggling with behavioral health issues like eating disorders, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, and depression through a unique therapeutic framework, an intensive outpatient program (IOP), and a therapeutic day treatment program (also known as a partial hospitalization program, or PHP).
How Our Outpatient Program Can Help
Our Phoenix clinic located in the Uptown Phoenix area offers individual, group, and family therapy as well as therapeutic/peer mentoring, home behavioral health care services, psychiatric services, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), dietitian services, addiction treatment, and parent coaching. Our therapists can help your adolescent, teen, or young adult address and overcome mental health issues that may be affecting your family’s everyday life.
Services We Provide Across the Embark Continuum of Care
Conditions Our Therapists Treat
Anxiety, depression, and suicide are on the rise, and youths are at risk today more than ever before. Too many adolescents, teens, and young adults in and near Phoenix go through life struggling with not only anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation but also OCD, trauma, and PTSD. It doesn’t have to be this way. Our outpatient treatment program can help your child create a life filled with joy.
Phoenix Outpatient Program FAQ
During outpatient counseling at our Phoenix clinic, your adolescent, teen, or young adult will meet with a local Doorways therapist while maintaining their daily schedule. For those who have moderate mental health symptoms and a daily routine that is not negatively impacting their mental health, outpatient therapy may be a good option.
Outpatient visits to our clinic can involve weekly individual counseling sessions with one of our Doorways therapists. We also offer group therapy through our intensive outpatient program and our therapeutic day treatment program.
There are many benefits to outpatient treatment at our Phoenix clinic. Our outpatient programs allow adolescents, teens, and young adults to maintain work and school schedules and receive support from friends and family while receiving counseling — and at a more affordable cost on average than most inpatient treatment options.
The main difference between weekly individual counseling sessions, the intensive outpatient program, and the therapeutic day treatment program at our Phoenix clinic is the amount of time your adolescent, teen, or young adult will spend in treatment. Weekly individual therapy sessions require the least amount of time and can be scheduled at a specific time of day. An intensive outpatient program takes place in the evening to accommodate school and work schedules and typically meets three hours a day, three to four days per week, for a total of nine to 12 hours per week. A therapeutic day treatment program typically meets 5.5 hours a day, five days a week, for a total of 27.5 hours per week.
The goal of outpatient therapy at our program is to help adolescents, teens, and young adults overcome difficult behavioral health and substance abuse issues like anxiety and depression through a series of visits to one of our Doorways therapists for weekly individual counseling sessions or an intensive outpatient or therapeutic day treatment program.
The main difference between inpatient hospitalization and outpatient treatment is the treatment setting. Our outpatient services, which include IOP and day treatment options, provide a good option for adolescents, teens, and young adults whose needs can be met by visiting a therapist in their local Phoenix neighborhood while living at home and maintaining their daily routine. Inpatient hospitalization treatment is a good option for those who need to leave their home and receive dedicated 24-hour care in a hospital setting to overcome mental health and substance abuse issues.
The length of outpatient treatment depends on each child's particular needs and whether your child is attending weekly individual therapy sessions or participating in a therapeutic day treatment program or intensive outpatient program in Phoenix. On average, outpatient treatment at our clinic can last from three months to one year. If a deeper level of treatment is needed, adolescents, teens, and young adults can step up a level of care to an inpatient hospitalization treatment program.
Our Therapists and Team
Courtney Kucera
Courtney Kucera
Licensed Associate Counselor
Courtney is currently pursuing her Masters of Counseling (MC) from...
Liz Sims
Liz Sims
Registered Dietitian
Liz Sims is a Registered Dietitian with a masters of...
Jody Pannozzo
Jody Pannozzo
Registered Dietitian
Jody has over 20 years of experience in the field...
Lindsey Millenbaugh
Lindsey Millenbaugh
Licensed Professional Counselor
Lindsey Millenbaugh is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over ten...
Russ Yost
Russ Yost
Licensed Marriage Family Therapist & Licensed Professional Counselor
Russ Yost is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed...
Heather Hall
Heather Hall
Chief Operating Officer
Heather obtained a B.S. degree in both Accounting and in...
Jan Hamilton
Jan Hamilton
CEO, Founder, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Jan Hamilton is the Founder and Owner of Doorways. She...
Maddy Little
Maddy Little
Licensed Associate Counselor
Maddy is passionate about fostering a safe, non-judgmental space for...
Andrew Stravitz
Andrew Stravitz
Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Andrew has worked with adolescents and families in athletics, ministry,...
Amy Girimonti
Amy Girimonti
Licensed Master Social Worker
Amy has received her Bachelor’s in Psychology from NOVA University...
Joy Jamison
Joy Jamison
Intern
Joy is currently pursuing her Masters of Marriage and Family...
Diana Douglas
Diana Douglas
Dietetic Technician
Diana received her Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences and...
Jennifer Derr
Jennifer Derr
Executive Assistant
Jennifer has worked in the medical field and outpatient substance...
Kanaya Adams
Kanaya Adams
Front Office Lead
Kanaya has lived in Arizona most of her life. She...
Desiree Ramirez
Desiree Ramirez
Front Office Staff
Disiree joins Doorways with 5 years of healthcare industry experience....
A Continuum of Mental Health Care Offered Across the U.S.
If outpatient therapy, which includes intensive outpatient and therapeutic day treatment programs, does not offer the level of care your adolescent, teen, or young adult needs, Embark Behavioral Health offers exceptional treatment and therapy options across the United States.
From virtual therapy to residential programs, our continuum of care will provide the right level of treatment to help your child overcome difficult mental health challenges.
Contact us today to learn more about our programs and how they’re changing the lives of adolescents, teens, and young adults across the U.S., helping them embrace a fulfilling and purposeful future.
Start your healing journey
Embark Behavioral Health
4747 N 7th St
Suite #450
Phoenix, AZ 85014
Hours
Areas Our Phoenix Therapists Serve
Our therapists serve a variety of locations, including:
- Phoenix
- Midtown Phoenix
- Camelback East Village
- Central City Village
- Paradise Valley
- Mesa
- Tempe
- South Mountain
- Glendale
- North Mountain Village
- Tolleson
- Goodyear
- Laveen
What Are IOPs and PHPs, and What Should You Expect?
Therapeutic day treatment programs, also known as partial hospitalization programs (PHPs), and intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) provide healing mental health treatment that can help your adolescent, teen, or young adult overcome difficult behavioral health challenges. Here’s what you need to know about these outpatient therapy options and how they fit into Embark Behavioral Health’s continuum of care, offered across the United States.