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Tamarac, Florida, United States
The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center Florida
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The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center works with all major private medical insurance networks. If you don’t have medical insurance coverage or elect not to use it, we have reasonable self-pay rates and options worth exploring. We regret that we cannot work with state or federal (Medicaid or Medicare) insurance for mental health treatment at SBMHC.
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About The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center Florida
The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center, located in South Florida, is a treatment facility specializing in mental health and dual-diagnosis treatment. Founded by recognized thought leaders in behavioral health, the center offers a distinctive and comprehensive approach to treating mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and more. With strong emphasis on clinical excellence, The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center provides a full continuum of care including inpatient, Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP), day treatment, flexible intensive outpatient, and virtual options. The center treats mental illness with a backbone of clinical, spiritual, and psychiatric support, aiming to empower individuals to thrive in all areas of life. The center's intimate setting fosters a sense of community and human connection, prioritizing family involvement and empathetic, personalized care.
Dual-Diagnosis Approach to Treatment
The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center stands out with its proactive, nuanced approach to mental health care. As pioneers in the field, they specialize in effectively treating primary mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, OCD, and PTSD. The center prioritizes precise diagnoses and custom-tailored treatment plans, especially for those grappling with substance use disorders. By delving into the root causes of mental health issues and prioritizing the treatment of co-occurring disorders, they offer holistic and impactful care. Recognizing addiction as a mental illness that benefits from spiritual growth, the center integrates 12-Step support, allowing clients to explore faith in a personalized manner. This thoughtful approach aligns with each client's unique needs and significantly boosts their prospects for recovery and sustained health.
Diverse Therapeutic Offerings
A important feature of The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center is its diverse range of therapeutic offerings, which include research-backed therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). With a backbone of evidence-based treatment, the center then incorporates holistic therapies like yoga, sound therapy, and spiritual care to support emotional and spiritual healing. The center also offers specialized programs like the Career Launch Program, which supports clients in advancing their careers after treatment, and a family program focused on enhancing communication and resolving conflicts within the family system.
Commitment to Flexible and Individualized Care
The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center is committed to providing flexible treatment options, including day treatment (PHP) and intensive outpatient programs (IOP), to cater to varying levels of patient needs. Their approach is not bound by conventional rehab norms, allowing for innovative and outside-the-box clinical techniques. They utilize treatments like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), genetic testing, meditation, visualization, animal-assisted therapy, and more.The center's dedication to accurate diagnosis and individualized care allows each client to receive the most effective treatment plan, fostering long-term recovery and personal growth.
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Insurance Accepted
Provider's Policy:The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center works with all major private medical insurance networks. If you don’t have medical insurance coverage or elect not to use it, we have reasonable self-pay rates and options worth exploring. We regret that we cannot work with state or federal (Medicaid or Medicare) insurance for mental health treatment at SBMHC.
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Focus on Trauma
The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center emphasizes trauma as a key aspect of mental health treatment. Recognizing the profound impact of trauma on well-being, the center provides specialized therapies like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help patients process and heal from traumatic experiences. Holistic approaches, including mindfulness and therapeutic yoga, are also integrated to support emotional and spiritual healing. This focus creates a safe environment, empowering individuals to confront their trauma and foster resilience.
Empowering Clients through Evidence-Based Therapies
At the Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center, empowering clients is at the core of their treatment philosophy. Everything they do is geared towards optimizing the treatment of mental health conditions. The dedicated team of expert clinicians uses proven-effective techniques like dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients reshape their thought patterns and develop healthier coping strategies. With methods like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma resolution and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for fostering resilience, clients gain powerful tools for lasting change.
Treating the Family System
The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center recognizes that mental health issues impact not only individuals but also their families and intimate relationships. Their approach includes engaging family members and couples in therapy to achieve sustainable recovery. The center’s couples therapy program helps partners navigate relationship challenges while building a solid and fulfilling love and partnership. Couples can expect to work on a wide range of problems. By fostering healthy communication patterns and resolving conflicts, therapists help strengthen support networks.
Five Avenues of Treatment
The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center employs a unique "5 Lanes" philosophy, which includes clinical, psychiatric, medical, spiritual, and vocational avenues of treatment. This multifaceted approach allows for highly personalized care, recognizing that individuals respond differently to various therapies. The clinical lane focuses on evidence-based therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), while the psychiatric lane addresses medication management. The medical lane prioritizes overall health, the spiritual lane fosters personal growth, and the vocational lane supports career development.
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Center Overview
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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.
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
Young Adults
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
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.
Midlife Adults
For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.
Mild Disabilities
Adults with mild physical or intellectual disabilities receive treatment catered to their specific needs in a safe and clinically supportive environment.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Veterans
Patients who completed active military duty receive specialized treatment focused on trauma, grief, loss, and finding a new work-life balance.
Treatment Focus
This center specializes in primary mental health treatment and offers programs for co-occurring substance use. You receive collaborative, individualized treatment for whole-person healing.
Care Options
Treatment
Specializations
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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.
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.
Outpatient
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
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.
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."
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Family Involvement
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
Personalized Treatment
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
Twelve Step
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
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.
Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Trauma-Specific Therapy
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
Online Therapy
Patients can connect with a therapist via videochat, messaging, email, or phone. Remote therapy makes treatment more accessible.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
A type of cognitive therapy that identifies negative self-defeating thoughts and behaviors, rewriting beliefs to be positive, empowering, and present.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Localized magnetic pulses stimulate areas of the brain to increase brain activity and reduce abnormal functions.
Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Conditions We Treat
Pornography Addiction
A person with a porn addiction is emotionally dependent on pornography to the point that it interferes with their daily life and relationships.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
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.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
ADHD, ADD
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
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 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.
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 and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
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 abuse.
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 is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Psychedelics
Hallucinogenic drugs—like LSD—cause euphoria and increased sensory experiences. When abused, they can lead to depression and psychosis.
Aftercare
Experience
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Clients can bring their own pet(s)
For greater comfort and healing, pet-friendly treatment centers welcome dogs and animal companions to stay with their owners while they attend treatment.
Couples program
Using gentle clinical care, therapists guide patients and their partner through guided sessions to address issues and work towards lasting solutions.
Pet Friendly
For greater comfort and healing, pet-friendly treatment centers welcome dogs and animal companions to stay with their owners while they attend treatment.
Flexible technology policies
Centers with flexible technology policies allow professionals to stay in touch with work and give patients a greater sense of connection and normalcy.
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
Off-Site Activities
Off-Site Amenities
Professional Staff
BEN BRAFMAN, MS, LMHC
CO-FOUNDER, CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER
RICHARD SEELY
DIRECTOR OF PSYCHIATRY
LINDA DOLIN, MD
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
MICHAEL MALAMED
SPIRITUAL AMBASSADOR, TTA
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