Sylvia Brafman Mental Health CenterIOP Program in Tamarac, FL
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The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center is a mental health treatment center specializing in primary mental health diagnoses and co-occurring substance use disorders. Founded by Jaime Blaustein and Ben Brafman, the center addresses a gap in quality, evidence-based treatment focused on mental health rather than substance abuse. The center employs a unique "5 Lanes" approach that simultaneously addresses clinical, psychiatric, medical, spiritual, and vocational aspects of treatment. The program emphasizes trauma-informed care, family involvement throughout treatment, and long-term recovery planning. The center offers rigorous assessment and continuous evaluation of primary mental health conditions, complemented by innovative modalities such as TMS and genetic testing. Treatment is individually tailored and designed to move patients from existing to thriving. The center operates as an intimate facility with a cohesive team of five mental health experts, each pioneering their respective lane of treatment.
Role
IOP Program
Specialties & focus areas
Co-occurring
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Transitional housing, halfway house, or sober home
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Setting
- Outpatient
- Outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Case management service
- Mental health services
- Suicide prevention services
Education & counseling
- HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
- Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Substance use disorder education
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Individual counseling
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Young Adults
- Adults
Special programs
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
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