The Delray Center for Healing is South Florida’s premier outpatient mental health center, serving South Palm Beach County with locations in both Delray Beach and Boca Raton, Florida. Our Boca Raton office includes some of South Florida’s top psychiatrists, who provide expert diagnosis, counseling, and medication management. Our CEO and founder, Dr. Raul J. Rodriguez, MD, is a double-board certified psychiatrist with over twenty years of experience treating difficult and complex mental health disorders. Conditions we specialize in include treatment-resistant depression, anxiety & panic attacks, OCD, PTSD, mood & personality disorders, and eating disorders.
Here at Delray Center for Healing in Boca Raton, we provide individualized treatment for every individual seeking mental health care. This means that we structure mental health care around each person’s individual needs. Not every experience is the same and not every treatment helps every individual. That’s why it’s important to understand a person’s needs before designing treatment. And, to address these needs throughout treatment, adjusting treatment approaches to incorporate healing. We believe that giving people individualized treatment that addresses specific needs provides individuals a better chance of treatment success and overall well being.
We offer a range of services and programs to accommodate all individual needs and treatment objectives. This way, each person can utilize the services that give them the best chances of obtaining lasting recovery and healing. During your initial assessment and throughout the treatment planning process, we’ll help to determine which programs and services may best help you meet your individual needs. And, adjust treatment according to your progress so that you may experience every treatment available that may be beneficial to your success.
Offering a diversity of services allows for a comprehensive approach to treatment. Thus, providing help from multiple angles, using both psychological and medical approaches simultaneously. And, giving people in our care the chance to experience a diverse range of options for the treatment they wouldn’t have the chance to experience otherwise. Learn more about the programs and services available at our Boca Raton location today.
As a local, physician-owned, and operated practice, The Delray Center in Boca Raton offers personalized treatment provided by a compassionate and caring staff. Similarly, it is our belief that no case of mental illness is hopeless. Due to this philosophy as well as our integrative medical model, we have seen success with patients who have tried and failed to get better many times over. Every new patient receives a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation from one of our mental health professionals. This way, we can get to know you and make the appropriate clinical recommendations to save you time and money.
4800 N. Federal Highway
Suite E304
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Phone: 561-250-7208
Email: admin@delraycenter.com
The Delray Center For Healing offers Boca Raton as one of the most comprehensive outpatient depression treatment programs in the country.
It was the first August of the new millennium. Dr. Raul Rodriguez, at the time still the Chief Resident in Psychiatry at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital, had just started his private practice in Boca Raton. He quickly noticed an alarming trend. Almost all of the new patients that were coming in had a severe addiction to opioids. Combining a number of the techniques he had learned in Jackson Memorial with advanced practices that were being used in Yale, Dr. Rodriguez developed a new type of treatment that was able to detoxify these patients on an outpatient basis without hardly missing any work. Even though these new detoxification protocols were very effective, it became apparent that more severe underlying clinical conditions were prominent in this population, especially Eating Disorders, PTSD, Anxiety Disorders, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment-Resistant Major Depression.
Dr. Rodriguez made the decision to expand his clinical staff and therapeutic focus, in order to be able to effectively treat these underlying conditions. Dr. Rodriguez and his senior clinical staff pursued advanced training in the treatment of eating disorders as well in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Dr. Rodriguez later pursued training in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to expand the options available to treat patients. Dr. Rodriguez then developed full-scale outpatient programs for the specialized treatment of Treatment-Resistant Depression, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, Eating Disorders, and Personality Disorders. He expanded the Delray Center campus from a single building into a five building clinical campus. From this point on, Dr. Rodriguez has not deviated from a path of constant improvement and evolution that has turned the Delray Center into the cutting edge integrative mental health & wellness center that it is today.
The integrative wellness approach to treating severe clinical conditions was a dream in medical school that became a reality for Dr. Rodriguez. After moving his main office from Boca Raton to Delray Beach, Dr. Rodriguez assembled a team of highly skilled professionals to harmoniously deliver clinical modalities such as individual psychotherapy, group therapy, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and advanced psychopharmacology, along with holistic elements such as acupuncture, vitamin therapy, massage, yoga, meditation, fitness, nutrition, and expressive therapies. Patients found this combination to be stimulating, enjoyable and effective. Dr. Rodriguez’s passion for wellness stems from his favorite pastime, road and mountain bike racing, and his “moonlighting” gig as the owner of the SpeedLab/ Hammer Nutrition/ Trek Racing Team.
The culture of healing and wellness of the Delray Center for Healing has long since extended beyond the center walls and into the community. Dr Rodriguez and his clinical team have engaged in a number of community initiatives to raise awareness and facilitate access to treatment for a number of public health dilemmas. The Delray Center believes in giving back to the community and in creating a safer world for our youth. As a regular writer for the Boca Raton Observer and Simply The Best Magazine, Dr. Rodriguez uses these platforms to continue to raise awareness in the community. Having started his clinical practice in the year 2000, Dr. Rodriguez is shooting for a 50-year career with the hopes that one or both of his sons will follow in his footsteps and keep his vision for the Delray Center for Healing alive into the next century.
Dr. Clark Hawkins, DO is a key member of the Delray Center’s medical staff, and provides outpatient psychiatric services to our clients, including psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis, and medication management. During his time at the Delray Center, Dr. Hawkins has quickly become one of the most popular psychiatrists in Delray Beach and Boca Raton, due to his skill as a diagnostician, his keen understanding of psychopharmacology, as well as his excellent bed-side manner.
Dr. Hawkins graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelors of Science in both Biology and Psychology. He earned his Doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is a member of American Osteopathic Association. Dr. Hawkins has worked in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, and specializes in the treatment of mood disorders, substance use disorders, and mental health conditions related to seniors and older adults.
Dr. Medlin has been in psychiatry for 30 years. He graduated from medical school at the University of Oklahoma and completed his Psychiatric Residency at Central State Hospital in Norman, Oklahoma. He and his family moved to the Jacksonville area in 2017. “We always vacationed at Disney, might as well live close”.
Clinical areas of interest have always been diverse, to meet the demands of the community- including both inpatient and outpatient, all ages from children to seniors, and people with co-existing medical problems including cancer, pain, and substance use.
Though psychiatry has changed in the last 30 years, it still must be applied from person to person. “It is a great opportunity to be involved with the diverse and talented people here at The Delray Center”.
Dr. Rodriguez founded the Delray Center in 2003 and built it on a foundation of core clinical, professional, and ethical principles that are adhered to still to this day. Dr. Rodriguez founded the Delray Center in 2003 and built it on a foundation of core clinical, professional, and ethical principles that are adhered to still to this day.