Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale
Residential Program
4841 NE 20th Avenue | Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Admissions

Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale
Detox and Subacute
Residential
Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale
Residential Program
4841 NE 20th Avenue | Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Admissions


Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale: Residential Program
4841 NE 20th Ave.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Admissions:

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.
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Treatment Overview
We believe that each person can change with the proper support. Our programming is built on a foundation of evidence-based best practices, integrated care, life skills training, and family support, with clinical pathways led by doctoral-level or licensed clinicians who create tailored and flexible treatment plans that empower each person to sustain long-term recovery.
In addition, clients participate in life skills groups designed to help facilitate a seamless shift towards independent living. These groups encompass activities such as resume building, interviewing, cooking, menu planning, budgeting, and more.
What We Treat
How We Treat
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive processing therapy (CPT)
- Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT)
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) & radically open DBT (RO-DBT)
- Exposure & ritual Prevention (ExRP) therapy
- Eye movement desensitization & reprocessing (EMDR)
- Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
- Seeking safety
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A Full Continuum of Care
At Lifeskills, we offer several levels of treatment based on where clients are in their recovery. Our levels of care include detoxification services, residential treatment, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs, as well as transitional living. Clients move through their treatment program as they progress toward recovery.
Our treatment programs include:
- Detox Program: Our medical detox program offers a critical first step in the recovery process with personalized care to manage the physical, psychological, and medical aspects of withdrawal. Led by quintuple board-certified Dr. Daniel Bober and supported by 24/7 nursing staff, clients receive expert monitoring, comfort-focused care, and a safe foundation for their recovery journey.
- Residential Program (RTC): Providing structure and safety with round-the-clock supervision and care, residential treatment includes a high staff-to-client ratio, 24-hour staffing, and a wide variety of individualized evidence-based therapies, education, and support.
- Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP): Designed as a solid bridge for those stepping down from residential care or as a program to prevent hospitalizations, PHP offers clients increased independence to practice learned skills in real-life situations while maintaining structured therapy.
- Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP): Our IOP was designed to help individuals who are experiencing an increase in distressing symptoms and behaviors or are not progressing with traditional outpatient services. The additional support and treatment foster meaningful improvement and create a solid foundation.
Detox Program
Our detox program offers top-level care in a comfortable, supportive setting with just eight beds for close oversight. Located on the Holy Cross Hospital Campus, we’re just 150 yards from the ER for immediate medical needs.


Family Program
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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Clinical Groups at Lifeskills Fort Lauderdale
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Group
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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