- Treatment Across Brain, Body, Emotions and Behavior
Neuroscience-Driven Depression Treatment in Scottsdale
Redefine Wellness & Treatment provides depression treatment in Scottsdale for adults, with nervous-system-focused, trauma-informed care in a Partial Hospitalization Program or an Intensive Outpatient Program. The care is neuroscience-driven: your team draws on more than 20 modalities, neurofeedback and EXOMIND among them, to work with mood, energy, sleep and the body's stress response in one plan instead of one therapy at a time.
- 20+ Available Modalities
- Focused Expertise Across Modalities
- DBR, Neurofeedback and EXOMIND
- Nervous-System-Focused and Trauma-Informed
Accredited by
The Joint Commission
Plans we work with:
...and more private plans
- Inside Depression Treatment
Depression Treatment Beyond Talk Therapy
Depression treatment at Redefine Wellness & Treatment happens at a Joint Commission accredited outpatient center in North Scottsdale, in a full-day program or a three-day-a-week program, and you go home each evening either way. The care is nervous-system-focused and trauma-informed: your plan works with mood and thinking, the body’s stress response and the routines that have slipped, rather than relying on conversation alone. Your week combines neurofeedback and therapy, EXOMIND is available here, and the psychiatric provider is part of the same team.
- Cognitive behavioral therapy, yoga, breathwork and DBT skills are among the therapies available
- Neurofeedback built into treatment rather than added on, with the amount set by your plan
- Gender-specific care, with women in their own group
- Psychiatric evaluation and medication management from the same team, when medication belongs in your plan
- PHP five days a week, or IOP on three assigned days so treatment fits around work and family
- Residential locations through Redefine's partner Saguaro Recovery for clients traveling in or wanting additional support
- Signs and Symptoms
What Depression Can Look Like Day to Day
Mood and thinking
A low mood that settles in and stays. Things that used to matter can lose their pull, and concentrating, or making even a small decision, can take far more effort than it once did.
The body
Sleep can be off in either direction, too little or too much. Energy runs low. Appetite can change, and aches with no clear cause are common.
Behavior and habits
Routines that once ran on their own start to slip. Plans with friends get cancelled or never made, and withdrawing from people can happen gradually, without a clear decision to do it.
Work and relationships
Getting through an ordinary workday can use up everything a person has, with little left for the evening. People who are close can start to feel far away, even in the same room.
- The Science of Depression
What's Happening in the Brain and Body With Depression
Researchers have not found one mechanism that explains depression. A 2016 review in Nature Reviews Disease Primers describes a set of changes instead, in brain circuits involved in mood, attention and decision-making and in the body’s stress-response systems. Sleep belongs in the picture too: a 2019 review describes depression and sleep disturbance as affecting each other in both directions.
Depression treatment at Redefine is built around that whole picture, not one part of it. Talk therapy and skills work, body-based work and neurofeedback, and psychiatric care each take on a different part, and no single one is expected to carry all of it. The nervous system is part of the work from the start, not an afterthought. Your assessment decides which pieces your plan begins with and how they fit together.
- Our Approach
Depression Treatment That Works Across Brain, Body and Behavior
Depression rarely stays in one place. It can reach mood and thinking, energy and sleep, and the routines that hold a week together, which is why Redefine treats it across brain, body, emotions and behavior rather than through one kind of therapy. Our goal is to help regulate the nervous system.
More than one way in matters with depression. What is stuck for one person is a sleep pattern, and for another a way of thinking that keeps circling back. Individual therapy, skills groups, neurofeedback and medication management, where it belongs in the plan, can run in the same week under one clinical team. Care here is gender-specific, so women are in a group of their own.
- Levels of Care
Depression Treatment at the Right Level of Care
Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
The most structured of Redefine’s programs: a full treatment day that can combine therapy, neurofeedback and psychiatric care, with evenings at home. It suits depression that is taking up most of the day, when weekly sessions alone have not given enough structure.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
A step up from weekly therapy that still leaves room for work and family. Your treatment days are assigned around clinical needs, therapist recommendations and program availability, and Redefine tries to fit them around your schedule.
- Getting Started
How Depression Treatment Starts at Redefine
You do not need to know which program or therapy you need before you call.
Talk with admissions
A phone conversation about what has been happening and what you have tried.
Check your coverage
Verify your insurance online, then admissions reviews your benefits and cost with you by phone.
Assessment and plan
A clinician assesses what you are dealing with and builds your plan, with neurofeedback, EXOMIND, therapy and psychiatric care included as they fit.
Start
Treatment begins on your program days, PHP or IOP, and you go home each evening.
- Coverage Made Simple
We Accept Most
Major Insurance Plans
- Therapies
Therapies Available in Redefine's Programs
Redefine’s programs draw on the full range of modalities below. For depression, cognitive behavioral therapy, which has the deepest research base of any talk therapy for the condition, yoga and breathwork are all available at Redefine, and published research supports each of them. Where managing intense emotion is part of the picture, DBT skills have early support from one pilot randomized trial. Neurofeedback is used throughout treatment here and is an active area of research for depression, and EXOMIND, in its manufacturer’s words, is designed to treat symptoms of depression. Which therapies go into your plan is decided after assessment, not before it.
Neurofeedback
Real-time brain training, an integral part of treatment at Redefine, that targets patterns associated with focus, stress, and sleep.
EXOMIND
Noninvasive ExoTMS technology, FDA-cleared for the treatment of depression, in comfortable sessions under 30 minutes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Identifies and reshapes the thought patterns that keep distress and avoidance going.
Breathwork
Guided breathing techniques that may support nervous-system regulation and emotional processing.
- Why Redefine
Why Adults Choose Redefine for Depression Treatment
Neurofeedback Built Into Treatment
Neurofeedback is an integral part of treatment at Redefine, so working with the brain directly is part of the plan rather than an extra to ask for. During a session you watch feedback on your own brain activity as it happens and practice shifting it, and how much of it you do is decided with you. For depression, it adds a way of working that does not depend on finding words for a low mood.
More Than 20 Modalities, One Clinical Direction
Cognitive behavioral therapy and DBT skills, neurofeedback and EXOMIND, PEMF and red light therapy, breathwork, yoga, meditation and Reiki, psychiatry and coaching all sit under one clinical team that keeps track of what each part of the plan is for. If one approach stalls, there are others to bring in without starting over somewhere else.
Clinicians Trained for the Work They Deliver
The person running your neurofeedback session, your therapy hour or your medication review has trained in that specific work. Focused expertise across the modalities is how Redefine staffs a plan, not a claim about one star clinician.
A Private Outpatient Setting
Individual sessions happen behind a closed door, and between them there is a client lounge and a meditation room rather than a waiting room. It is a quiet, private place to do difficult work.
Accredited by The Joint Commission
Redefine is accredited by The Joint Commission, an independent body that reviews health care organizations against its standards. It is one outside reference point you can check before you call.
- Treatment Goals
Treatment Targets That Extend Into Everyday Life
Redefine’s modalities work with different parts of the clinical picture, from traumatic memories and distress tolerance to sleep, attention, relationships and daily functioning. The work is designed to go past insight to observable changes in how a person responds and functions.
- Recognize emotional and physical activation earlier.
- Create more space between an emotional urge and the action that follows.
- Build skills for managing distress without escalating the situation.
- Improve the ability to remain present during stress.
- Support improvements in mood, attention, sleep, and daily functioning when clinically appropriate.
- Translate clinical work into relationships, work, decision-making, and everyday life.
- Our Team
Our Clinical Team
Psychiatric care and therapy at Redefine are coordinated by one clinical team, so each part of your plan works toward the same goals.
- Psychiatry
Dr. Michael Yasinski, MD
Psychiatrist, coordinating medication with the treatment team.
- Psychiatry
Lindsey Dunning, PMHNP
- Our Center
Inside Redefine's Scottsdale Outpatient Center
- Residential Locations
Residential Locations for Men and Women in Scottsdale
Redefine partners with Saguaro Recovery to offer residential locations for clients who are traveling for treatment or for those who need additional support. They are places to stay while you attend PHP or IOP, not a residential treatment program. Treatment happens at the outpatient center, and the stay is paid separately.
You attend your program days at the center and return to the house in between.
- Desert Rose and Mariposa for women, Cholla and Tortuga for men, all in Scottsdale.
- A house manager on site 24 hours a day
- Groceries, linens and household supplies included, with community dinners five nights a week
- Regular contact between the house and your clinical team
- A pool, high-speed internet and desk space for work at each home
- Availability varies by house and room, and admissions can walk you through openings and cost.
- Testimonials
Healing in Their Own Words
“They made me feel at ease and understood.”
Chris S.
“Love this place!!”
Christine D.
“Best treatment in my LIFE!”
Dan S.
“Laura is an excellent practitioner”
Dr. Jasmine
“What a blessing to have found and participated in treatment at Redefine Wellness.”
Jen C.
“I have never experienced such a professional and caring staff.”
Hunter B.
“The staff is so friendly and the facility is clean. ”
Gwen J.
“I love this facility. I have been coming here for several months.”
Robert B.
“I was lost, unable to stand up for myself and stuck in anxiety.”
Presley P.
“The wellness center is stunning and the whole team has been very kind and helpful.”
Mackenzie K.
“I’m so happy to say I would 100% recommend this place over and over”
briana medley
“The staff here are wonderful and compassionate. I definitely recommend this clinic!”
Beaunerism
“Receiving treatments here was 100% a game changer, I strongly recommend!”
Jae S.
“Highly recommend if you’re looking for something focused and personal.”
Scott Forbes
“Highly recommend!”
Jenna Wolf
“The entire staff at Redefine is amazing. ”
Brittany Whitley
“The staff is incredible—super friendly”
Jon Driscoll
“A beautiful location with wonderful staff”
Matt Sheehan
“They made me feel at ease and understood.”
Chris S.
“Love this place!!”
Christine D.
“Best treatment in my LIFE!”
Dan S.
“Laura is an excellent practitioner”
Dr. Jasmine
“What a blessing to have found and participated in treatment at Redefine Wellness.”
Jen C.
“I have never experienced such a professional and caring staff.”
Hunter B.
Real Connection, Support, & Healing
Our Scottsdale outpatient programs combine innovative neuroscience with proven therapeutic approaches.
- FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What if treatment hasn't helped my depression before?
Say so when you call. Redefine’s programs can bring more than one approach to bear at once, so a plan is not limited to repeating what was tried before, and EXOMIND is one of the options here. Its manufacturer, BTL, states that EXOMIND “is intended to be used for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in adult patients who have failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from prior antidepressant medication in the current episode.” Our article on options for treatment-resistant depression, further down this page, goes into more detail.
Will I need to take medication?
Not necessarily. Medication recommendations at Redefine are individualized, and medication is not required for every client. If it belongs in your plan, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner reviews what you currently take, evaluates your symptoms, answers your questions and keeps track of effectiveness and side effects, working alongside your therapists.
Can I keep working while I'm in treatment?
In the Intensive Outpatient Program, often yes. You attend on your assigned days and the rest of the week stays open, which is what leaves room for a job. The Partial Hospitalization Program fills most of each weekday, so it leaves far less room for work. Our guide to working during IOP covers the practical side.
Can I keep seeing my own psychiatrist?
Yes. If you already see a psychiatrist or prescriber, Redefine can coordinate with them once you give your authorization, so no one changes a medication without the other knowing. Ask admissions how that works in your situation.
- On the TEDx Stage
See Redefine for Yourself
A short introduction to how Redefine approaches mental health treatment in Scottsdale, for anyone weighing their next step with depression.
- Visit Us
Our Scottsdale Location
You’ll find Redefine in North Scottsdale, close to the 101 and the Scottsdale Airpark. It is within easy reach of Paradise Valley, Cave Creek and Fountain Hills, and of the wider Phoenix metro.
8245 N 85th Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85258
(888) 546-5580
Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM
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