Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT works on the interpretation of an episode, because deciding that dissociation means you are going mad makes the next one worse.
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Dissociative Disorder Treatment in Lantana, Florida
Olympic Behavioral Health offers outpatient dissociative disorder treatment at 3618 Lantana Road in Lantana, Florida, 12 miles south of West Palm Beach, and serves Palm Beach County.
Depersonalization derealization disorder is a break in the sense of being present, described as watching yourself or as the world looking unreal.
Our JCAHO-accredited, DCF-licensed dissociative disorder program covers depersonalization and derealization treatment for adults 18 to 65, at PHP, IOP or OP, with grounding work, trauma-informed therapy and psychiatry on site. Grounding skills come first and cognitive behavioral therapy second. Dissociative identity disorder is not treated here.
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What This Page Is For
What Dissociative Disorder Treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health Covers, and What It Does Not
Dissociative disorder treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health covers depersonalization, derealization and dissociative amnesia, and excludes dissociative identity disorder. Treatment runs at three outpatient levels in Lantana, Florida: PHP, IOP and OP.
Dissociation is a break in the ordinary sense of being present in your own life, and it feels like detachment from reality. Mild dissociation is an ordinary experience; it becomes clinical when it arrives uninvited, lasts, and costs a client hours or decisions.
Dissociative amnesia, the loss of time a person cannot account for, is treated here alongside depersonalization derealization disorder.
Dissociative identity disorder is not treated at Olympic Behavioral Health. A caller asking about it is told on the first call rather than after an assessment.
What This Feeling Is Actually Called
Pick the PhraseMost people arrive without the vocabulary for this and apologize for how strange it sounds. Pick whichever phrase is closest to yours and see what it is usually called.
Like I am watching myself
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The word for it
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Worth a call when
Appears here.
Nothing here is scored and nothing here is a diagnosis. These are phrases people actually use at intake, and only a clinical assessment establishes whether a diagnosis applies to any of them.
When to Get Help
Dissociation Symptoms That Interrupt a Working Day
The dissociation symptoms that matter are the ones costing you time or decisions. Olympic Behavioral Health admits adults aged 18 to 65 after a phone assessment, and no prior diagnosis is needed to make that call.
Depersonalization and derealization arrive alongside anxiety, panic and trauma, which is why the Olympic Behavioral Health assessment looks wider than the dissociation. Post-traumatic stress reached 3.6 percent of the 1,452 Florida adults in Acierno and colleagues' 2007 hurricane survey, and trauma screening runs on every intake. Callers describe five things:
- ✓Lose stretches of time they cannot account for
- ✓Watch themselves act from a short distance away
- ✓Find the world looks flat or staged
- ✓Drink or use to feel present, or to stop feeling present
- ✓Have been told the dissociation is anxiety, and know that is not the whole of it
Describe It in Your Own Words
Nobody needs the clinical word for it. The call costs nothing, commits nobody, and takes about 30 minutes.
What to Expect
Depersonalization Treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health
Depersonalization treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health begins with grounding skills and then works on the trauma or panic underneath. Every level includes weekly individual therapy of 50 minutes to 1 hour plus daily groups.
Dissociative disorder therapy turns to what the dissociation is protecting against, and the plan routes into trauma treatment or EMDR from there. Olympic Behavioral Health writes depersonalization disorder treatment into the same plan as the anxiety or trauma driving it. Three things run alongside the therapy hours:
- ✓Screening at intake for trauma, anxiety and substance use alongside the dissociation
- ✓Daily group therapy on the mental health track, where grounding for dissociation is practiced rather than described
- ✓Medication reviewed on site by a certified family nurse practitioner, for the anxiety or trauma under the dissociation
Levels of Care
Which Dissociation Treatment Level Fits, and How Long
PHP, IOP and OP are the three levels of dissociative disorder treatment, and which one fits is decided case by case. Average stay at the two intensive levels runs 30 to 45 days, and Olympic Behavioral Health reviews the placement as the grounding gets reliable.
| Level of Care | Hours per Week | Schedule | Clinical Content | Admission Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHP, Partial Hospitalization | 30+ hours | Weekdays 9 AM to 3:30 PM, weekends 10 AM to 1 PM | Daily groups, individual sessions, psychiatric review, family therapy | Losing hours, and placed after clinical assessment |
| IOP, Intensive Outpatient | 9 to 12 hours | Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 12 PM | Morning groups, weekly individual therapy, medication management | Working, and going absent inside the day |
| OP, Outpatient Dissociative Disorder Therapy | 4 hours | One 3-hour group each week | Group work, coping skills, relapse prevention | Grounded most days, still working on the cause |
Grounding gets taught before anything else gets touched. A client who leaves the room mentally cannot use therapy about why they leave it. Every level starts with skills that bring you back, and the deeper work waits until those hold reliably. Olympic Behavioral Health sequences dissociation treatment that way, because numbness lifts before insight does.
Ask What Dissociation Treatment Involves
Admissions can tell you in one call whether this is something the program treats. Same-day admission is available when criteria are met.
Evidence-Based Therapies
Grounding First, Then CBT and the Cause
Six therapies make up dissociation treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health, and grounding is taught before any of the others. The order is set with each client at intake.
Grounding Skills
Sensory anchors, breath and orientation drills, practiced in session so they are available when dissociation arrives.
Group Therapy
Group runs daily on the mental health track, and hearing another client describe dissociation accurately lands harder than an explanation.
Individual Therapy
Weekly one to one sessions with an Olympic Behavioral Health therapist who holds the case through every level of dissociation treatment.
DBT Skills Training
Distress tolerance and emotion regulation, useful where the dissociation arrives on top of panic or anger.
Medication Management
A certified family nurse practitioner reviews medication on site, with psychiatrist referrals available. Prescribing addresses the anxiety or trauma underneath rather than the dissociation itself.
No medication is named here, because no drug is approved specifically to treat depersonalization, and prescribing follows the psychiatric evaluation.
Conditions Treated
Derealization Treatment, Anxiety and Trauma Together
Four conditions are named alongside dissociation at intake: anxiety and panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and substance use disorder. Olympic Behavioral Health writes each one onto the same treatment plan rather than treating the dissociation alone.
Anxiety and Panic
Derealization treatment runs alongside panic disorder treatment, because feeling unreal is part of a panic attack.
PTSD Treatment
Dissociation is a recognized feature of post-traumatic stress. Where flashbacks are running, Olympic Behavioral Health routes the client onto the trauma track.
Depression Treatment
Where flatness and detachment sit closer to low mood than to dissociation, the plan treats the depression as the primary problem.
Substance Use
Substance use alongside dissociation is asked about directly at intake, including drinking or using to feel present or to stop feeling present.
Where dissociation and substance use are both running, Olympic Behavioral Health treats them together on the dual diagnosis track. The program treats adults only.
Insurance and Cost
What Dissociative Disorder Therapy Costs in Florida
Dissociative disorder therapy bills as an outpatient behavioral health benefit. Olympic Behavioral Health is in-network with TRICARE, works with PPO plans on out-of-network benefits, and confirms the cost before admission rather than after the first week.
Coverage follows the level of care rather than the diagnosis label, so the benefit check is worth doing before you settle on which level of dissociative disorder treatment you want. Olympic Behavioral Health accepts Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, UMR, GEHA, Humana and Anthem on out-of-network PPO benefits.
INSURANCES WE ACCEPTTRICARE is the only in-network plan. Every other payer named is out-of-network for dissociative disorder treatment. Olympic Behavioral Health does not accept Medicaid or Medicare.
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Why Olympic Behavioral Health
Why Dissociation Treatment Includes the Cause
Grounding alone stops the episodes without touching what produces them. Six parts of the Olympic Behavioral Health program treat both, because grounding without work on the cause does not hold.
Grounding Before Anything Else
Grounding skills that bring you back into the room get taught before any dissociation work, because nothing else is usable until they hold.
Dissociation Named on the Plan
The dissociation is written onto the treatment plan rather than folded into the anxiety, so no client explains it again at each level change.
A Prescriber in the Building
Psychiatric medication management is provided in-house by a certified family nurse practitioner, with psychiatrist referrals available.
Screened for Trauma, Panic and Depression
Intake checks for trauma, panic, depression and substance use, because dissociation on its own is not the whole picture.
One Therapist Through the Step Down
The primary therapist assigned at intake stays as hours reduce, so each client tells the dissociation history once.
Dissociative Identity Disorder Excluded
The exclusion is stated on the first call, not discovered at intake. Depersonalization, derealization and dissociative amnesia are what the program treats.
Admissions
What Happens From the First Olympic Behavioral Health Call
Four steps run from the first call to dissociative disorder treatment: the inquiry, a free benefit check, a phone assessment and screening on day one. The Olympic Behavioral Health clinical director approves each admission.
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Call or Submit the Form
Olympic Behavioral Health admissions staff ask what the dissociation feels like and how often it comes. A relative can make the inquiry instead.
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Benefits Checked at No Charge
An Olympic Behavioral Health benefit check returns the payable amount at all three levels of dissociative disorder treatment. The check obligates nobody and takes minutes.
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Phone Assessment
Olympic Behavioral Health records how long the dissociation episodes last, what tends to set them off, sleep, drinking and daily function by phone. That call settles which level fits.
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Intake and Screening
Paperwork first, then the dissociation screen for trauma, anxiety and substance use. At intake Olympic Behavioral Health assigns a case manager and a primary therapist that day.
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Same-day admission available, subject to criteria.
Three Things for the First Call
- ✓Roughly how long the episodes last
- ✓Whether anything reliably sets them off
- ✓Insurance card and date of birth
Frequently Asked Questions
How to Stop Dissociating, and What People Ask
Grounding stops an episode in the moment, and the seven answers below cover dissociative disorder treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health: depersonalization versus derealization, causes, whether a diagnosis is needed first, and where in Lantana treatment runs.
How do you stop dissociating?
Grounding is what works in the moment. Naming five things you can see, holding something cold, and saying the date out loud all pull attention back to the present. Olympic Behavioral Health teaches these in session because interrupting an episode is not the same as treating what causes it.
What is the difference between depersonalization and derealization?
Depersonalization is detachment from yourself, the sense of watching your own actions from a short distance. Derealization is detachment from your surroundings, where rooms and people look staged or unreal. The two occur together often enough that the DSM-5 treats them as one diagnosis, depersonalization derealization disorder.
Does dissociating mean I am losing my mind?
No. Depersonalization and derealization involve no loss of contact with reality, and people experiencing them know the strangeness is coming from inside rather than from the world. That is the feature that separates dissociation from psychosis, and clinicians check it at intake.
Do you treat dissociative identity disorder?
No. Dissociative identity disorder is not treated at Olympic Behavioral Health, and the first call says so rather than an assessment finding it later. Treatment here covers depersonalization, derealization and dissociative amnesia.
What causes dissociation?
Trauma is the most common cause, and dissociation also shows up in panic, severe anxiety, exhaustion and heavy substance use. Because the cause changes the treatment, intake screens for all of them rather than treating the dissociation as the whole problem.
Do I need a diagnosis before I call?
No. Describing the feeling is enough to call Olympic Behavioral Health in Lantana. The phone assessment takes about thirty minutes and costs nothing, and the clinical assessment at intake establishes whether this program is the right fit.
Where in Lantana, Florida is dissociative disorder treatment provided?
Treatment runs at 3618 Lantana Road, Suite 200, Lantana, FL 33462. PHP, IOP and OP all run from that one Lantana address, so a step down in hours does not mean a change of building.
Client Reviews
The Google Rating Across 170+ Lantana Reviews
Olympic Behavioral Health holds a 4.8-star Google rating across more than 170 reviews. See these are real stories from Olympic Behavioral Health clients.
- ★★★★★
Olympic saved my life. I didn’t know who Emma was when I got there and forget thinking I could ever love her, but after 3 months… I know Emma and I love her. Shoutout to all the staff, techs, my therapist Stephanie, SuSu, Bronson, Dom, Kim, Andi, Lee, Kyle, Gina, Jackie and everyone else that played part in me getting back to where I need to be, with my babies. I’ll never forget my time there. 🩷
Emma · Google review
- ★★★★★
Going to Olympic was the best thing I ever did, and it definitely saved my life! The staff is amazing and demonstrate that they truly care for the patients, and they make sure you have what you need to be successful in therapy as well as your after care. I highly recommend Olympic and I am proud to be a. Alumni!!!
Debra Hayes · Google review
- ★★★★★
I’m incredibly grateful for my time here. The people here are what make this place special. From the therapists to the support staff, everyone showed compassion and patience. They didn’t just treat me—they understood me. I’m leaving stronger, clearer, and with tools I’ll carry for the rest of my life.
Aaron Smith · Google review
- ★★★★★
My experience at Olympic Behavioral Health was excellent. Everyone from the management to the techs was kind, caring, and supportive. They really make a strong team at Olympic. They pay attention to the individual and support your recovery and goals. I am glad I ended up at Olympic.
Patrick Willis · Google review
- ★★★★★
Olympic is a great place for recovery from addiction and mental health issues. The staff is amazing. The facilitators and therapists work hard and truly care for the clients. I highly recommend this place. Thanks
Charles Taffe · Google review
- ★★★★★
Truly changed my life. Came from residential program feeling ready to return home but decided to step to Olympic before I made the journey home. Best decision I ever made. It truly strengthened everything I learned and provides an opportunity to put it into practice. If you come with the right mindset and attitude you will truly be grateful. Love all the staff and alumni the support is truly out of this world. Love you and miss you guys!
Joshua Redfern · Google review
- ★★★★★
Olympic saved my life! When I first got there, I was absolutely against it, but Meg and her crew did some things different for me and made the place to fit me so that I would stay. They made me feel welcome and comfortable Which is hard to do! But it’s been amazing success that we had is truly unprecedented. They’re friendly and they know what they’re doing. God bless them!
Dirk Sanders · Google review
Clinical Team
Who Treats Dissociation at Olympic Behavioral Health
Our trauma-trained clinicians treat dissociation, because it sits closest to the trauma side of the program. Each client meets the therapist who will hold the case before any group begins.
APRN, FNP-C
Sabina has spent more than twelve years in addiction and mental health practice, and she reviews medication on site for clients in dissociative disorder treatment.
Clinical Director and Trauma Specialist
Lisa approves each dissociative disorder treatment admission and sets how far the trauma work goes before the grounding is reliable enough to hold it.
Amber Nagy, LMHC, MCAP
Trauma Specialist
Amber is EMDR trained and works the trauma that sits under the dissociation once grounding holds.
Clinically reviewed by Lisa Alleva, Ph.D., LMFT. Last reviewed August 14, 2026. Content on this page describes services at Olympic Behavioral Health and is not a substitute for individual clinical advice.
Visit Olympic Behavioral Health
Where Dissociation Treatment Runs in Lantana, Florida
Lake Worth, Boynton Beach, West Palm Beach and every other community in Palm Beach County reach Olympic Behavioral Health from one Lantana site.
Sessions run at 3618 Lantana Road, Suite 200, Lantana, FL 33462. The admissions line, 561-272-0800, is staffed 9 AM to 5 PM Monday through Friday, and all three levels of care run at this one address. Five things matter on a first visit:
- ✓Exit 61 on I-95 puts the building minutes from the ramp
- ✓Lake Worth and Boynton Beach are inside a 10-minute drive
- ✓Olympic Behavioral Health runs van service to every scheduled group
- ✓A family Zoom meeting runs Monday evenings, 7 PM to 9 PM
- ✓Every level is outpatient, so clients go home the same day
Emotional support animals are permitted at Olympic Behavioral Health.