What We Treat
How We Treat
As the foundation of our evidence-based practices, Lifeskills offers Clinical Pathways, each led by a doctoral-level or licensed clinician with additional national certifications in their area of expertise, including a Substance Use Disorder Pathway and a Trauma Treatment Pathway.
Veteran-Specific Treatment
At Lifeskills, we provide a respectful, dignified, and supportive milieu in which each individual’s strengths are used for healing. Based on each client’s diagnosis and specific needs, treatment is tailored appropriately and may include:
- Case management
- Family therapy and a Family Support Program
- Group therapy
- Individual therapy
- Metabolic fitness
- Mindfulness, meditation, and yoga therapy
- Psychiatric medication evaluation, treatment, and management
Experiential activities also play a vital role in treatment and include beach trips, fishing, rock climbing, kayaking, equine work, and team building.
Locations and Levels of Care
We offer a true continuum of care with a multidisciplinary treatment team approach. Our clinicians provide the highest quality of clinical care at the detoxification, residential treatment, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient levels of care. Lifeskills clients can live at Osceola Village, one of our transitional living residences, while attending the partial hospitalization program (PHP) and the intensive outpatient program (IOP).
Clinically Excellent Veterans Treatment Team
As the Medical Director, Dr. Daniel Bober oversees the Clinical Pathways. Tailored programming for the Veterans Treatment Pathway is supported by Dr. Despina Karfis and Florance Davidson, LCSW, as well as a dozen other licensed doctoral and master’s level clinicians with multiple certifications in their areas of expertise.
Daniel Bober, DO
As the Lifeskills Medical Director, quintuple-Board Certified Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober oversees the Clinical Pathways. Dr. Bober served as a mental health policy fellow in the U.S. Senate through the American Psychiatric Association, allowing him to work with Congress to impact mental health policy, particularly for veterans and active-duty service members.
Despina Karfis, PsyD, CCTP
DBT-Intensively Trained
Florance Davidson, LCSW
Dr. Florance Davidson, a licensed clinician, and Marine Corps Veteran, is passionate about providing a non-judgmental, safe space to the veteran clients she serves. She is trained in Solution Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and has her certification in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Florance works with her clients to build an alliance of trust and understanding aimed at helping them achieve their goals and work towards attaining a better quality of life.