Frequently Asked Questions

If weekly therapy hasn’t helped, the answer usually isn’t “stop therapy” — it’s a different level or type of care. Many people need more structure than one hour a week, or a trauma-specific approach their current therapist doesn’t offer. An intensive outpatient program (IOP) gives you several hours of treatment multiple days per week while you continue living at home. Call us for a free assessment; we’ll tell you honestly whether IOP is the right next step.

There’s a middle ground most people don’t know exists. From least to most intensive: weekly outpatient therapy → intensive outpatient program (IOP, 9–15 hours per week) → partial hospitalization (PHP, full days) → residential or inpatient. Healing Foundations Center provides IOP and outpatient care. You live at home, keep your routines, and still get structured, specialized treatment.

Inpatient and residential programs require you to live at the facility 24/7. IOP means you come to treatment for a few hours, several days a week, and go home afterward. IOP is a fit when you need more than weekly therapy but don’t need round-the-clock supervision. Our IOP runs Monday through Friday, 3–6 pm, with 3-day and 5-day options, typically for eight or more weeks.

Ask four things: (1) Do they specialize in trauma, or is trauma one of many things they treat? (2) Is trauma processing — EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, DBR — built into the program, or just coping-skills groups? (3) Will I have a consistent individual therapist alongside group work? (4) Do they assess for dissociation and pace treatment accordingly? Healing Foundations Center is built around all four.

Yes. Complex trauma and CPTSD — trauma from prolonged or repeated experiences, often beginning in childhood — are the core of what we do. Our program is paced and structured for complex and developmental trauma, including trauma-related dissociation, emotional dysregulation, and attachment wounds.

Yes. Most of our patients have already tried weekly therapy. Our trauma-focused IOP is designed specifically for the gap between once-a-week sessions and hospitalization.

Yes. Our intensive outpatient program treats bipolar disorder, borderline and other personality disorders, anxiety and panic disorders, depression, OCD, eating disorders, dissociative disorders, and co-occurring addiction. Psychiatric services and medication management are part of the program.

Yes, when hospitalization isn’t required. Our IOP provides structured, frequent support with individual therapy, group therapy, case management, and psychiatry. If you are in immediate danger, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or go to the nearest emergency room.

Yes. Grief, attachment injuries, neglect, and abandonment are common roots of complex trauma and are central to our work.

Yes — as part of our structured treatment program, not as standalone sessions. EMDR is integrated alongside individual therapy, small-group therapy, case management, and psychiatry. This matters: trauma processing works best inside a container of consistent support.

Both are body-based trauma therapies that work with the nervous system rather than only with thoughts and memories. Somatic Experiencing focuses on releasing trauma held in the body. Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) targets the brainstem-level “orienting” response that occurs in the first moments of a traumatic event. We are one of a small number of Arizona programs offering both within a trauma IOP. As with EMDR, they are delivered inside our structured program, not as standalone therapy.

Our program combines individual therapy with small-group therapy. Groups are small, trauma-informed, and an important part of treatment — but you will also have a consistent individual therapist.

We are in Scottsdale, Arizona (8603 E Royal Palm Rd #100B, Scottsdale, AZ 85258). We serve patients from Scottsdale, Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, and across Arizona, and regularly work with out-of-state patients who travel for specialized complex-trauma treatment.

We verify insurance for every patient before admission. Use our insurance verification form or call us and we’ll check your benefits and tell you exactly what to expect.

Call us or fill out the contact form. We’ll schedule a confidential assessment, verify insurance, and tell you honestly whether our program is the right fit — and if it isn’t, where to go instead.