- Girls only, ages 12 to 17
- Joint Commission accredited
- Admitting this week
Residential Treatment for Teenage Girls in Arizona
Nexus Teen Academy runs girls residential treatment at Mesquite in Cave Creek, ages 12 to 17. One clinical team treats the depression, self-harm, trauma, anxiety or substance use that weekly therapy stopped holding, alongside accredited school, psychiatry and nursing care.
- Licensed by AZDHS, on desert acreage in Cave Creek, 30 minutes from central Phoenix
- 4.8 Google · 31 reviews
- AZDHS-licensed residential facility
- Most major private insurance accepted
- Free consultation
- A counselor is available
Find out today whether she qualifies
A licensed counselor calls back, usually within minutes, and tells you plainly whether residential is the level she needs, whether this program fits, and what your policy pays.
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- 4.8 Google · 31 reviews
- Joint Commission accredited
AZDHS licensed, Joint Commission accredited, LegitScript certified.
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Joint Commission accreditedAZDHS-licensed · LegitScript certifiedGirls residential treatment, Cave Creek, Arizona
Licensed girls-only residential treatment in Arizona.
Nexus Teen Academy runs Mesquite, a girls-only adolescent residential treatment center in Cave Creek, northern Maricopa County, licensed by the Arizona Department of Health Services as a behavioral health residential facility, Joint Commission accredited and LegitScript certified. Residential treatment sits between a partial hospitalization program and inpatient psychiatric hospitalization on the continuum of care. Living at the facility lets the clinical team observe sleep, appetite, peer conflict and self-harm urges directly rather than reconstructing the week from one appointment.
A licensed professional counselor or licensed clinical social worker holds her individualized treatment plan and delivers daily individual therapy. A psychiatric nurse practitioner manages medication and a certified teacher runs the accredited school, all on the program's payroll. Treatment is gender-specific because a girls' caseload carries sexual trauma history, co-occurring depression with self-harm, disordered eating and online aggression far more often. Groups, bedrooms, staffing and the school room are designed around that one population. Boys are admitted to the Scottsdale residence under the same AZDHS license, clinical program and clinical leadership.
12-17
Adolescent girls, one population in the house
24/7
Awake staff on site, every night
30+
Days planned, then set against discharge criteria
1:1
One named therapist, daily individual therapy
Conditions treated
Conditions treated: depression, self-harm, anxiety, trauma.
Every placement begins with a diagnosis, and the plan aims at it. Intake evaluation confirms the full set, because girls rarely arrive with one diagnosis. Co-occurring conditions are the rule, and a dual diagnosis of substance use alongside depression or trauma is treated as one picture.
Treating symptoms in isolation is why many teens cycle through program after program.Nexus Teen Academy treats the primary diagnosis and every co-occurring condition under one integrated plan, dual-diagnosis care, with one clinical team in one Arizona residence.
Girls residential treatment
One clinical program, one house, twelve conditions.
Depression
Present in most admissions.
Self-harm & NSSI
The function gets treated, not just the wound.
Anxiety & panic
School refusal rides on it often.
Suicidal thoughts
Screened at intake, then monitored hourly.
PTSD
Treated with TF-CBT and EMDR.
Trauma
Stabilization comes before processing.
Substance use
Now more common in girls than boys.
Mood & behavior disorders
Bipolar spectrum, diagnosed then treated.
ADHD & inattention
Under-diagnosed in girls.
Mood swings & anger
De-escalation taught and practiced.
Low self-worth & body image
Eating and body image sit in the plan.
Psychotic & personality patterns
Assessed openly at intake.
- Whatever your teen is facing, care stays coordinated in one integrated plan, one clinical team, and one residential setting.
Inside the program
Therapy, psychiatry, nursing, accredited school & aftercare.
A DSM-5 evaluation opens every stay and the written plan follows the confirmed diagnoses. Each element below is reviewed weekly against measurable movement on the admitting diagnosis.
1Individual CBT, daily
One-to-one sessions every day on the thinking and the triggers behind the admitting diagnosis.
2Clinician-led groups, twice a day
Groups at 9:00 and 11:00, where the house becomes the place the skills get tested.
3Family therapy every week
In person for Valley families and by secure video beyond it, working on the home she returns to.
4Psychiatric care & nursing oversight
Medication managed by the prescriber with nursing oversight daily, inside the house rather than across the valley.
5Credit-bearing school on-site
Small credit-bearing classes each weekday, coordinated with her district ahead of re-entry.
6Equine and experiential work
Equine therapy on Friday mornings delivered by Ignite Equine, plus art and music work and regular outings.
Cost & insurance
Girls residential treatment cost & insurance in Arizona.
Most commercial policies cover the stay, because girls residential treatment bills as licensed behavioral health care rather than board and lodging. A verification comes back with network status, deductible, out-of-pocket maximum and any prior authorization your carrier wants.
- 1You send your plan detailsTwo required fields. Member ID optional. Takes about a minute.
- 2We verify with your insurer directlyIn-network or out-of-network, free and confidential, usually the same day.
- 3You get the number in plain EnglishYour exact out-of-pocket cost, explained before you commit to anything.
- Meritain
- UMR
- + more
Policy sitting out of network, or no straight answer from the carrier? Most families here are covered by commercial insurance, and where a plan sits out of network, single case agreements and out-of-network benefits open a route. Utilization review is handled on your behalf.
- Free benefits check
Real figures, in about two minutes
Verify insurance before anything is decided, and see what your policy pays toward a residential stay, in-network or out. No charge, and nothing is committed.
Deciding the level of care
When outpatient, IOP or PHP is no longer enough.
Internalizing disorders let a girl keep performing while the illness moves underneath the performance. Homework gets handed in, friendships look intact, and the deterioration happens in private, which is why families describe the crisis as sudden.
Concealment is part of the presentation rather than a character trait, which is why a functioning week is weak evidence that the illness is not moving. Residential treatment becomes the right level of care at a specific point. Symptoms escalate between appointments, safety cannot be held at home for a full week, or an IOP or PHP has already been tried and the ground keeps moving.
Intake screens the layers that travel underneath, trauma and assault history, disordered eating, sleep collapse, online comparison and friendships that turned punitive. School avoidance is often the first visible sign.
Self-harm as regulation
Cutting is usually an attempt to manage feeling rather than to end life, which is exactly why it escalates when the feeling is never treated.
Trauma that was never disclosed
Assault, coercion and online exploitation are common in this population and most of it has never been said to an adult. Disclosure arrives weeks in rather than at intake, so trauma treatment stays available for the whole stay.
Food, body and control
Restriction, bingeing and body image sit inside the clinical picture rather than in the house rules, and meals are eaten together with staff present.
Interrupting the escalation
Self-harm, NSSI and suicide risk in residential treatment.
The sequence that reaches an attempt is rarely a single decision, which is what makes it interruptible.
The private coping
Cutting, restricting or drinking starts working, and works quickly enough to become the first response to distress. Treatment replaces the function before removing the behavior.
The escalation
The relief shortens, so the behavior escalates. Daily clinical contact catches that shift in days rather than at the next monthly appointment.
The means and the privacy
An attempt needs means and privacy. Awake staff, supervised medication and a house without independent access remove both while the skills are still forming.
The return home
Discharge carries a written safety plan, means restriction agreed with you, and an outpatient team booked before she leaves.
- If tonight is the emergency, treat it as one. Call or text 988 or go to the nearest emergency room, and admissions will time the transfer from there.
Admission criteria
Admission criteria, ages 12 to 17.
Admission is a clinical decision, and referrals arrive from parents directly or from an outside clinician. Most girls come after weekly therapy, an IOP or a PHP stopped holding, or they step down from inpatient psychiatric care.
12-17
Girls only, one house
2
Referral routes: parent or clinician
Step-downs from inpatient care
Yes, here
Admitted here
- Girls 12 to 17, in a girls-only house
- Depression, self-harm and NSSI, anxiety, PTSD and trauma
- ADHD, mood and behavioral disorders, substance use
- Co-occurring and dual diagnosis, treated as one picture
- Step-downs from inpatient psychiatric hospitalization
First, then here
Handled first, then admitted
HospitalNexus, same day
- Acute crisis stabilizes at a hospital, and admissions times the transfer so treatment begins the day she is discharged
- Where withdrawal needs managing, medical detox runs at a hospital beforehand
- Active medical instability is treated at that level of care first
Different door
A separate system
- Foster and state placements move through the Arizona Department of Child Safety and its contracted network
- Admissions will name the right door when it is not this one
Not sure which lane she is in? Call (480) 764-1168
Four checks worth running on any Arizona girls residential facility, this one included.
1
Check 1
License class
Look the facility up in the AZDHS registry. Behavioral health residential licenses carry treatment standards.
- Verify in the registry
2
Check 2
Who runs therapy
Employed licensed clinicians, or contractors visiting weekly. Ours are named on this page with registry links.
- Names on this page
3
Check 3
The school
Accredited, credit-bearing classes inside the house. Mesquite credits follow a girl home long after discharge.
- Credits transfer home
4
Check 4
The reviews
Match every claimed accreditation to its issuer, then read the Google reviews in full rather than the quoted ones.
- Read them in full
Admissions answers every one of these on the phone, free and confidential.
Why this treatment holds
Why residential treatment works for teenage girls.
Weekly therapy reaches one hour of her week. The other hours are where the symptoms actually appear, in the bedroom at 2am, in the group chat, at the dinner table. Three things change once treatment reaches them.
Bedroom at 2amThe group chatThe dinner table
Weekly therapy: 1 of 168 hoursOne week
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
Therapy hourHours treatment never sees
1Same day
A skill gets rehearsed the same day
A skill named in the morning group is tested at lunch, in the classroom and in a conflict by dinner. Repetition inside real friction is what turns a coping strategy into a habit.
2Days, not months
Medication is adjusted in days, not months
The psychiatrist sees the effect daily rather than hearing about it at the next appointment, which matters for a girl who has already cycled through three medications.
3Family work
The house she returns to changes too
Family work is a condition of admission rather than an extra. Treating a girl and returning her to an unchanged home is how relapse gets built in.
How a stay actually moves.
1
Weeks 1 to 2
Stabilize and diagnose
Safety established, DSM-5 evaluation completed, medication reviewed, discharge criteria agreed with you in writing.
2
Weeks 3 to 6
The work
Daily individual and group therapy on the admitting diagnosis, trauma treatment where indicated, school back in rhythm.
3
The middle stretch
The family
Weekly sessions move from history to rehearsal, practising the conversations that have been going wrong at home.
4
Before discharge
The handover
The step-down and the return plan, covered in full further down this page.
Want to know what her first two weeks would look like?A clinician walks you through it on (480) 764-1168
Who treats your daughter
Licensed clinical team, named and registry-verifiable.
Every Arizona license below can be checked in the AZBBHE registry. The house team behind school, family services and meals follows in the same row.
LPC, BC-TMHHannah Carr-Unquera
Executive Director
Runs the clinical program at both houses. Ten years a therapist, ASU-trained, licensed in Arizona and board certified in telemental health.
LCSW, DSWDr. Tyler White
Director of Adolescent Clinical Services
Holds the treatment plan each resident’s team works to, and supervises the clinicians delivering it.
DNP, PMHNP-BCAlexandria Penner
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Carries psychiatric evaluation and medication management on-site, so prescribing never leaves the house.
House teamAshley Daniels
Director of Family Services & Education
Leads family services and education at both houses, after building residential summer programs for Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr.
House teamJennifer Inderberg
Education Supervisor
Twenty-five years in education, and she runs the school room inside each house.
House teamMelissa Stockmar
Director of Food Operations
Heads the kitchen behind every meal, and the cooking group where residents learn to cook.
Registry-verifiable clinical team. The AZ Board of Behavioral Health Examiners registry confirms every clinician named here within seconds, which answers check two from the list higher up.
Parent reviews
Nexus Teen Academy reviews from Arizona parents, verbatim.
4.8/ 5
Read them all on Google★★★★★
“Nexus Academy was a wonderful place for my daughter. The staff were amazing and so supportive. They worked with our entire family. Highly recommend Nexus.”
★★★★★
“Sending your child or teen to a residential treatment facility is a difficult and heart-wrenching decision. The team at Nexus Teen Academy was exceptional. Our daughter’s therapist was a great fit for her and played a significant role in helping us grow as a family. Family therapy is a crucial part of your child’s recovery, and Nexus does an excellent job of involving the family in the healing process. We are grateful for their support in guiding our daughter toward a path of recovery.”
★★★★★
“My daughter was referred here after her various visits to psychiatric hospitals.I was so scared to be apart from my child but Nexus made me feel better about my decision because of their loving and welcoming environment. I love everything about this place, they really love the kids and support parents along the way. I appreciate everyone that loved and supported my child while she was at her lowest. I recommend this place to anyone that may feel like they have tried all they can and they do not know what to do next because Nexus will help you with the next steps in your journey.”
★★★★★
“When we realized we needed a place for our teen to go longer term it was one of the hardest, scariest things I have been through as a mother. Nexus really made it easier and not quite so scary. They have a really caring staff, the kids love the staff. They truly care about your child, it’s not just another kid in and out of their house. I felt like our family was important and they were focused on what my child needed to help her through this difficult time. There was a lot of ups and downs with this process and we had some really hard times and conversations but the staff was always there to help guide us. I would truly say if you are struggling and your teen needs residential Nexus is an amazing place for treatment. The house is beautiful and it is truly comfortable for the kids. I would definitely recommend Nexus.”
These come straight from our public Google Business Profile, anyone can read all 31 and add their own.
Girls admissions
Girls residential treatment admissions, in five steps.
What stays true while you decide
- No pressure tactics, and no offer that expires
- Direct answers on fit, level of care and cost
- The name of a better-fitting program when that is the truth
1
- Today · 24/7
- ~15 minutes
The first conversation
A licensed counselor listens to the history, what has already been tried, and where your daughter stands on safety, then says plainly whether residential is the level indicated.
- No charge, wholly confidential, and no decision is asked for.
2
- Same day
- Free & confidential
Benefits, in writing
With your authorization the team queries the carrier directly and returns the figures, residential benefits, network status and a realistic out-of-pocket.
- Most carriers answer inside a day, with both network positions laid out.
3
- Within 24 to 48 hrs
- Licensed clinicians
Clinical evaluation
A licensed clinician assesses the diagnosis behind the placement, screens safety, reads prior records, and recommends the level of care the findings support.
- Transcripts and earlier evaluations speed this step, so send whatever you hold.
4
- Within days
- One coordinator
Getting ready for move-in
One named coordinator carries transcripts, current prescriptions, the packing list and the arrival window, discreetly and in writing.
- All of it confirmed in writing, with the coordinator’s direct line.
5
- Day one
- Direct team contact
Arrival day
A set arrival sequence, orientation, introductions to her clinician and nurse, medications checked in with the prescriber, and the first family update booked before you leave.
- After that, the same staff, weekly updates and the schedule on the wall.
Programs are planned around 30 or more days, then expedited or extended to match the clinical picture. Same-day placement is possible where a bed is open and the evaluation supports it. Call (480) 764-1168 any hour, or email admissions.
Inside the residence
Inside the girls’ residential home in Cave Creek.
Treatment is the reason she is here, and the setting decides whether she settles enough to use it. Walk the house before you decide, then look at the hours that are not clinical.
- Mesquite, Cave Creek, AZ
- Girls 12 to 17
- 3D walkthrough
3D walkthrough
Bedrooms
Classroom
Group room
The walkthrough covers the bedrooms, the classroom, the group room and the desert yard at full scale.Open full screen ↗
Phone and social media policy
Constant access is a clinical variable, so it is handled the way sleep and medication are handled, on the posted schedule. Discharge covers the accounts and group chats she returns to, agreed with you rather than imposed.
Comparison runs all dayA feed delivers a body, a friendship group and a life standard on a loop, which for a girl already depressed rehearses everything she believes about herself.
Group chats do not stop at 3pmExclusion, screenshots and pile-ons continue into the bedroom, so leaving the building never ended the day, and residential care interrupts that loop physically.
Meals
Chef-cooked meals, eaten together
An executive chef, Melissa Stockmar, cooks every meal on site, so most food allergies and preferences are accommodated rather than worked around.
Allergies accommodatedCooking classesChore rotation
Downtime
Downtime that is actually downtime
A game room, age-appropriate television, evenings of art and music, and outings off the property. Unstructured time is where staff see whether the skills are holding.
Game roomEvening activities
Outdoors
Private desert acreage and space
Secluded acreage in the desert foothills with spacious rooms and outdoor areas. Quiet and distance from the metro reduce the pull of the situations she is coming out of.
Secluded acreageFriday equine
A weekday inside
The daily schedule: 6:30 wake-up to 9:30 lights out.
The house posts the same weekday rhythm on the wall, school, therapy, meals, movement and sleep, so a girl always knows what is next.
6:30 - 8:00 amHygiene, meds & breakfast
Hygiene and meds from 6:30 to 7:30, then breakfast from 7:30 to 8:00.
8:00 - 8:20 amGratitude journal
The day opens with a gratitude journal from 8:00 to 8:20.
8:30 - 10:45 amEducation
Education from 8:30 to 10:45, then a snack at 10:45.
11:00 am - 12:00 pmGroup therapy
Clinician-led group therapy from 11:00 to 12:00.
12:00 - 1:00 pmLunch & mindfulness
Lunch together from 12:00 to 1:00, run with a short mindfulness practice.
2:00 - 4:00 pmGroup therapy
Group therapy from 2:00 to 3:00, a snack at 3:00, then group therapy again from 3:15 to 4:00.
4:15 - 7:00 pmMovement, dinner & evening activity
Movement with nursing from 4:15 to 5:00, dinner at 5:00, then evening activity and meds from 6:00 to 7:00.
7:00 - 9:30 pmFree time & lights out
Free time from 7:00 to 8:30, evening hygiene from 8:30 to 9:00, gratitude journal at 9:00 and lights out at 9:30.
Weekends keep a lighter shape
Saturday and Sunday run lighter than the weekdays above, with the Saturday Family Empowerment Group for parents.
Arrange the consultation Or call (480) 764-1168 and admissions will take you through a full weekend in the house, answered 24/7.Clinical staff stay awake through every hour, overnight included, in both Nexus houses.
Step-down & aftercare
Discharge planning and PHP or IOP step-down.
Discharge planning opens weeks ahead of the date, with you in the room. Your daughter leaves with the step-down mapped, adolescent PHP or IOP where indicated, an outpatient prescriber and therapist booked near home, and school re-entry staged with her district. Credits earned here move on an official transcript, any 504 plan or IEP is updated before she returns, the family portal keeps carrying updates, and telehealth covers the first weeks home.
Girls placement FAQs
Girls residential treatment FAQs: cost, stay, school, licensing.
Answers
Girls residential treatment FAQs
The questions Arizona families ask most, answered plainly: cost, length of stay, school, visits and licensing.
A licensed admissions counselor can answer it on the phone right now, no script, no pressure, and no obligation to enroll.
Call nowAnswered 24/7 at (480) 764-1168The house & visiting
Mesquite sits at 2695 E Saddle Mountain Rd in Cave Creek, 85331, on desert acreage in northern Maricopa County, about 30 minutes from central Phoenix. Admissions answers on (480) 764-1168 at any hour, and the 3D walkthrough on this page shows the whole house.
Yes. Mesquite is the girls’ house, ages 12 to 17, and the gender-specific boys’ house Oak is 20 minutes south in North Scottsdale. Both hold the same AZDHS license and run the identical clinical program.
The family phone window runs 4:00 to 6:00 PM daily, weekly family therapy happens in person for Valley families, and visits are scheduled with the clinical team so they serve the treatment plan. Families further out move the weekly session to secure video.
Yes, and you should tour anywhere you are seriously considering. Walk the 3D tour on this page first, then call to book an in-person visit, which Valley families often manage the same week they first ring.
Most often Cave Creek Unified, including Cactus Shadows, plus Deer Valley Unified and Scottsdale Unified for families further south. Credits transfer on an official transcript, and re-entry is staged with whichever district she returns to.
Yes. Those communities sit 10 to 35 minutes from the house, close enough for weekly family therapy to stay in person. New River, North Scottsdale and Deer Valley fall in the same band.
An executive chef cooks every meal on site, so most food allergies and preferences are accommodated, and cooking classes are open to residents who want them. Your coordinator sends a written packing list before move-in, and parents are asked to pack it with their daughter rather than for her.
Care, school & cost
Live-in, AZDHS-licensed mental health treatment for adolescent girls in a residential house. Therapy, psychiatry, nursing and accredited school run under one roof, every weekday.
Girls 12 to 17 whose depression, self-harm, trauma, anxiety, ADHD or substance use has outgrown outpatient therapy, an IOP or a PHP, including step-downs from inpatient psychiatric care.
Length of stay is planned around 30 or more days, then set clinically against written discharge criteria you receive in week one.
Most commercial plans cover it, because this bills as licensed residential behavioral health treatment. A benefits check returns in-network status, deductible and out-of-pocket, usually the same day.
Admissions runs the clinical evaluation within 24 to 48 hours of your first call, and move-in follows within days when the fit is right.
The signs are functional rather than dramatic, school no longer working, sleep and eating changing, self-harm or substance use appearing. When symptoms escalate between appointments, the level of care is the problem rather than her effort. A licensed counselor places her on the ladder from outpatient through IOP and PHP to residential.
Depression, self-harm and NSSI, anxiety and panic, suicidal thoughts, trauma and PTSD, substance use, bipolar disorder, ADHD, anger, low self-worth and body image, plus evaluated psychotic and personality patterns. Every diagnosis is confirmed at intake evaluation before the plan is written.
Accredited classes run inside the house each weekday from 1:00 in small groups, and the credits she earns move on an official transcript. Re-entry is staged with her own district, from Cave Creek Unified to any district in Arizona, and any 504 plan or IEP is updated first.
Yes. Art therapy, psychodrama, sound therapy and daily meditation and mindfulness run alongside the clinical work, and equine therapy is delivered on Friday mornings by Ignite Equine, a third-party provider. The mix for each girl is set by the clinical team rather than chosen from a menu.
Licensing & safety
Awake staff on every overnight shift, a registered nurse over every medication, and no independent access to substances or means of self-harm.
Look Nexus Teen Academy up in the AZDHS provider registry linked at the top of this page, confirm Joint Commission accreditation at qualitycheck.org, and verify LegitScript through its seal. Every credential claimed here routes back to an issuer you can query.
Restriction, bingeing and body image are screened at intake and treated inside the plan rather than handled as house rules. Meals are chef-prepared and eaten together with staff present. A girl needing medical stabilization is referred to that level of care first.
Contact with home runs in the 4:00 to 6:00 PM window and electronics go in at 9:00, so the feed is out of the room while skills are being built. Discharge planning covers the accounts and group chats she returns to, agreed with you rather than imposed.
Disclosures are common and usually arrive weeks in, which is why trauma treatment stays available for the whole stay. Clinicians who hear these disclosures regularly run the group, so a first telling is met with a plan. Arizona mandatory reporting law is followed and you are informed.
Yes, and it is common in this population. Depression, self-harm and substance use often begin after an assault rather than before it, so the plan treats the history rather than the symptom list. Trauma-focused CBT and EMDR stay available for the whole stay because disclosure usually arrives weeks in.
Yes, on clinical need like any other admission. It matters because the risk data are stark, with more than three in five LGBTQ+ students reporting persistent sadness.
Safety comes before placement. Call or text 988, or go to the nearest emergency room, since a teenager in acute crisis stabilises at a hospital first. Admissions then times the transfer so treatment at Mesquite starts the day she is discharged.
The data behind a girls-only program
Teen girls’ mental health statistics: Arizona and national.
Every figure quoted anywhere on this page is collected here with its source, so the argument for a girls-only residential level of care can be checked rather than taken on trust.
6Figures5Named sourcesAZ+ national data
Girls compared with boysWhere a source reports both, the bars show both.GirlsBoys
Depression
21.7%girls 12 to 17
Major depressive episode in the past year
21.7% of girls 12 to 17 had a major depressive episode in the year, against 8.7% of boys.
Source: SAMHSA NSDUH
Suicide risk
27.1%high school girls
Seriously considered suicide
27.1% of high school girls seriously considered suicide and 12.6% attempted it, against 14.1% and 6.4% of boys.
Source: CDC YRBS 2023
Sexual violence
18%high school girls
Reported sexual violence
18% of high school girls reported sexual violence and 12% reported ever being forced to have sex, against 4% and 5% of boys.
Source: CDC YRBS 2023
Social media
81.8%of girls
On social media several times a day
81.8% of girls use social media several times a day or more, against 72.9% of boys, and electronic bullying runs higher with it.
Source: CDC MMWR, YRBS 2023
Eating disorders
3.8%adolescent girls
Lifetime eating disorder prevalence
Lifetime eating disorder prevalence runs at 3.8% of adolescent girls against 1.5% of boys, so restriction and body image sit inside the clinical picture.
Source: NIMH
Arizona
12%Arizona adolescents
Lifetime depression diagnosis in Arizona
In Arizona, lifetime depression diagnosis reaches 12% of adolescents, roughly double the figure five years earlier.
Roughly double in five years
Source: Arizona Department of Health Services, 2024
Sources1CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2023 Data Summary and Trends Report2SAMHSA, 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Health3CDC MMWR, frequent social media use, YRBS 20234NIMH, eating disorders among adolescents5Arizona Department of Health Services, 2024 Adolescent Mental Health Report
Statewide placement
Girls residential treatment across Arizona.
The house sits in northern Maricopa County, inside a day’s drive of nearly every Arizona family. Admissions answers around the clock wherever you are starting from.
Drive times to Cave Creek
Reckon on two hours from Tucson up I-10, two from Flagstaff down I-17, 80 minutes from Prescott and three hours from Yuma on I-8. Sitting north of the metro shortens the drive from the high country.
Family sessions by secure video
Where the drive is long the weekly family session moves to secure video, and out-of-state arrivals route through Phoenix Sky Harbor, 45 minutes from the house. Inside the metro, families arrive from Cave Creek, Carefree, North Scottsdale, Anthem, Desert Hills, New River, Deer Valley and north Phoenix.
The handoff, arranged locally
Before discharge the team books an outpatient prescriber and therapist near home and stages school re-entry with your own district, from Cave Creek Unified to Tucson Unified or Flagstaff Unified.
The girls’ residence · Cave Creek
2695 E Saddle Mountain Rd, Cave Creek, AZ 85331
Staffed 24/7 · Directions: Google Maps · Apple Maps
What travel changes, and what it does not
Distance moves the weekly family session to secure video and stages the flight home through Sky Harbor. It changes nothing about the clinical week, the school hours or the discharge plan written with your own district.
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Choose Cave Creek and the live map of the girls’ residence loads here.
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