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CBT works on what a racing heart gets read as in panic disorder treatment. Change the interpretation and the escalation loses its fuel.
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Panic Disorder Treatment Center in Lantana, Florida
Olympic Behavioral Health houses its panic disorder treatment center at 3618 Lantana Road in Lantana, Florida, 12 miles south of downtown West Palm Beach, serving Palm Beach County.
Panic disorder is repeated panic attacks plus a standing fear of the next one.
Our JCAHO-accredited, DCF-licensed panic disorder program treats adults aged 18 to 65 at partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP) and outpatient (OP), with exposure work and cognitive behavioral therapy. A panic disorder therapist holds the plan, with a psychiatric prescriber on site.
Panic attacks share symptoms with cardiac events, and a first attack needs a medical rule-out before anything else.
If you are thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It answers at any hour.
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What Gets Treated
Panic Disorder Treatment Works on the Fear of the Next Attack
Panic disorder treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health works on the fear between attacks, because that fear is what quietly rebuilds a week around the places worth avoiding.
An isolated panic attack is common and it is not a disorder. Adrenaline does what adrenaline does and the episode passes. What changes at the threshold is that panic disorder treatment has something continuous to work on, because the avoidance starts before the next attack does.
Olympic Behavioral Health runs panic disorder therapy at three outpatient levels in Lantana, Florida, with exposure work and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Panic disorder sits inside the anxiety family, and clients who need the broader picture can start at anxiety treatment instead.
How a Panic Attack Peaks and Passes
Five StagesFrom inside an attack it feels like it will keep climbing. It does not. Step through the shape of one and see where treatment acts on each part.
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This explains a pattern and diagnoses nothing. Chest pain, breathlessness and a racing heart have cardiac causes as well as psychological ones, and no web page can tell the difference. Anyone who has not had these symptoms examined by a doctor should do that before anything else.
Admission Criteria
When Panic Attacks Become Panic Disorder
Panic attacks become panic disorder when they repeat and the fear of the next one starts making decisions. Olympic Behavioral Health admits adults aged 18 to 65 on pattern rather than severity, after a phone assessment, and one frightening attack is not on its own an admission criterion.
An estimated 2.7 percent of adults in the United States had panic disorder in the past year, on National Institute of Mental Health figures collected between 2001 and 2003. The assessment asks what the attacks have changed rather than how bad they felt. Olympic Behavioral Health accepts adults who:
- ✓Have had repeated attacks rather than one isolated episode
- ✓Plan routes, seats and exits around where an attack would be survivable
- ✓Wake with nocturnal panic attacks that arrive out of sleep
- ✓Have been medically cleared and still get the same physical symptoms
- ✓Drink to make a journey, a meeting or a flight manageable
Get the Pattern Assessed, Not Just the Attack
A phone assessment costs nothing and takes about 30 minutes.
Inside the Program
How Olympic Behavioral Health Helps Between Panic Attacks
Panic disorder treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health is built client by client, because what a person avoids between attacks is particular to them. Every level carries weekly individual therapy of 50 minutes to 1 hour plus daily groups, and the primary therapist assigned at admission holds the case through every level change.
Treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health does not wait for a panic attack to happen in the room. Three things run inside every level:
- ✓Intake screening for depression, substance use and trauma symptoms alongside the panic
- ✓Daily group therapy for panic on the mental health track, kept separate from the substance abuse groups
- ✓Medication reviewed on site by a certified family nurse practitioner
Levels of Care
One Assessment Sets PHP, IOP or OP at Olympic Behavioral Health
Olympic Behavioral Health decides the level from a clinical assessment rather than from a default, and the table below sets out the hours, schedule and admission profile for each. Average length of stay at partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient runs 30 to 45 days.
| Level of Care | Hours per Week | Schedule | Clinical Content | Admission Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHP, Partial Hospitalization | 30+ hours | Seven days. Weekdays 9 AM to 3:30 PM, weekends 10 AM to 1 PM | Daily groups, individual sessions, psychiatric review, family therapy | Severe panic, 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, with the map of avoided places growing |
| OP, Outpatient Panic Disorder Counseling | 4 hours | One 3-hour group each week | Group work, coping skills, relapse prevention | Stepping down, or a lighter entry point |
Where drinking has become the coping tool. Panic attacks and alcohol run together, because alcohol works briefly and rebounds. Those clients enter the dual diagnosis treatment track with both conditions on one plan.
Get Assessed Between Attacks, Not During One
Same-day admission to panic disorder treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health is available when admission criteria are met, with next-day admission as the alternative.
Evidence-Based Therapies
How Exposure and CBT Reduce Panic Attacks
Panic disorder responds to exposure rather than avoidance. Pompoli and colleagues' 2018 analysis of 72 trials found exposure and face-to-face delivery to be the parts of cognitive behavioral therapy that raise remission most. That is why Olympic Behavioral Health runs both in person, and a clinician sets the order for each client.
Structured Exposure Work
Exposure sequencing for panic disorder approaches avoided situations in an order agreed in advance. The sequence is built with the client, never sprung on them.
DBT Skills Training
Distress tolerance covers the minutes a panic attack is actually running, so a client has something to hold rather than a plan to flee.
Group Therapy
Group runs daily on the mental health track, and the room is where an avoided situation gets named out loud before it gets approached.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback trains the arousal system that fires during an attack, and it targets the nocturnal panic attacks that break sleep.
Family Therapy
Households adapt around panic avoidance without noticing. Family sessions run weekly as needed, with a relatives meeting on Monday evenings.
Sleep, driving and crowded rooms are the three things clients ask to get back, and panic disorder therapy works each one as a named target rather than as a by-product.
Diagnoses Admitted
Avoidance, Alcohol and Low Mood Alongside Panic
Panic rarely stays on its own for long. At Olympic Behavioral Health each condition is named separately on one treatment plan.
When Avoidance Narrows the Map
Avoidance of places where escape would feel hard is what panic disorder does to a week, and where it meets the clinical picture of agoraphobia the same exposure work reaches it. Olympic Behavioral Health does not run a separate program for it.
Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Alcohol calms a panic attack for an hour and worsens the next day, which is how a coping tool becomes a second diagnosis. A DCF license covering both permits one plan.
Anxiety Treatment
Generalized worry can sit underneath panic attacks and needs separate work. The anxiety hub covers the wider picture.
Depression Treatment
Depression is screened at intake alongside panic disorder treatment, and both diagnoses go on one plan under one primary therapist.
Olympic Behavioral Health treats adults only, so panic in a younger client is referred to a service equipped for them.
Insurance and Cost
Paying for Panic Disorder Treatment With a PPO or TRICARE
Panic disorder treatment 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 payable figure before admission rather than after the first week.
Anyone comparing panic disorder treatment in Florida is weighing a weekly therapist against a program, and the honest comparison is hours rather than headline price. Olympic Behavioral Health accepts Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, UMR, GEHA, Humana and Anthem on out-of-network PPO benefits, and verification returns the figure before intake at no charge.
INSURANCES WE ACCEPTTRICARE is the only in-network plan. Every other payer named is accepted on out-of-network PPO benefits. Medicaid and Medicare are not accepted at Olympic Behavioral Health.
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Why Olympic Behavioral Health
Psychiatry, Groups and a Plan for the Next Attack
Psychiatry, daily groups and a plan for the next panic attack are what Olympic Behavioral Health adds to a weekly therapy hour. Six differences follow, and each one is something a weekly appointment cannot supply.
Exposure Practised, Not Described
Daily attendance is what separates panic disorder treatment from a weekly appointment, because avoided situations get approached repeatedly rather than discussed once a week.
A Prescriber in the Building
A certified family nurse practitioner reviews medication on site for panic disorder, with psychiatrist referrals available. A review does not wait on an outside appointment.
A Room Where This Is Ordinary
Groups run daily, and the panic symptoms that send someone to an emergency room get described out loud in them by people who have had the same ones.
Licensed for Both Conditions
The DCF license covers mental health and substance abuse, which is why panic disorder treatment and a drinking problem sit on one plan.
One Therapist Through the Step Down
The primary therapist assigned at panic disorder intake stays through each level, so the exposure sequence carries over intact.
Hours That Fit a Job
Intensive outpatient runs mornings only, so a working week can absorb panic disorder treatment alongside a job.
Admissions
First Call to First Group, and What Happens Between Them
Four steps run between the first call to Olympic Behavioral Health and the first group, and nobody needs a diagnosis in hand to start them. One call settles in about 30 minutes whether a panic disorder program applies.
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Call or Submit the Form
Olympic Behavioral Health admissions staff ask what the panic attacks have changed. A relative can make the call.
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Benefits Checked at No Charge
A benefit check returns the payable amount for panic disorder treatment at all three levels. The check obligates nobody and takes minutes.
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Phone Assessment
Panic frequency, avoided situations, sleep, drinking and medical history are recorded by phone. The Olympic Behavioral Health clinical director approves each admission.
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Intake and Screening
Paperwork first, then screening for depression and substance use alongside the panic. A case manager and a primary therapist are assigned by Olympic Behavioral Health that day.
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Same-day admission available, subject to criteria.
Useful on the First Call
- ✓Roughly how often the attacks happen
- ✓Whether a doctor has checked your heart
- ✓Insurance card and date of birth
Frequently Asked Questions
Panic Disorder Questions People Ask After an ER Visit
Seven questions about panic disorder treatment at Olympic Behavioral Health, covering attacks, recovery, avoidance, levels of care and insurance.
What is the difference between a panic attack and an anxiety attack?
Panic attack vs anxiety attack is a real distinction. A panic attack is a clinical term for an abrupt surge that peaks within minutes with heavy physical symptoms. An anxiety attack is not a diagnostic term and usually describes worry that builds slowly and lasts longer.
What is the heart rate of a panic attack?
No heart rate separates a panic attack from a cardiac event, which is exactly why emergency departments run tests instead of estimating. Anyone with chest pain or a racing heart needs a medical opinion first. At Olympic Behavioral Health, panic treatment starts once that examination has been done.
Can you fully recover from panic disorder?
Panic disorder responds well to treatment, and the measure is whether attacks stop dictating decisions rather than whether they never recur. Recovery tends to show up as a shrinking list of avoided places rather than as a single moment. No clinic can honestly promise a timeline.
How do you treat panic disorder?
Exposure work paired with cognitive behavioral therapy is the standard approach, with medication considered separately by a prescriber. Olympic Behavioral Health delivers both across three outpatient levels, with daily groups and a nurse practitioner on site. No medication is named before a psychiatric evaluation.
Do you treat agoraphobia as well?
Olympic Behavioral Health treats panic disorder, and the avoidance that grows out of it is reached by the same exposure work on the same three levels. Agoraphobia is a separate diagnosis and there is no separate program for it here, so anyone whose avoidance exists without panic attacks should raise that on the first call.
Does insurance cover panic disorder treatment?
Commercial plans cover it under the outpatient behavioral health benefit. TRICARE is the only in-network contract at the Lantana center, and every other payer runs on out-of-network PPO benefits. Medicaid and Medicare holders need a provider that bills those programs directly.
Where is the panic disorder treatment center in Lantana, Florida?
Panic disorder treatment runs at 3618 Lantana Road, Suite 200, Lantana, FL 33462. Exit 61 on I-95 reaches the building, downtown West Palm Beach sits 12 miles north, and every level of care runs at this one Olympic Behavioral Health site.
Client Reviews
What Clients Say About Us
Olympic Behavioral Health holds a 4.8-star Google rating across client and family reviews. Reviewers credit the therapists, the support staff and the aftercare.
- ★★★★★
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
Our Team Behind a Panic Disorder Treatment Plan
A prescriber and the primary therapists carry a panic disorder treatment plan at Olympic Behavioral Health, and the clinical director approves every admission.
APRN, FNP-C
Sabina D. Thomas reviews medication on site, which matters in panic disorder treatment because panic sends people to prescribers before it sends them to therapists.
Amber Nagy, LMHC, MCAP
Trauma Specialist
Amber holds LMHC and MCAP credentials and is certified in EMDR. She has practiced in mental health since 2018, and trauma screening runs alongside panic disorder treatment at intake.
Primary Therapist
Stephanie helps Olympic Behavioral Health clients identify panic triggers and build the coping skills an exposure sequence depends on, working across both tracks.
Clinically reviewed by Sabina D. Thomas, APRN, FNP-C. 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
Panic Attack Treatment on Lantana Road, Minutes From Exit 61
Panic attack treatment runs from one Olympic Behavioral Health site on Lantana Road, reached from Lake Worth, Boynton Beach, West Palm Beach and the rest of Palm Beach County.
The panic disorder treatment center sits 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 every level runs at this address.
- ✓Exit 61 on I-95 puts the building minutes from the ramp
- ✓Downtown West Palm Beach sits 12 miles to the north
- ✓Van service covers every scheduled group, for clients not yet driving
- ✓Lake Worth and Boynton Beach are inside a 10-minute drive
- ✓Supportive housing in Lake Worth is open to intensive outpatient clients
Emotional support animals are permitted at Olympic Behavioral Health.