- Licensed BHRF — Phoenix, AZ
Admissions accepts calls from families, hospitals & referring professionals
Admissions accepts calls from families, hospitals & referring professionals
A licensed behavioral health residential facility for men who have detoxed before and watched it slip away. Getting clean was never the hard part. Staying that way is, and that is what Step One is built for.
Welcome
Step One Behavioral & Residential is a licensed Behavioral Health Residential Facility in Phoenix, Arizona, serving adult men eighteen and older. The program runs around the clock across 51 beds and combines supervised residential care, individual and group counseling, case management, and nursing oversight into a daily structure built to hold past the first sober week.
For more than twenty-three years, beginning as a halfway house for men facing homelessness and addiction, this organization has done one thing well: help men build a recovery that is still standing after they leave.
Supervised residential
Individual & group counseling
Case management
Nursing oversight
Why Men Choose Step One
Step One is a nonprofit, and that decides who gets through the door. Through the Recovery Access Sponsorship Program, the organization works to keep treatment within reach for men who would be turned away anywhere that treats a bed like a product.
Success here is not a discharge date. It means back to work, back to family, and back into stable housing, because Step One was built by people who needed it to exist.
A Mission Before a Margin
As a nonprofit, every decision starts with what a man needs to recover — not what a bed can be sold for.
Recovery Access Sponsorship Program
A standing effort to keep the door open for men who would otherwise be priced out of treatment entirely.
Success Beyond the Discharge Date
Back to work, back to family, back into stable housing — because Step One was built by people who needed it to exist.
NOW ACCEPTING
Magellan
EverNorth / Cigna
Humana Behavioral Health
Aetna
Optum
Carelon
In-network contracts are in progress with the following AHCCCS health plans:
Testimonials
Clinical Authority
Structure without clinical depth is just supervision, and supervision does not change why a person uses. Step One pairs its residential environment with licensed clinical leadership, including Clinical Director James McCreary, LPC, and Medical Director Dr. Will Heise, supported by on-staff nursing.
Treatment draws on established, evidence-based methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and the Living in Balance curriculum. These are the working tools the team uses to help a man understand what drives his use and what to do when the pressure returns.
President
Clinical Director (LPC)
Medical Director
Board-certified in Addiction Medicine and Medical Toxicology, Dr. Heise provides clinical leadership, quality assurance, and evidence-based care practices to support sustained recovery.
Evidence-based modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Living in Balance
Most of the men at Step One are not fighting addiction alone. Depression, anxiety, trauma, and other conditions often sit underneath the substance use, and treating one while ignoring the other is how people end up back at the start.
Step One treats substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions together, in one place, by one team. You can see the full range of what the program treats across the Treatment Programs section.
Alcohol
Heroin
Fentanyl
Rx Opioids
Methamphetamine
Cocaine
Benzodiazepines
Marijuana
Polysubstance
Depression
Anxiety Disorders
PTSD & Trauma
Bipolar Disorder
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
Psychotic Spectrum Disorders
For Families and Referring Professionals
Some of the people reading this do not need a bed. You are a wife, a mother, a case manager, a hospital discharge planner, or a probation officer trying to move someone into a program before the window closes again.
Step One accepts referrals from families, hospitals, detox facilities, behavioral health providers, EAPs, and the court system, and the admissions team will walk you through what happens next. Call the admissions line and you reach a person who has had this conversation before.
Families
Hospitals & Detox
EAPs & Courts
Behavioral Health
CHECK YOUR BENEFITS
Send us your insurance details through the verification form, or connect with our admissions team directly. We’ll look over your plan and walk you through exactly what it covers, spelling out any costs up front. If your benefits do not go far enough, we’ll talk through private pay and whether the Recovery Access Sponsorship Program can help close the gap.
