Florida Helps

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Substance Use

Treatment Focus

This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.

Residential

Primary Level of Care

Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.

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Insurance

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Florida Helps is a safe, supportive environment where they believe every client has the potential for growth and healing, regardless of their past struggles. They offer detox, intensive inpatient, and residential care for a wide range of addiction and mental health disorders. Their addiction treatment specialists and mental health counselors deliver evidence-based care tailored to each clients’ unique needs, helping them heal mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Heal with Evidence-Based Therapies and Holistic Care

Florida Helps takes a compassionate approach to addiction and mental health treatment, promoting healing in the body, mind, and spirit. They combine evidence-based therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), family counseling, and relapse prevention with holistic practices such as yoga and mindfulness. Their licensed physicians, therapists, and counselors provide 24/7 medical care, personalized support, and a structured recovery environment. Clients transition back to daily life with a plan for continued success, including periodic in-person or remote check-ins to monitor progress and address challenges.

Treat Primary or Co-Occurring Mental Health

At Florida Helps, they believe that mental health is the foundation of lasting wellness. They are licensed to treat both co-occurring disorders in clients with addictions and primary mental health conditions. Their mental health therapy services use evidence-based approaches such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), trauma-focused care, and skills training to help clients manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. By addressing these mental health conditions, they empower clients to achieve emotional stability, build resilience, and enhance their overall quality of life.

Feel at Home in a Bright & Peaceful Setting

Florida Helps offers bright, modern accommodations designed to provide comfort and tranquility during recovery. Located close to both Fort Lauderdale International and Miami International airports, clients flying in for treatment are greeted by a team member and transported to the center, which is set on a sprawling lakefront. Florida Helps ensures a relaxing and supportive environment with its private rooms featuring en suite bathrooms, ample lounge space for reflection and fun, daily housekeeping, chef-prepared meals, and a snack bar.

Highlights from the Center

Highlights

These highlights are provided by and paid for by the center.

  • Customized Treatment Plans

  • Holistic Approach

  • Medically Assisted Detox

AT A GLANCE

Center Overview

Location
3600 Red Rd #501, Miramar, FL 33025 View Map
Primary Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental healt...

Treatment Focus

This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.

Accreditation
Joint Commission

Joint Commission Accredited

The Joint Commission accreditation is a voluntary, objective process that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations (like treatment centers) based on performance standards designed to improve quality and safety for patients. To be accredited means the treatment center has been found to meet the Commission's standards for quality and safety in patient care.

Typical Program Length
28 days
Founded in 2017
9 years in business
Occupancy
31-50 beds
Conditions We Treat
Anger, Anxiety, Bipolar, Codependency +6 More
Substance Use We Treat
Alcohol, Benzodiazepines, Co-Occurring Disorders, Cocaine +8 More
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(888) 616-4381

How to pay

Insurance Accepted

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Staff

Meet Your Care Team

Matthew Lee

Matthew Lee

Executive Director

 Pastel Kendrick

Pastel Kendrick

Director of Nursing

LPN

Bridgette Fong

Bridgette Fong

Clinical Director

LMHC-QS

Adam Kurisko

Adam Kurisko

Director of Operations

Address Unique Challenges in Men’s and Women’s Programs
Address Unique Challenges in Men’s and Women’s Programs
Florida Helps offers gender-specific addiction treatment tailored to the unique needs of men and women, recognizing their differing experiences with addiction. The men’s program enourages community, accountability, and life-rebuilding skills, while the women’s program addresses emotional and relational factors like trauma, self-esteem, and caregiving stress. By tailoring care to these distinct needs, Florida Helps helps clients uncover addiction’s root causes and build a personalized path to lasting sobriety.
Find Support in a Program Tailored for Veterans
Find Support in a Program Tailored for Veterans
Florida Helps recognizes the mental and physical toll deployment can have on veterans. Their veterans program offers one-on-one support, holistic therapies, and specialized programming designed to address addiction and mental health issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Veterans benefit from a structured and safe environment where they can find healing, learn healthy coping strategies, and develop skills for civilian life. The program also features veteran staff members who share similar experiences, creating a relatable and supportive community.
Work the Steps Toward Long-Term Sobriety
Work the Steps Toward Long-Term Sobriety
Florida Helps integrates 12-step programs into their comprehensive addiction treatment plans, recognizing the value of structured, peer-supported recovery. Clients participate in regular group meetings where they share experiences, offer mutual support, and work through the 12 steps collectively. This approach promotes a sense of community and accountability, which are crucial for sustained sobriety. By combining 12-step principles with evidence-based therapies, Florida Helps addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of recovery.
Rebuild Healthier Family Relationships
Rebuild Healthier Family Relationships
Florida Helps offers a family program designed to rebuild healthy relationships by addressing the dynamics of addiction and its impact on families. They educate families about addiction as a disease, teach them to identify and stop enabling and codependent behaviors, and provide tools to improve communication, empathy, and conflict resolution. By promoting healthy boundaries and coping skills, their program helps break the stigma of addiction and empowers families to work through the chaos it creates.
Care Options

Levels of Care

Everyone's recovery journey is unique. Whether it looks like residential rehab for 30 days, an outpatient program, or virtual therapy, you can find a level of care that fits your needs.
Detox
Typically the initial stage of treatment for substance use, focusing on medically supervised management of withdrawal symptoms.
Residential Rehab
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential substance use treatment is typically 30 days. Length can range from 14 to 90 days.
Sober Living
Not Offered at This Center
Transitional housing designed to support individuals recovering from substance use disorders offering a safe, supportive and structured environment for practicing long-term sobriety, while reintegrating back into daily living.
Outpatient
Not Offered at This Center
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Outpatient care typically offers a range of therapies and medical interventions individuals can attend alongside daily life.
Virtual & In-Home Care
Not Offered at This Center
The delivery of therapeutic services utilizing technology such as video conferencing, online messaging or phone calls, allowing for flexibility, comfort and increased access to care.
Co-Occurring Mental Health
Treatment for co-occurring mental health disorders, which affect the majority of individuals diagnosed, integrates care for mental health conditions with primary substance use. Personalized care plans are crafted to effectively address each condition simultaneously, optimizing the healing process.
Treatment

Your Care Options

Specializations

Family Program
Alcohol

Alcohol

Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Bipolar

Bipolar

This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.

Depression

Depression

Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.

Drug Addiction

Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.

Opioids

Opioids

Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.

Veterans

Veterans

Patients who completed active military duty receive specialized treatment focused on trauma, grief, loss, and finding a new work-life balance.

Who We Treat

Men
Women
Older Adults

Older Adults

Addiction and mental health treatment caters to adults 55+ and the age-specific challenges that can come with recovery, wellness, and overall happiness.

Young Adults

Young Adults

Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+

Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.

Men and Women

Men and Women

Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.

Approaches

Evidence-Based

Evidence-Based

A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.

Holistic

Holistic

A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.

Individual Treatment

Individual Treatment

Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.

Trauma Informed

Therapies

1-on-1 Counseling

1-on-1 Counseling

Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

This cognitive behavioral therapy teaches patients to accept challenging feelings and make the appropriate changes to reach personal goals.

Acupuncture
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Family Therapy

Family Therapy

Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.

Group Therapy
Life Skills

Life Skills

Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.

Medication-Assisted Treatment

Medication-Assisted Treatment

Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.

Languages

English

Conditions We Treat

Anger

Anger

Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Bipolar

Bipolar

This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.

Codependency

Codependency

Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.

Depression

Depression

Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.

Stress

Stress

Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.

Suicidality

Suicidality

With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.

Substances We Treat

Alcohol

Alcohol

Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.

Benzodiazepines

Benzodiazepines

Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.

Co-Occurring Disorders

Co-Occurring Disorders

A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.

Cocaine

Cocaine

Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.

Drug Addiction

Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.

Ecstasy

Ecstasy

Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.

Heroin

Heroin

Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.

Marijuana
Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.

Aftercare

Family Follow-up Counseling
Support Meetings
Alumni Events & Get-Togethers
Outpatient Treatment
Alumni Reunions
Support Meetings (on-site)
Aftercare Group Therapy
Experience

Care Designed for Your Needs

Personal Amenities

Air-Conditioned Rooms
Coffee Maker and Tea
En Suite Bathroom
Housekeeping
Private Rooms
Snacks
TV

Amenities

Access to Nature
Chef-prepared Meals
Outdoor Lounge

Special Considerations

Dietary Accommodations
Vegan
Vegetarian
Family Program
Gender-specific groups

Gender-specific groups

Patients in gender-specific groups gain the opportunity to discuss challenges unique to their gender in a comfortable, safe setting conducive to healing.

Halal
Kosher
LGBTQ group

LGBTQ group

Group therapy unites LGBTQ+ patients in a safe and culturally competent setting, encouraging peer support under the expert leadership of a therapist.

Other dietary needs (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, etc.)

Activities

Yoga

Yoga

Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.

AA/NA Meetings
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Further Research

The following therapies are included: acupuncture, group therapy and more.
Miramar, Florida, United States.
If you don’t see your insurer on the list below, give us a call because you could still very well be covered. This is only a partial list of the health insurance providers we work with regularly.
The typical length is 28 days.
Yes, they offer detox.
Florida Helps provides detox, residential and more.

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