Online psychiatry for Fort Lauderdale and Broward County.

Fort Lauderdale sits at the centre of Broward County, and getting to an in-person psychiatric appointment here often means budgeting for traffic on I-95 or Federal Highway before you have said a word to anyone. For a follow-up visit that takes twenty minutes, the journey can take longer than the appointment.

Horizon Telepsychiatry works entirely by secure video. You join from home, from a parked car, or from a private room at work. The clinical conversation is the same one you would have in an office, without the drive, the waiting room, or the time taken out of a working day.

Appointments are available to anyone physically located in Florida at the time of the visit, which includes patients across Fort Lauderdale, Wilton Manors, Oakland Park, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Plantation, Davie and Sunrise.

The most common reason patients in Broward County get in touch is that they already know roughly what they are dealing with — anxiety that has stopped responding to the things that used to work, attention difficulties that have followed them since school, sleep that has been broken for months — and they want a clinician who will take the history properly rather than issue a prescription in ten minutes.

A first appointment is a full 60 minutes. That is long enough to go through symptoms, medical history, previous treatments and what you actually want to be different. Follow-up appointments are shorter, and how often they happen depends on what is being treated and whether medication has recently changed.

Care covers psychiatric evaluations, medication management and psychotherapy. If what you need is a level of care this practice does not provide — inpatient treatment, intensive outpatient programmes, or substance use treatment — you will be told that directly and pointed toward the right kind of service.

Horizon accepts Oscar, Cigna and Aetna, which between them cover a large share of the marketplace and employer plans common in Broward. Coverage depends on your specific plan rather than just the insurer, so it is worth checking your behavioural health benefits before the first visit.

Self-pay is straightforward and published: $200 for the 60-minute initial evaluation and $100 for each follow-up. There is no referral requirement — you can book directly. Full details are on the rates and insurance page.

For patients on high-deductible plans, self-pay is sometimes the cheaper option outright, and it keeps the visit from being routed through an insurer at all.

Booking is online through Horizon's scheduling partner, or by phone or text on 954-531-5108. You do not need a referral, a diagnosis, or paperwork from another provider.

Before the first appointment it helps to have a list of any medications you currently take, including doses, and a rough sense of what you have tried before and how it went. If you have been seen by a psychiatric provider previously, knowing roughly when and what was prescribed is useful, but nothing is required.

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