People who choose the Delray Center for Healing are those looking for a new way to improve their psychological and emotional health. The Delray Center is South Florida’s most advanced outpatient mental health center, combining interventional psychiatry with evidence-based therapies and holistic healing services. Here at our Delray Beach mental health center, our goal is to treat our clients in their entirety. This means addressing physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. Our multidisciplinary treatment team consists of psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, mental health counselors, nutritionists, and fitness instructors. Each of these specialists work together with our clients in order to develop comprehensive treatment plans.
Here at our Delray Beach mental health center, we provide every individual under our care with an individualized treatment plan. Upon entering our facility, you can expect an initial consultation with a physician, counselor, or other mental health professional. During this assessment, we’ll ask you questions to gain information about your medical history, symptoms, and treatments you may have already tried. This will help us to get an idea of your treatment needs, so we can create a treatment plan that’s unique to you. And with our structured psychiatric care, we’ll tailor this plan throughout your time with us.
By offering a wide variety of services, our treatment approach is both comprehensive and multi-faceted. With a mix of both therapeutic and psychiatric approaches, patients can benefit from both our holistic and traditional healing methods. Our Delray Beach mental health center includes a full psychiatry practice, as well as a team of licensed psychotherapists. In addition, we offer a number of specialized treatment services, wellness services, and holistic treatments. The variety of offerings available at the Delray Center allow our psychiatrists to build customized treatment plans that work for both your mental health needs and your schedule.
At the Delray Center for Healing, we specialize in treating the most complex mental health conditions. These include clinical depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and eating disorders. Our center is conveniently located in downtown Delray Beach, Florida, right off of Atlantic Avenue and close to both 1-95 and US-1.
Services offered at our Delray Beach location include psychiatric evaluation & diagnosis, misdiagnosis correction, medication management, individual therapy (including DBT & EMDR), and couples & family counseling. Furthermore, our specialized mental health clinic also offers unique treatments such as transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy (TMS) and our proprietary RMOKI IV infusions for depression. We are able to work with some commercial insurances and Medicare, and offer custom treatment packages to work with your schedule.
The Delray Center For Healing offers Delray Beach 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”.
Since joining the Delray Center in 2016, Maykelyn Felipe, APRN has become an invaluable asset to the center and its client. Maykelyn is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing, as well as a Masters degree in Family Practice Nursing. Prior to joining the Delray Center, Maykelyn worked for seven years in an inpatient mental health facility, helping individuals with high-acuity mental health disorders.
In addition to her role as the Director of Nursing at the Delray Center, Maykelyn also sees clients privately at our campus in Delray Beach, providing initial assessments, follow-up care, and medication management. Maykelyn specializes in the treatment of mood disorders, attention deficit & hyperactivity disorder (ADD / ADHD) and substance abuse. Maykelyn is also a certified TMS provider.
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.