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The Lakes Behavioral Health
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Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.
Primary Level of Care
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.
Primary Level of Care
Provider's Policy
The Lakes partners with a wide range of health insurance providers on an out-of-network basis to ease the financial burden of rehab. Our team will work with your insurance provider to determine which services qualify for coverage and minimize your out-of-pocket expenses.
The Lakes Behavioral Health
The Lakes Behavioral Health
About The Lakes Behavioral Health
The Lakes Behavioral Health provides flexible, real-world recovery for clients with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders at its boutique outpatient center. Their small staff-to-client ratio allows them to build treatment plans specifically for each client, focused on building strengths, resilience, and optimism. The facility’s peaceful interiors and convenient access to major cities like Tampa and Orlando help treatment feel like a natural extension of daily life.
Take a Positive, Strengths-Based Approach
The Lakes combines clinical, experiential, and holistic methods to address not just addiction, but mind, body, and spirit. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches healthier ways to respond to triggers and manage cravings. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation skills. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) helps process painful memories safely, reducing emotional intensity and the risk of relapse. Yoga, meditation, and art therapy help clients reconnect with their bodies and emotions, supporting overall wellness.
Choose the Right Pace
The Lakes offers partial hospitalization (PHP) and intensive outpatient (IOP) programs complemented by nearby supportive housing for added convenience and accountability. PHP is ideal for clients who need focused, hands-on support most days. Each 5–6-hour day includes individual and group therapy, psychiatric care, and holistic practices. Clients in IOP are able to continue managing daily work and family responsibilities, typically attending sessions a few days a week, for a few hours each day.
Prepare for Long-Term Recovery
After completing treatment, clients aren’t left on their own. Many who graduate from PHP continue care through The Lakes’ IOP or outpatient programs to keep building on the progress they’ve made. The Lakes also helps clients create an aftercare plan that may include community support groups, therapy, and relapse-prevention strategies to help them stay grounded in recovery.
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Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.
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Meet Your Care Team
Cory Bickham
Director
Liz Hall
Clinical Leader
Dr. Lisa Donovan
Clinical Advisor
MD
Your Care Options
Specializations
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety, insomnia, and seizures. They can be habit-forming and may cause drowsiness, memory problems, and dependence.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
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.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Who We Treat
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.
Pregnant Women
Addiction and mental health treatment meets the clinical and psychological needs of pregnant women, ensuring they receive optimal care in all areas.
Treatment Services
Day Treatment
Also commonly called PHP, patients may live at home or in a recovery residence while following an intensive treatment program. Most have a weekly schedule of M–F and 4 to 6 hours per day.
Intensive Outpatient Program
In an IOP, patients live at home or a sober living, but attend treatment typically 9-15 hours a week. Most programs include talk therapy, support groups, and other methods.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Personalized Treatment
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
Strengths-Based
Providers using a strengths-based philosophy focus on the positive traits of their patients, creating a positive feedback loop that grows confidence.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Experiential Therapy
With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.
Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
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Conditions We Treat
ADHD, ADD
ADD and ADHD are neurodevelopmental conditions that affect attention, focus, organization, and impulse control, often impacting daily life, school, work, and relationships.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
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.
Grief and Loss
Grief is a natural reaction to loss, but severe grief can interfere with your ability to function. You can get treatment for this condition.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Perinatal Mental Health
Perinatal mental health refers to emotional and psychological well-being during pregnancy and the first year after childbirth.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety, insomnia, and seizures. They can be habit-forming and may cause drowsiness, memory problems, and dependence.
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 is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine use.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive opioid that produces feelings of euphoria and relaxation. Its use carries serious risks, including overdose and dependence.
Marijuana
Marijuana is a psychoactive substance derived from cannabis. It can affect mood, memory, coordination, and perception, with varying effects between individuals.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a powerful stimulant that increases energy and alertness. Repeated use can lead to addiction and significant physical and mental health risks.
Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
Learn More About the Center
When Talking Isn’t Enough
Read about the range of experiential therapy techniques used for healing at The Lakes.
The Lakes’ Approach to PHP Addiction Treatment
Learn what makes The Lakes’ partial hospitalization program a highly effective treatment option.
How The Lakes Approaches Intensive Outpatient Treatment
Discover how this level of care allows patients to practice recovery skills in real-world settings.
Transformative Treatment Solutions For Mental Health Disorders
Explore the range of co-occurring mental health conditions treated at The Lakes.