AES — Alternative Education Solutions — is an Arizona Department of Health Services–licensed outpatient behavioral-health clinic. Our clinicians, counselors, BHTs, and intake professionals deliver court-approved DUI screening, evaluation, alcohol and drug treatment, anger management, domestic non-violence, and online education to clients across the state, in English and Spanish, in person and by telehealth. This page is about how we work and what we believe — not who we are by name. The work is the work.
AES is a licensed Arizona outpatient treatment clinic — not a "DUI school." That distinction matters. Education hours, screenings, evaluations, and treatment are all delivered under clinical supervision by Arizona-licensed practitioners, with the documentation Arizona courts, probation, and MVD actually accept.
We operate from a single Arizona clinic and serve clients statewide through live telehealth, online self-paced courses, and in-person sessions. We are approved for Court Diversion, probation supervision, and MVD reinstatement. We accept AHCCCS and most major Arizona commercial insurance carriers, and we run payment plans because cost should not be the reason someone misses a court deadline.
We do not all come from the same training or speak with the same accent. What we share is this: the four things below show up in how every AES clinician, counselor, and BHT does the work.
Our LPCs and counselors believe court-mandated does not mean less-than. Every client gets the same warmth, privacy, and respect — whether they're here by referral, by order, or by choice. The way we ask the first question matters as much as the question itself.
Our clinicians, BHTs, and other professionals practice from established frameworks — motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma-informed care, and relapse-prevention models grounded in current literature — not from assumptions about why someone is here. Curiosity, not conclusions.
Every program AES delivers — screening, evaluation, education, counseling, group treatment — is offered in English and Spanish, by bilingual practitioners, with culturally responsive materials. Language is never the barrier between someone and the help they need.
Our intake coordinators and counselors handle the documentation that courts, probation, and MVD actually require — in the formats each authority accepts — so the only thing the client has to focus on is showing up and doing the work.
We deliberately do not lead with individual bios on this page. The continuity of care a client experiences at AES is delivered by a team of Arizona-licensed practitioners across the disciplines below. Each AES program is staffed by practitioners trained for that program's specific clinical and regulatory requirements.
Lead individual and group counseling, supervise treatment plans, conduct clinical evaluations, and serve as the program-of-record practitioner where regulations require LPC oversight. They are the spine of AES's counseling and DV programming.
Our Master Addiction Counselors specialize in substance-use disorders. They run screenings and evaluations, design treatment plans for alcohol and drug programs, and lead group treatment cohorts. They are the practitioners most likely to handle a court-referred DUI matter end to end.
Bring family-systems training to AES's domestic non-violence program, trauma-informed work, and counseling. They coordinate with attorneys, child welfare authorities, and family courts when client situations require it.
Behavioral Health Technicians run intake, support group sessions, deliver structured education, and keep clients on track with reminders, scheduling, and the everyday momentum that makes finishing possible.
Handle the first conversation, verify insurance, run payment plans, gather court and MVD paperwork, and schedule the screening. Most clients describe the intake call as the moment AES started to feel different from other providers.
Master-level Arizona clinicians supervise the team, sign clinical evaluations where regulation requires, and own the standard of care across every AES program — including the documentation that goes to courts, probation, and MVD.
Intake takes about fifteen minutes. We confirm your situation, verify insurance, and identify what court, probation, or MVD documentation will be needed at the end.
An AES clinician completes the assessment the court, probation, or MVD ordered — or that you've come to us for voluntarily — and assigns the appropriate program format and hours.
Education, counseling, and group treatment are delivered by Arizona-licensed practitioners in the format that fits the client's life — in person, by telehealth, or self-paced online — in English or Spanish.
On the day you finish, AES issues the court-ready report, MVD packet, or probation completion letter in the format the receiving authority accepts.
AES is licensed by ADHS as an outpatient behavioral-health clinic — the same license category that governs substance-use treatment and counseling statewide.
AES programs meet the Court Diversion and probation supervision standards required by Arizona Superior, Justice, and Municipal courts.
AES is approved to conduct screenings, evaluations, and the Revocation Investigation required for MVD license reinstatement following certain DUI dispositions.
AES is a covered entity under HIPAA and observes the additional confidentiality protections required for substance-use treatment records under 42 CFR Part 2.
AES is not just a clinic — it's a community. We walk, we work, we show up.
Either way, the intake call is short and there is no obligation. Most clients begin their assessed program within 24 to 48 hours of first contact.
