Redefine Wellness & Treatment adds hormone and nervous system specialists

Redefine Wellness & Treatment in North Scottsdale is broadening its integrative mental health model with new specialists in hormone health and nervous system care. The move adds to the center’s psychiatric services and more than 20 existing modalities as it pushes a more whole-person approach to treatment.

Why it matters: - Redefine Wellness & Treatment is expanding care beyond traditional psychiatry to address links between mental health, hormones, stress and physical symptoms. - The Scottsdale center says the broader model is designed to give clients more personalized, collaborative treatment. - The added services may be especially relevant for women navigating perimenopause, menopause, PMDD and other hormone-related mood changes.

What happened: - Redefine Wellness & Treatment added new specialists to its North Scottsdale mental health center. - The expansion brings Dr. Lisa Bates, PharmD, MSCP, and Dr. Shelby Gillespie, D.C., onto Redefine’s multidisciplinary team. - The center also expanded treatment offerings alongside its existing psychiatric services. - Laura Ramos, co-founder of Redefine Wellness & Treatment, said the clinic’s model is built around the idea that mental and physical health are connected.

The details: - Bates is a clinical pharmacist and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner with more than 15 years of experience. - Bates focuses on the overlap between hormones and mental health. - Bates works with perimenopause, menopause, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, hormone replacement therapy and integrative wellness. - Bates uses individualized consultations to examine hormonal, nutritional and lifestyle factors tied to mood, anxiety, sleep, energy and cognitive function. - Gillespie is a chiropractor and founder of Higher Ground Healing Sanctuary. - Gillespie specializes in NetworkSpinal, a light-touch, body-centered approach to nervous system care. - Gillespie uses NetworkSpinal entrainments and nervous system education to help clients understand how stress, emotions and daily experiences affect the nervous system. - Gillespie’s approach emphasizes self-awareness, resilience, adaptability and healing through awareness of patterns shaped by past experiences. - Lindsey Dunning, PMHNP-BC, continues to provide psychiatric care at Redefine. - Dunning specializes in trauma-informed care, psychiatric evaluations and medication management. - Dunning also has experience in integrative psychiatry, women’s mental health and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. - Redefine’s service lineup includes more than 20 clinical and holistic modalities. - The list includes EMDR therapy, neurofeedback, Alpha-Stim, EXOMIND, PEMF, therapeutic breathwork, mindfulness, marma therapy, hypnotherapy, energy balancing, somatic experiencing, brainspotting, deep brain reorienting, cognitive therapy, and individual and group therapy. - Redefine also offers an intensive outpatient program, a partial hospitalization program and personalized therapeutic retreats. - Redefine accepts most major insurance plans for eligible services. - Redefine is founded by Laura Ramos and Dan Petersen.

Between the lines: - The expansion reflects growing demand for mental health care that treats symptoms as part of a larger mind-body system. - By adding hormone and nervous system specialists, Redefine is positioning itself as a more comprehensive alternative to standard outpatient psychiatry. - The clinic is also leaning into a wellness-oriented model that blends clinical care with holistic modalities and education.

What's next: - Redefine is directing prospective clients to redefinewellnessandtreatment.com for more information on the expanded services. - The Scottsdale center is likely to continue building around its integrative, multidisciplinary outpatient model as it grows its offerings. - The new structure may give the clinic more flexibility to serve clients seeking both psychiatric treatment and complementary wellness care.