Mental Health Care in Miami, FL

Nicklaus Childrens Hospital

What Does Nicklaus Childrens Hospital Offer?

Nicklaus Childrens Hospital is a mental health facility at 3100 SW 62 Avenue, Miami, Florida, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

3100 SW 62 Avenue
Miami, FL 33155

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 Nicklaus Childrens Hospital

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • Private or Community foundation
  • State education agency funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Persons with eating disorders
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Perphenazine
  • Pimozide
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Thioridazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • 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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