Peace River Center - Lakeland Outpatient

With the vision to be a center of excellence for behavioral health and emotional wellness, Peace River Center serves children, teens, adults, and seniors throughout Florida with a range of behavioral health services. Their outpatient team creates treatment plans for clients with major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and behavioral concerns in children. They also support individuals managing both mental health conditions and substance use disorders (SUD).

Finding the Right Path to Healing

Peace River Center offers individual, family, and group therapy, along with psychiatric evaluations and medication management after an initial assessment. Their therapists use approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), child play therapy, sandplay, and parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT). They also work with infants and young children through infant mental health and attachment-focused therapy, with no absolute minimum age for therapy.

Support That Reaches Beyond the Therapy Room

Peace River Center also connects eligible individuals in Polk, Hardee, and Highlands counties with community resources through their Care Coordination program. With a referral, clients can receive help accessing housing, food, transportation, and supported employment. The center also offers remote appointments with therapists and psychiatric providers through telehealth, as well as outpatient substance use counseling for teens, adults, and their families.