Overview
The Indian River Hospital Behavioral Health Center in Vero Beach, Florida is a 46-bed inpatient psychiatric facility for adults 18 and older. We provide inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient therapy services, and intensive outpatient programs for adults with mental health concerns.
People may come to us through both voluntary and involuntary admissions. We follow a state-defined process called the Florida Baker Act for involuntary admissions. Our psychiatrists and behavioral health specialists are also integrated throughout our primary care offices and emergency departments, giving you quick access to mental health services when needed. We provide evidence-based, trauma-informed, compassionate treatment to help you manage mental health symptoms and live a high quality of life.
Behavioral Health Center: Why Choose Cleveland Clinic in Florida?
Patients who choose behavioral health services at Cleveland Clinic in Florida benefit from:
- Easy access to mental health experts: Our behavioral health experts work in several areas, including primary care offices and emergency departments (EDs). If you come through our ED, we aim to connect you with a board-certified psychiatrist within an hour or less. We prioritize your timely, seamless access to mental health treatment.
- Coordinated care: You’ll meet with all necessary providers in one sitting. This helps decrease the stress of repeating your story and symptoms and increases timely care coordination. We have strong relationships with mental health providers throughout our communities, so you seamlessly transition to outpatient mental health treatment when appropriate.
- Exclusive treatments: Indian River Hospital Behavioral Health Center coordinates electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a treatment that isn’t widely available on the Treasure Coast. This evidence-based therapy may be effective for some people with treatment-resistant depression.
Mental Health Conditions We Treat
Our psychiatric providers and behavioral health specialists treat a broad range of mental health conditions, including:
- Anxiety disorders
- Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
- Mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Schizophrenia
- Self-harm
- Suicidal or homicidal ideation
Inpatient Mental Health Treatment
The Indian River Hospital Behavioral Health Center in Vero Beach is a psychiatric treatment center for adults 18 and older. Our team includes psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, licensed clinical social workers, licensed mental health counselors, registered nurses, behavioral health technicians, recreational therapists, pharmacists and behavioral health safety officers. They work together to provide evidence-based, trauma-informed, effective mental healthcare. Our nursing and medical staff are able to answer any medication questions and help with medication safety.
We create individualized treatment plans to help you stabilize and transition to outpatient care. Based on your needs, treatment may include:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): CBT, or talk therapy, is one of the most common types of psychotherapy. A therapist helps you identify unhelpful or untrue thought patterns and understand how those thoughts influence your behavior. You typically build problem-solving and coping skills so that you can change your thinking and actions.
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT): This structured psychotherapy combines group and individual therapy sessions. It helps you build skills to regulate your emotions and navigate social situations. You learn mindfulness practices, emotional regulation strategies, healthy interpersonal communication and how to tolerate distress.
- Group therapy: One or more therapists lead a small group in one-hour sessions. These groups often include people who experience similar challenges, such as substance abuse, anxiety or depression. Group therapy can often help you feel more connected to and supported by others. Many people experience a sense of relief when they know they aren’t alone.
- Music therapy: You spend time with a certified music therapist who provides live acoustic music for therapeutic purposes.
- Pet therapy: You spend time interacting with a trained animal, often a cat or dog. Spending time with animals during pet therapy can promote calm, reduce pain and decrease anxiety.
- Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT): This psychotherapy focuses on your current circumstances and goals. A therapist helps you build the skills to achieve the future you want and cope with everyday challenges. SFBT is grounded in the principle that you already know what kind of change you’d like to make in your life.
- Medication management: Medicines such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications or mood stabilizers are useful for many people with mental health conditions. Our psychiatrists can help you understand your medication options and make personalized recommendations for an effective medication type and dose.
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): In ECT, a specially trained doctor uses a small electrical current to induce a brief, therapeutic seizure. You will have general anesthesia so you don’t feel anything during treatment. Research has shown that ECT can be effective for some patients with depression or bipolar disorder that hasn’t improved with other treatments.
Intensive Outpatient Program
The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) at the Indian River Hospital Behavioral Health Center is part of a full continuum of behavioral health services for adults. A middle step if you need more than traditional outpatient therapy, IOP provides a way of helping you move from inpatient care or to move from an inpatient unit back into the community. This unique, voluntary program allows you to still go to work or school while learning mental health management skills.
How the program works
Our IOP offers structure, support, and accountability to assist you in your change journey. We’ll help you develop resiliency and coping strategies, using a supportive and structured approach. Our group therapy sessions are led by licensed clinicians who meet with small groups of 8-12 people three times a week, for three-hour sessions.
Our evidence-based, trauma-informed programming includes:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Life skills/social skills
- Medication management (if needed)
- Individualized treatment planning sessions to assist with goal development and progress
Benefits of IOP
Our Intensive Outpatient Program is voluntary and allows you to learn coping strategies and practice skills while living at home, engaging with family, working or going to school. Group topics focus on building skills for regulating emotions, increasing distress tolerances, improving communication with others, maintaining personal safety and symptom management.
A team approach to care
Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital’s therapeutic team of board-certified psychiatrists, licensed clinicians, nurse practitioners and experienced mental health technicians are committed to delivering high-quality, personalized behavioral health care in a safe, caring environment.
Our care team provides:
- Initial diagnostic evaluation
- Psychiatric assessment
- Individualized treatment planning
- Ongoing medication management and treatment plan reviews
- Additional services outside of group therapy (as needed)
- Access to caregivers weekdays during normal business hours
Program eligibility
If you’re living with mental health struggles, including co-occurring substance use disorders, you can participate in the Intensive Outpatient Programs. A physician order is required, and a psychiatric evaluation will be completed to ensure that this is the right level of care for you. IOP is currently available for all Indian River County residents.
Referral and contact information
Enrollment in the program is open, and admissions will be considered on an ongoing basis. To refer a patient to IOP or to find out more information about this program, please call the Indian River Hospital Behavioral Health Center at 772.226.4162.
Appointments & Locations
Make an appointment at a Cleveland Clinic location in Florida, or schedule a virtual visit.
