Mental Health Care in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Compassion Behavioral Health

What Does Compassion Behavioral Health Offer?

Compassion Behavioral Health is a mental health facility at Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and partial hospitalization. It accepts private insurance, TRICARE and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, couples and family therapy and TMS.


Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

Types of Care at Compassion Behavioral Health

  • Outpatient
  • Partial hospitalization/day treatment

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • U.S. Department of VA funds
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Active duty military
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Aripiprazole
  • Clozapine
  • IIoperidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Supported housing
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services
  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Florida lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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