Outpatient Services

PRC offers therapy and psychiatric services in a collaborative setting so that care is connected for patients who may participate in more than one line of service. To get started with services please call 863.248.3311.

To our valued clients, we recognize at times call wait time may be longer than expected due to high volume; we appreciate your patience. If you have signed up for our client portal you can access the portal and send messages for medications or scheduling at your convenience. If you have not signed up for our client portal, please ask the representative the process for getting registered when they come on the line or complete the Client Portal Interest Form.

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About Our Outpatient Therapy and Psychiatry Services

Our therapists work with individuals to develop individualized treatment plans to help clients reach their mental health, wellness and recovery goals. We treat Adults and children.

Services include the following:

Intake assessment by a therapist – to establish services
Individual therapy
Family therapy
Group therapy
Psychiatric evaluations – After intake assessment
Medication management – After a psychiatric evaluation

Common disorders treated are: major depression, bipolar illness, anxiety, schizophrenia, ADHD and child behavioral disorders. We also treat co-occurring mental health and addiction disorders.

Telehealth Options

Peace River Center offers telehealth, the delivery of health services through video chat to qualified patients. Clients can meet with one of our skilled staff members from the convenience of their home or other approved location. Telehealth enables real-time communication remotely between patients and the therapist, psychiatrist, or primary care provider.

Peace River Center’s telehealth helps to break down barriers that can prevent treatment such as ongoing transportation challenges or the stigma of visiting a behavioral health office.

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Substance Use Treatment

Peace River Center’s Substance Use Services program is certified and licensed by the State of Florida and is a practical, effective and evidence-based approach to prevent unhealthy alcohol use, non-medical use of prescription medications, and the use of illegal drugs. We provide help for alcohol and drug dependent adolescents and adults, as well as their families. Our program features an abstinence-based treatment program model that focuses on the development of healthy behaviors and lifestyle choices. Every person has exceptional individual strengths – our goal is to help identify and build upon those unique strengths.

Our outpatient counseling provides treatment for adults and adolescents, their families, and/or their significant others who are affected by the use of alcohol or other drugs.

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Learn more about Substance Use treatment

Outpatient Therapy Enables Clients To

Engage with trauma-informed counselors who use evidence-based practices to help clients improve their mental health

Be restored from trauma and pain

Empower themselves through coping skills that help them handle life’s demands

Engage in wraparound services to help stabilize mental health and mental illness symptoms

Restore relationships and create healthy relationship habits

Empower themselves to achieve health and well-being, helping them live life to the fullest in the community of their choice

Evidence-Based Practices

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Attachment-Focused Therapy

Attachment-Focused Therapy allows the family and the child to learn how to play, accept healthy nurturing and touch, how to repair and change maladaptive beliefs about the world and the adults who care for children in healthy families. The therapeutic relationship is with the entire family but most importantly, the parents. The child learns to trust his family, to connect with his parents and siblings, and to challenge his world beliefs.

Child Play Therapy

Child Play Therapy is a way of being with children that honors their unique developmental level and looks for ways of helping in the “language” of children – play. Licensed mental health professionals therapeutically use play to help their clients, most often children ages three to 12 years, to better express themselves and resolve their problems.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems and changing unhelpful patterns in cognitions. (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes), behaviors, and emotional regulation. It was originally designed to treat depression and is now used for a number of mental health conditions, for example, anxiety.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that uses eye movement or some type of bilateral stimulation to help people heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that result from traumatic life experiences.

Infant Mental Health

Infant Mental Health emphasizes the importance of supporting the parent-child relationship, understanding typical child development, and each child’s unique temperament, learning positive behavior support strategies; and working to reduce family stress in order to help promote children’s mental health.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) provides treatment for young children with emotional and behavioral disorders that places emphasis on improving the quality of the parent-child relationship and changing parent-child interaction patterns. Children and their caregivers are seen together. The session is spent coaching caregivers in the application of specific therapy skills.

Sandplay

Sandplay is “hands on” psychological work, an adjunct to talk therapy. It is a therapeutic method that facilitates the psyche’s natural capacity for healing. In a “free and protected” space provided by a trained sandplay therapist, the client creates a concrete manifestation from his or her imagination using sand, water, and miniature objects.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy minimizes emphasis on past failings and problems and instead focuses on strengths and previous successes. There is a focus on working from your concern/situation and what you might want different.

Outpatient Locations

*Outpatient Services Location and Hours are subject to change without notice. For the most up-to-date information please call 863.248.3311.

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Avon Park

Central Florida Health Care
Outpatient Therapy and Psychiatry
950 CR 17A W, Avon Park, FL 33825
863.248.3311 | 863.452.3003

Hours: Monday – Thursday 8:00 am –
5:00 pm, Friday 7:30 am – 11:30 am

Walk-in Hours: Tuesday and Thursday
8:00 am – 10:00 am

Bartow

Outpatient Therapy and Psychiatry at
Bartow Crisis Campus
1255 Golfview Ave, Bartow, FL 33830
863.248.3311

Hours: Monday – Thursday 7:00 am – 5:00 pm, Friday 7:30 am – 4:00 pm

Walk-in Hours: Tuesday and Thursday
8:00 am – 10:00 am

Lakeland

Outpatient Therapy & Psychiatry at
Gilmore Health Campus
1835 Gilmore Ave, Lakeland, FL 33805
863.248.3311

Hours: Monday – Thursday 7:30 am –
6:00 pm
Friday 7:30 am – 4:00 pm*
Saturday 7:30 am – 11:30 am
Walk-in Hours: Monday 8:00 am –
10:00 am and
Tuesday – Thursday 8:00 am – 10:00 am and Tuesday – Thursday 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Lakeland

Outpatient Therapy & Psychiatry at
Lakeland CSU Campus
715 North Lake Ave, Lakeland, FL 33801
863.248.3311

Hours: Monday – Thursday 7:30 am –
7:00 pm
Friday 7:30 am – 4:00 pm*
Walk-in Hours: Tuesday and Thursday
9:00 am – 11:00 am

Lake Wales

Outpatient Therapy and Psychiatry
815 FL-60, Lake Wales, FL 33853
863.978.4800 | 863.248.3311

Hours: Monday – Thursday 7:30 am –
5:00 pm
Walk-in Hours: Tuesday and Thursday
8:00 am – 10:00 am

Wauchula

Peace River Center Outpatient Office
Outpatient Therapy and Psychiatry
213 E Orange St, Wauchula, FL 33873
863.248.3311

Hours: Monday – Thursday 7:30 am to 5:00 pm and Friday 7:30 am to 11:30 am

For Additional Resources

Care Coordination

Care Coordination is a SAMHSA-funded program serving Polk, Hardee, and Highlands counties. This grant aims to help adults diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness, co-occurring disorders, and children diagnosed with severe emotional disturbance. Clients who have experienced a Baker Act and have mental health symptoms impacting their daily functioning also qualify. Care Coordinators work alongside clients to explore community-based resources for housing, food, transportation, and more, in addition to therapy, substance use treatment, and psychiatry professionals.

Our Care Coordination program also assists with Employment Services. Peace River Center’s supported employment program provides individuals with behavioral health disorders with direct placement in competitive employment settings with support to help them succeed. An essential feature of supported employment is fair compensation. Wages and benefits must be the same as other workers in similar jobs receive. Referral required.

If you have any questions, please contact:
Simone Evans
Peace River Center
Care Coordination Project Supervisor
863.519.0575 ext. 6297
Simone.Evans@PeaceRiverCenter.org

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