Deerfield Recovery Services
Deerfield Recovery Services (DRS), located in Daytona Beach, FL, offer a wide array of expert psychiatric services including both individual care and collaborative services.
Under the direction of board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Laurie Deerfield, DRS represents more than 25 years of work experience in multiple venues and encompasses both individual and Holistic state-of-the-art treatments.
DRS offers services in both Florida and New Jersey.
Dr. Deerfield specializes in finding innovative approaches to complex cases by utilizing the ability to see things from multiple perspectives, especially “thinking outside of the box.”
Currently, Dr. Deerfield is accepting individual clients for treatment ages 21 and up.
Deerfield Recovery Services
Deerfield Recovery Services (DRS), located in Daytona Beach, FL, offer a wide array of expert psychiatric services including both individual care and collaborative services.
Under the direction of board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Laurie Deerfield, DRS represents more than 25 years of work experience in multiple venues and encompasses both individual and Holistic state-of-the-art treatments.
DRS offers services in both Florida and New Jersey.
Dr. Deerfield specializes in finding innovative approaches to complex cases by utilizing the ability to see things from multiple perspectives, especially “thinking outside of the box.”
Currently, Dr. Deerfield is accepting individual clients for treatment ages 21 and up.
Resilience is finding balance on life’s fractured edges.
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS: These include Alcohol, Caffeine, THC, (as well as advisement about how to mitigate impact on psychosis by choosing strand types and ratios of subtypes), Opioids , Sedatives, Hypnotics, Anxiolytics, Stimulants, Tobacco
UNKOWN SUBSTANCE or UNIDENTIFIED: Synthetic substances off of the Internet, specialized testing to identify some categories, treatment for Kratom on an individual basis, adulterated opiates, Fentanyl, Gaba-derivatives
NON-SUBSTANCE RELATED DISORDERS: May of these as “addictions” shift into other domains life: gambling, pornography, “shopping”. Must rule out other co-morbid DX
Some Conditions Treated
ANXIETY SPECTRUM: This includes anything from social anxiety, generalized anxiety, phobias, to forms of panic disorders, and OCD
INSOMNIA: Holistic principles follow that working on sleep issues may improve many other conditions
IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS: Behaviors that you are unable to control, repetitive and causing significant life distress
ADD / ADHD SPECTRUM: Important to differentiate from disorders secondary to other psychiatric diagnosis
WOMEN’s ISSUES: Special consideration for neuroendocrine conditions
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD): Often associated with additional diagnosis
CONCURRENT DISORDERS: Psychiatric disorders with substance use disorders or other combinations
PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS: Whether primary such a schizophrenia, schizoaffective, or secondary to substances
MOOD DISORDERS: This includes Unipolar Depression, Adjustment Disorders, Dysthymia
BIPOLAR DISORDERS: From milder forms like Cyclothymia, Bipolar 2, or Bipolar 1 to types which have Psychotic SS and those secondary to Substances
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS: These include Alcohol, Caffeine, THC, (as well as advisement about how to mitigate impact on psychosis by choosing strand types and ratios of subtypes), Opioids , Sedatives, Hypnotics, Anxiolytics, Stimulants, Tobacco
UNKOWN SUBSTANCE or UNIDENTIFIED: Synthetic substances off of the Internet, specialized testing to identify some categories, treatment for Kratom on an individual basis, adulterated opiates, Fentanyl, Gaba-derivatives
NON-SUBSTANCE RELATED DISORDERS: May of these as “addictions” shift into other domains life: gambling, pornography, “shopping”. Must rule out other co-morbid DX
Our Objectives
Our Objectives
The goal of DRS is to attempt to establish a locus of change for the client that is congruent with their ethical principles that is “internalized” and that is enduring. Hopefully, this engenders resilience that will help stabilize them in times of stress and chaos. It is important that they can come to see their thoughts as powerful and as potential barometers as to their emotional Wellness and need for change. As the process of treatment continues which utilizes medication in tandem with various therapeutic modalities that help mirror back to the client “roadblocks” to growth some of which may be unconscious to them it is hopeful that they can start to address them gradually.
The goal would be to restore balance, optimal functioning and even self-autonomy. The principle can be applied to the gestalt of a group or even a corporation. Since I have worked with many complex medical cases and more specifically with Co- occurring cases with substance use disorders, I am well acquainted with the defense mechanisms which need to be addressed in working with clients on different levels of change. In these cases, it is important that a very strong alliance is formed and that a respectable communication style is used and that rather than dictatorial style.
This is especially true if they can see that there have been repeated consequences from the same choices. The mission of action taken toward the same roadblocks. I have found that over time clients have made some choices that were positive sometimes after going through learning through trials of relapses and self-sabotage… But because they have “owned their choices and internalized the process over time the transformation has been enduring and sometimes amazing. And this is why I love my work…!