Search for a therapist in Dania Beach and a single booking site lists 315. On 19 October 2026, none of its first 40 had an office in the city. We don’t have one either. We have an office about 10 miles north in Fort Lauderdale, secure video anywhere in Florida, and the county wait-time numbers the directories leave out.
Quick answer: Dania Beach residents get into individual therapy through 4 routes: publicly funded community care, a federally qualified health center, a Medicaid plan’s network (Broward is Medicaid Region H), or a private practice. FC PsychExperts is a private practice. Sessions run 50 minutes, by secure video anywhere in Florida or in person at 1451 W. Cypress Creek Road in Fort Lauderdale, about 10 miles north. First appointments are usually available within the same week. Publicly funded adult outpatient care in Broward averaged a 27.5-day wait in the county’s 2025 needs assessment. Call (561) 870-0411.
Most listings that come up for Dania Beach are online only or based in another city. That’s fine if you want video. It’s a problem if you need a room close to home and assume the list gives you one.
| Where we looked | What it showed |
|---|---|
| The largest therapist directory, Dania page | 14 listings. 13 were labeled online only, and the directory’s own summary put the share at 93%. None showed a street address in Dania or Dania Beach. |
| A large booking marketplace, Dania Beach page | A headline count of 315 therapists and counselors. Of the first 40 listings, none had an office in Dania Beach: 11 were in Fort Lauderdale, 8 in Miramar, 5 in Hollywood, and the rest were spread across 8 other cities. 16 of the 40 were labeled virtual. |
| A counseling directory, Dania Beach page | 13 listings on the first page. None had a Dania Beach street address. |
Online only isn’t a red flag. Florida holds a telehealth visit to the same standard of care as an in-person one (Fla. Stat. 456.47(2)(a)). The question is whether you want the option of a room.
Adults waiting for publicly funded outpatient mental health care in Broward waited an average of 27.5 days, according to the county’s 2025 needs assessment.
The assessment comes from the Broward Behavioral Health Coalition, the managing entity that funds safety-net behavioral health care in the county under contract with the Florida Department of Children and Families.
27.5 days
Average wait for an adult outpatient appointment
18.5 days
Median wait. Half of waitlisted adults waited this long or less
131 days
Longest adult outpatient wait in the report
108
Adults on the outpatient waitlist when it was counted
The average sits above the median because the longest waits ran past 4 months. For children, 70 were on the outpatient waitlist, with an average wait of 20.6 days. The report tied the increase to a cut in a federal supplemental block grant, rising demand and staff turnover. In its consumer survey, most people received services within 10 days, and about 1 in 5 waited more than 2 weeks.
| Route | Who it serves | What sets the wait |
|---|---|---|
| Publicly funded community care | Uninsured and underinsured residents | The waitlist. 27.5 days on average for adults in 2025 |
| Federally qualified health center | Anyone, with a sliding fee based on income and family size | Appointment supply at each site |
| Your Medicaid plan’s network | Medicaid members in Broward | Network size. Ask member services for a referral, not a list |
| A private practice, including this one | Anyone. Each practice confirms its own fees and which insurance it takes | The practice’s own calendar. Here, first appointments are usually available within the same week |
Your payer decides which route you can use. In Dania Beach, 20.1% of residents under 65 have no health insurance, per the Census Bureau, so routes 1 and 2 are the starting point for about 1 in 5 of them.
Run by community providers that the Broward Behavioral Health Coalition funds with state and federal money, for residents who are uninsured or underinsured.
Start by dialing 2-1-1. What gates it: the waitlist.
Run by community health centers across Broward. Paid on a sliding fee scale based on income and family size, which the federal program requires. Bring income documents.
What gates it: appointment supply.
Broward is Florida Medicaid Region H. Under the contract that began 1 February 2025, its plans are Community Care Plan, Florida Community Care, Humana, Simply Healthcare and Sunshine Health.
Ask member services for a behavioral health referral. What gates it: network size.
Fees and insurance options are confirmed on the call, and if your plan is out of network, the office can provide a superbill. In person in Fort Lauderdale or by secure video.
What gates it: the practice’s calendar. Here, first appointments are usually available within the same week.
This is usThe trap is assuming that a practice saying it accepts insurance accepts yours. Ask by plan name, and ask about Medicaid by name. Plan rosters change between contract cycles, so call the member services number on the back of your card to confirm your coverage.
Federal data also lists Hollywood and Dania Beach together as a primary care shortage area for low-income residents: a score of 15 on HRSA’s shortage scale, where a higher score means greater need, and 13.36 full-time clinicians short at the 2022 update.
An outpatient appointment is the wrong tool for the next hour. These answer now:
In Dania Beach, 43.7% of residents age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, and 34.5% are Hispanic, per the Census Bureau.
Broward’s 2025 needs assessment found the access gap widest for Hispanic and Haitian Creole-speaking residents. Hispanic residents made up 10.1% of the managing entity’s clients, against 32.5% of the county’s population. Nearly 40% of its survey respondents said they had dropped out of services because they felt disrespected or misunderstood by providers.
Will the licensed clinician speak my language, or will an interpreter join the session?
Both can work. They’re different appointments, and a website language toggle doesn’t answer the question. 2-1-1 answers in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole, so you can ask about language there before you book anything.
Ask us the same question on the 15-minute call.
Dania Beach sits on the Atlantic, and hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30 every year. Storm stress has a predictable shape.
The VA’s National Center for PTSD says that for most people, reactions after a disaster lessen over the first few weeks. They can run longer and harder for people who lost someone, were hurt or had to relocate. The director of the University of South Florida’s Psychological Services Center told WUSF in December 2024 that symptoms lasting beyond about a month are the marker to watch.
Cognitive behavioral therapy works on the pre-storm loop: the hourly forecast checks, the sleep you lose in August. EMDR is used when a storm left trauma behind. Both are offered here.
Call or text the federal Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-985-5990, 24 hours a day, in English or Spanish, with ASL by videophone. If it’s a crisis, call or text 988.
The nearest FC PsychExperts office is at 1451 W. Cypress Creek Road, Suite 300, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309, about 10 miles north of Dania Beach in a straight line. Sessions also run by secure video anywhere in Florida.
Either way it’s the same clinician, the same 50 minutes and the same confidentiality.
For the service itself, including what a first session covers, see individual therapy across Palm Beach County.
4 situations where something else should come first.
Call or text 988, dial 2-1-1 or call 911. Don’t wait for a callback from any practice, this one included.
Start with route 1 or 2 above. Dial 2-1-1 first, or text your zip code to 898211.
That’s a testing question before it’s a therapy question. Testing for ADHD, learning or memory concerns happens in the same practice, through FC PsychExperts’ neuropsychological evaluation service.
Dr. Colet is court-qualified as an expert witness in Florida’s 17th Judicial Circuit, which is Broward County, and the practice offers forensic psychology services in Broward County. Starting therapy at a practice that also does court evaluations in your county can create a conflict, so mention any open case when you call.
Therapy in Florida is privileged. Then, in 2 places, it isn’t.
A parent who argues that depression explains their conduct has relied on the condition. So has a plaintiff claiming emotional injury.
Dr. Colet’s post on when therapy sessions can be used in court covers the other routes, including a client’s own waiver and competency hearings.
Will you write an opinion for my court case?
Forensic psychology’s specialty guidelines (4.02.01) warn against serving as both treating clinician and evaluator for the same person. A custody recommendation, or a letter with a conclusion in it, belongs to a separate evaluation by a separate clinician.
Here, your therapist explains the confidentiality exceptions in your first session.
Jessica leads individual therapy at FC PsychExperts. Her approach is relational, integrative and strengths-based, grounded in evidence-based clinical practice, with room for mindfulness.
Works with individuals, couples and families
Founded FC PsychExperts in 2008. Florida courts call on her for expert evaluation and testimony, and she is court-qualified in the 1st, 15th, 17th, 19th and 20th Judicial Circuits. The same rigor carries into treatment planning, assessment and supervision across the team.
Member of the American Psychological Association and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Check any Florida clinician’s license, ours included, on the Florida Department of Health’s license lookup. You’re looking for 3 things: the license exists, its status is clear and current, and no discipline is attached.
In person from the Fort Lauderdale office and by secure video anywhere in Florida. Areas near Dania Beach we serve:
The practice runs all 5 therapy services: individual, couples, family, co-parenting and court-ordered. If you’re in Palm Beach County, see individual therapy in West Palm Beach.
Not in the directory results we checked. On 19 October 2026, none of the first 40 listings on a major booking site had a Dania Beach office, and 13 of 14 listings on the largest directory’s Dania page were online only. Check each listing for a street address, or choose video. FC PsychExperts sees Dania Beach clients by secure video and at its Fort Lauderdale office, about 10 miles north.
For publicly funded adult outpatient care, Broward’s 2025 needs assessment reported an average wait of 27.5 days, a median of 18.5 days and a longest wait of 131 days, with 108 adults on the waitlist. Private practices set their own calendars, so ask each one. Here, first appointments are usually available within the same week.
Fees and insurance options are confirmed on the 15-minute call. If your plan is out of network, the office can provide a superbill so you can request reimbursement. Ask your insurer first whether you have an out-of-network benefit for outpatient mental health, how much of the deductible you’ve met, and what share of the allowed amount it pays for an individual psychotherapy session.
Broward is Florida Medicaid Region H. Under the contract that began 1 February 2025, its plans are Community Care Plan, Florida Community Care, Humana, Simply Healthcare and Sunshine Health. Call the member services number on your card and ask for a behavioral health referral, not a provider list. Confirm your coverage by calling the member services number on your card.
Dial 2-1-1 from a Broward phone or text your zip code to 898211, 24 hours a day. It can connect you to publicly funded community care and to federally qualified health centers, which must serve patients regardless of ability to pay and use a sliding fee based on income and family size. In Dania Beach, 20.1% of residents under 65 are uninsured.
Start with 2-1-1. It answers in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole, 24 hours a day, and can connect you to publicly funded care in Broward. Then ask each practice, ours included, whether the licensed clinician speaks your language or an interpreter joins the session. Get that answer before you book.
Yes. Reactions after a storm usually ease over the first few weeks, per the VA’s National Center for PTSD. If they last beyond about a month or get in the way of daily life, that’s the point to book. Cognitive behavioral therapy works on the anticipatory loop, and EMDR is used when a storm left trauma behind. For immediate support, call or text the Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-985-5990.
Florida holds telehealth to the same standard of care as an in-person visit (Fla. Stat. 456.47(2)(a)). Here it’s the same clinician and the same 50-minute session. Choose the Fort Lauderdale office if you want a hard line between therapy and home.
Usually, with 2 exceptions under Fla. Stat. 90.503: a court-ordered examination, and any proceeding where you rely on your mental or emotional condition as part of a claim or defense. Dr. Colet is court-qualified as an expert witness in the 17th Judicial Circuit, which is Broward County, so mention any open case when you call. Your therapist explains the confidentiality exceptions in your first session.
8 to 20 sessions is a common range here, weekly at first and then spaced out, and change often shows within the first 6 to 12. Deeper or trauma-related work tends to take longer. These are typical ranges, not promises. You and your therapist review progress together and set the pace.
A short call with the office. You’ll hear which service fits, who would lead it, what it costs and when the first session can be, usually within the same week.