Weekly drug and alcohol treatment around your work
Which outpatient rehab fits life in Fort Lauderdale?
Our outpatient rehab gives you drug and alcohol treatment in one or two sessions a week, so you keep living and working in Fort Lauderdale while you stay connected to care.
Sessions run at our licensed facility in Pompano Beach, about 12 miles north.
Admissions verifies your insurance on the first call and books your first session within days.
Who is outpatient rehab for in Fort Lauderdale?
Outpatient rehab is for you if your drinking or drug use is milder, your home is stable, or you are stepping down from a higher level of care.
The signs that point to standard outpatient:
- You can get through a day without drinking or using, but it is getting harder
- You have finished a live-in stay, PHP or IOP and want to stay connected
- You want help early, before it costs you a job or a relationship
- You have a partner, family or friends who back your recovery
If cutting back leaves you shaky or sick, you need detox first, and if you need more than a session or two a week, IOP in Fort Lauderdale gives you more hours. Admissions tells you plainly which level fits.
Which services does outpatient rehab include?
Outpatient rehab is treatment you attend while living at home: individual counseling, group therapy and medication support, in one or two sessions a week.
Each week you see your therapist one to one, join a group focused on relapse prevention and coping skills, or both. Your therapist adds family sessions when they help. If you take medication for cravings, your prescriber reviews it at your visits.
It is the lightest level of care on the continuum, and it works best as a step down from more intensive treatment or as early help before things get worse. Our main outpatient alcohol treatment page covers the full range.
Can you keep working during outpatient rehab?
Yes. We book your sessions outside your working hours and outside the worst of the I-95 traffic, and your therapist keeps the same slot each week.
From Coral Ridge or the north end of the city, the drive is about 15 minutes. From Rio Vista or the south side near the airport, allow closer to 30 at busy times. Late afternoon northbound traffic is the one to plan around, and admissions builds your schedule with that in mind.
Fort Lauderdale calls itself the Venice of America, and if your weekends happen on the water, your sessions sit on weekdays so they never compete with the marina. If your employer runs an employee assistance program (EAP), it can refer you to us directly.
What makes our outpatient rehab right for Fort Lauderdale?
One or Two Outpatient Sessions a Week
Counseling, group work and medication review that leave your week your own.
The Same Outpatient Therapist Every Week
You keep one therapist, the same slot and the same day, so nothing restarts.
Weekday Outpatient Sessions
Sessions sit on weekdays, outside the weekend boat and beach calendar.
Outpatient Through Your EAP
Your employee assistance program can refer you straight in, and your employer learns only what the referral needs.
Step Up From Outpatient When You Need It
If cravings build, you move up to IOP with the same team and step back down after.
Outpatient Copay Per Visit
With insurance you pay a copay per session once you meet your deductible.
How long is the outpatient rehab drive from Fort Lauderdale?
Outpatient From Coral Ridge or the North End
About 15 minutes on I-95 or US-1, so a late-afternoon session fits before dinner.
Outpatient From Rio Vista or the South Side
Allow closer to 30 minutes at busy times. Admissions books your slot to miss the rush.
Outpatient Weekends in a Beach City
The city bans alcohol on its beach, and your relapse plan uses that: weekend mornings on the sand, not the dock bar.
How long does outpatient rehab last?
Your assessment sets the length, and your sessions ease down as you steady.
Your intake assessment, using the ASAM criteria, sets how many sessions a week you come and what you work on. As you hold steady, sessions move from twice a week to once, then to monthly check-ins and our alumni program. If things get harder, you step up to IOP for a while with the same team, then come back down.
Is outpatient rehab or IOP better for you?
Outpatient fits if one or two sessions a week keeps you steady. IOP fits if you need about 3 hours a day, several days a week, to stay sober.
Both let you live at home in Fort Lauderdale and keep working. The difference is how much structure surrounds your week. If you are early in recovery, have relapsed recently, or are coming out of detox, IOP gives you more support in the hours that matter. If you have finished a higher level of care and are holding steady, outpatient keeps you connected without taking over your schedule.
You can move between them with the same team, so the choice is never final.
What if outpatient rehab is not enough?
You step up to IOP or PHP with the same team, for as long as you need, then come back down.
Cravings that are getting stronger, a slip, or a hard stretch at home or work are all reasons to add hours, not signs that treatment has failed. Your therapist watches for them and raises the option with you early. Moving up a level takes a conversation and an insurance check, not a new intake.
Who treats you in outpatient rehab?
A licensed therapist who sees you every week, a prescriber if you take medication, and a case manager for the practical side.
You keep the same therapist from week to week, so you are never retelling your story. Your prescriber starts and adjusts naltrexone, acamprosate, disulfiram, buprenorphine or any other medication when it fits, and checks how it is working at your visits. Your case manager takes care of anything that touches work or family, including leave paperwork if you need time off.
Outpatient for Fort Lauderdale Residents
Weekly care you attend from home in the city.
Licensed Outpatient Therapists
Licensed therapists and a prescriber see you every week.
Outpatient Into Alumni Groups
Finish into our alumni program, with weeknight groups you can reach.
Which therapies does outpatient rehab use?
Cognitive behavioral therapy, relapse prevention, motivational interviewing and family therapy, with medication when your prescriber decides it fits.
Cognitive behavioral therapy works on the thoughts and situations that lead to drinking or using. Relapse prevention turns that into a plan for your real week: the drive home along Las Olas past the bars, the Friday after work, the friend who still uses, the boat party on Saturday. Motivational interviewing keeps your own reasons in front of you. Weekly counseling with medication alongside it is the pairing MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine’s guide to drug use and addiction sets out for addiction treatment.
How much does outpatient rehab cost in Fort Lauderdale?
Outpatient is the lowest-cost level of care, and with insurance your cost is a copay per visit once you meet your deductible.
Florida Blue and other Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, Aetna, Cigna and most plans sold in Broward County cover outpatient addiction treatment. What you pay depends on your deductible, whether we are in network with your plan and your copay per session.
Admissions checks your benefits for free on the first call and tells you the per-session figure before you start. No insurance? Admissions sets out the self-pay rate per session.
Is outpatient rehab confidential?
Yes. What you tell us stays between you and your care team, and HIPAA covers every word of it.
We book your sessions around your life, so nobody needs to know where you go on a Tuesday evening. If you use an EAP or take leave, your employer learns only what the referral or the form requires.
What happens after outpatient rehab?
You move into our alumni program, with a written relapse-prevention plan and a team you can call if things get harder.
Discharge planning runs through outpatient care. When you finish, you keep a place in alumni groups you can reach from Fort Lauderdale on a weeknight. The city’s ban on alcohol on the beach gives you seven miles of sand where nobody around you is drinking, and your plan builds in the recovery meetings held across the city every day. If you ever need more support, you step back into IOP with people who already know you.
How soon can you start outpatient rehab?
Within the same week you call.
Admissions runs a short intake assessment on the phone, verifies your insurance and books your first session. If the assessment shows you need detox or more hours of treatment first, we tell you on the call and set that up instead.
How do you start outpatient rehab from Fort Lauderdale?
Call admissions now. We verify your insurance on the call and tell you what is covered, what is open this week and which program you qualify for.
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