Adolescent Wellness Academy (AWA)Residential Treatment in Fort Lauderdale, FL
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The Adolescent Wellness Academy (AWA) is a specialized teen therapy practice in South Florida serving adolescents ages 13-17 and their families. Located in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Boca Raton, Florida, AWA takes a family-centered approach to mental health care. The practice offers multiple levels of care including therapeutic day programs (PHP), intensive after-school programs (IOP), virtual IOP, individual teen counseling, psychiatry services, and an eating disorder program. AWA uses evidence-based treatment methods to help teens heal from mental health challenges while simultaneously providing support and care to parents and families. The organization is accredited by The Joint Commission and has received The Gold Seal of Approval. Services are available in both English and Spanish.
Role
Residential Treatment
What a first session looks like
Virtual & In-PersonBook a free consultation by calling 1-754-289-5136.
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Activity therapy
Activity Therapy. Structured therapeutic activities, recreation, movement, hands-on tasks, used as a vehicle for connection and emotional regulation. Often paired with talk therapy in residential and group programs.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
Couples/family therapy
Family Therapy. Brings the people closest to the recovery into the room. Less about blame, more about updating the patterns that fed the cycle so the home becomes part of the recovery.
Dialectical behavior therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Pairs acceptance with change. Especially useful when emotions feel too big to ride out without acting on them.
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.
Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
Integrated Treatment. Treats addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions in the same plan, rather than sequentially. Most clinically effective when both are present.
Individual psychotherapy
Individual Psychotherapy. One-to-one sessions with a licensed clinician. The standard-bearer of mental-health care; most evidence-based plans build around it.
Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
Telehealth Therapy. Real clinical sessions delivered over video. Same evidence base as in-person care for most conditions; meets you where you actually are instead of where the office is.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Mental health treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Setting
- Outpatient
- Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Facility
- Multi-setting mental health facility (e.g., non-hospital residential plus either outpatient and/or partial hospitalization/day treatment)
Emergency services
- Crisis intervention team
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Family psychoeducation
- Intensive case management
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Case management service
- Integrated primary care services
- Education services
Education & counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Children/Adolescents
- Adults
Special programs
- Members of military families
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Persons with eating disorders
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
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