Hope & Healing Sterling House, Phoenix

Treatment Services at Hope & Healing Sterling House

Two levels of care are recorded here, short-term and long-term residential, with stays published as fourteen to ninety days, so the same house can hold a brief stabilizing admission and a three-month program without a change of provider. An executive director, a clinical director and an assistant clinical director lead licensed therapists, psychiatric providers, medical staff and behavioral health specialists; Lynette Howard, MA, LPC, is assistant clinical director.

The therapy mix is broad and specific: CBT, DBT, EMDR, motivational interviewing, trauma therapy, individual, group and family sessions, twelve-step work, holistic therapies and equine therapy, with resident animals around the house day to day. Buprenorphine and Vivitrol are prescribed and psychiatric medication is managed on site. Methadone is not dispensed here, though care is coordinated with outside providers such as Community Medical Services for residents already on it.

Admission starts with the twenty-four-hour line, a callback request or an online insurance check, after which an admissions specialist arranges a confidential assessment before placing anyone. Aftercare is on record, though the operator’s ambulatory detox, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs run from its other sites rather than Lone Cactus Drive, so ask how a step-down would be organized and whether it means travelling to Mesa.