Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale:
Detox and Subacute Residential

Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale: Detox and Subacute Residential

Our mental health treatment center in South Florida is dually licensed to treat primary mental health and substance use disorders.

Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale Program Overview

The Lifeskills – Fort Lauderdale campus offers exceptional care for individuals dealing with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. We provide state-of-the-art residential services to individuals who face complex co-occurring challenges and specific health-related medical complications.

Our services are tailored to those who are resistant to medication, exhibit risk-taking behavior, and those who have undergone multiple treatment episodes. Lifeskills provides 24/7 nursing support in a structured and supportive therapeutic environment for the best possible care.

Non-Traditional Level 1 Residential Program

The Lifeskills – Fort Lauderdale campus offers exceptional care for individuals dealing with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. We provide state-of-the-art residential services to individuals who face complex co-occurring challenges and specific health-related medical complications.

Our services are tailored to those who are resistant to medication, exhibit risk-taking behavior, and those who have undergone multiple treatment episodes. Lifeskills provides 24/7 nursing support in a structured and supportive therapeutic environment for the best possible care.

What and How We Treat

What We Treat

The psychiatric and substance use conditions treated at Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale include but aren’t limited to:
  • Content Thought Disorders including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Delusional Disorders, and Bipolar Disorder
  • Formal Thought Disorders including Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, and Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder
  • Personality Disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with Extreme/Chronic Distress
  • Mood Disorders including Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety
  • Various Substance Use Disorders

How We Treat

In a safe, tranquil, private environment that includes a pool and outdoor spaces for walking, meditation, and reflection, our new campus has a chef on site to create menus based on our clients’ nutritional needs. At Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale, we offer Clinical Pathways based on each client’s needs, including:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Pathway
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Pathway
  • Substance Use Disorder Pathway
  • Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT) Pathway
  • Trauma Treatment Pathway
  • Metabolic Fitness Pathway

Clinical Groups at Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale

As a part of our clinical pathways, we offer several evidence-based groups, including but not limited to:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Group is an empirically supported psychotherapy group that rests on the fundamental premise that pain, grief, disappointment, illness, and anxiety are inevitable features of human life. This group helps clients productively adapt to these challenges by teaching them to develop a greater psychological flexibility rather than engaging in counterproductive attempts to eliminate or suppress undesirable experiences.
Chemical Dependency DBT Group is a psychoeducational and curriculum-based group teaching the four modules of DBT along with the 12-step principles. This group utilizes specific sobriety principles to frame the skills of DBT. Since the challenges faced in sobriety can be unique, this group translates DBT practices into the world of sobriety.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Skills Group is a clinical and psychoeducational group that addresses short-term behavioral changes by helping clients challenge their cognitive distortions, increase their problem-solving skills, and reveal the relationships between their beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and the behaviors that follow.
Cognitive Remediation Group is an experiential and psychoeducational group utilizing cognitive remediation programming for increasing neuro-flexibility. Cognitive remediation helps clients improve their neurocognitive abilities like attention, working memory, cognitive flexibility, planning, and executive center functioning which leads to improved psychosocial functioning.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Group is a psychoeducational and curriculum-based group teaching the four modules of DBT: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. This evidence-based practice is the hallmark intervention for treating personality disorders, suicidal ideation and self-harm, and interpersonal conflicts. More recent evidence supports that DBT can also treat mood disorders and substance use. DBT philosophy is rooted in the acceptance-change principles and balancing/synthesizing those dialectics.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ExRP) Skills Group is a clinical and psychoeducational group that takes the form of CBT to treat OCD symptoms. ExRP exposes clients to thoughts, images, objects, and situations that trigger obsessive thoughts and guides them through the event, helping them to avoid their usual compulsions and make different choices.
Meditation Skills Group is an experiential and clinical group specifically for teaching evidence-based skills for decreasing anxiety and maladaptive anxious patterns of behavior. This group focuses on teaching various stress reduction techniques and process thoughts and behaviors related to being “present” in their day-to-day functioning. These skills help clients gain self-awareness and insight regarding their disposition, challenges, and strengths.
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) Skills Group is a psychoeducational and curriculum-based group teaching principles of RO-DBT for coping strategies while addressing severe affect issues. RO-DBT is most known for linking the communicative functions of emotional expression to the formation of close social bonds via skills targeting social-signaling, openness, and flexible responding. RO-BT is supported by 30+ years of clinical research to treat chronic depression, OCD, treatment-resistant anxiety, and autism spectrum disorder.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Skills Group is a clinical and psychoeducational group that teaches clients the skills to decrease faulty thinking that leads to maladaptive and self-defeating behavior and emotional disturbances.
We also offer a robust Family Program that includes family therapy sessions, a virtual weekly family support/psycho-educational group, and a regular scheduled intensive Family Weekend Program. Post-treatment, family members can join a virtual Alumni Family Support Group for ongoing support.

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What Our Clients, Their Families, and Clinical Partners Are Saying

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"Amazing experience for 3 months. Helped me with duel diagnosis. I feel like a new person. Staff is great and very helpful and kind."
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"LifeSkills in south FL is really great for an adult like me and it taught me a lot about life and the real world they have a great team . They are really supported and they care about our safety and our future."
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"The program was very helpful. The staff is all very nice, from clinical to cleaning and cooking staff. I was able to work on myself and was pushed by my therapists. Dr. Bober was helpful in picking out the proper medication to help me feel better. I spent over 2 months here and I feel like I'm in a much better place than when I started. The level of care is very high here, if you need extra support with cooking and cleaning, as meals are prepared and laundry is done for you, and room is cleaned daily. I look forward to the step down to the Delray location where I can take charge of my life more."
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"In eight years of different esteemed treatment facilities and doctors, no one has come close to understanding the complex nature of our family member’s situation, and worked WITH her — and within the “system” — to make bold strides in her recovery. In general, it feels like Lifeskills truly respects its clients, and the complicated nature of what they are going through. With so many treatment places that promise a lot, and deliver little, we are so indebted to Lifeskills for showing up."
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