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Depression & PTSD

You’re doing the work. Your body deserves support too.

The heaviness that makes simple tasks feel enormous. The hypervigilance that won’t let your body fully rest. The fatigue and physical tension that come along with depression and PTSD, even on the days therapy is going well. Your therapist or psychiatrist manages your diagnosis and treatment. There is a different way to support the rest of it: calm the nervous system and physical strain that come with it, alongside that care.

Why the body carries depression and PTSD too

What’s Happening

More than a mood

Fatigue, disrupted sleep, muscle tension, and a nervous system that’s either shut down or stuck on high alert, physical experiences that come alongside depression and PTSD, whether or not anyone asks about them at a therapy appointment.

How It Feels

Doing the work, and still exhausted

The credit nobody gives you for how much effort it takes just to function some days. The frustration of doing everything “right” in therapy and still feeling physically depleted. The isolation of carrying it largely alone.

Why It Matters

Talk therapy and medication treat the mind. Your body is part of this too.

Therapy and medication are the foundation of treating depression and PTSD, and they ask a lot of a body that’s already running on empty. You deserve support for the body doing that work too.

What’s often missing

Standard care for depression and PTSD is therapy, medication, or both, the right foundation. What’s often missing is direct support for the physical fatigue, tension, and nervous-system activation that accompany them, addressed alongside that care.

Supporting the body alongside your therapy

Patients arrive here already working with a therapist or psychiatrist, looking for additional support for the physical toll depression or PTSD take. This clinic’s approach focuses on calming the nervous system and supporting physical recovery, never as a substitute for mental health treatment.

The clinical logic: The acupuncture calms nervous-system dysregulation associated with depression and PTSD. ATP Resonance BioTherapy® supports the body’s recovery from chronic physical tension. O3 ReBoot Therapy® supports general circulation and energy.

How we work with your care team

Your therapist and psychiatrist manage diagnosis, therapy, and any medication; nothing there changes except through them. What we support is the body’s share of it: the exhaustion, the tension you stopped noticing, the sleep that doesn’t restore. Therapists and psychiatrists across Broward County send us patients for exactly that, and many patients simply send themselves.

Susan Mitchell, AP, Acupuncture Physician

Susan Mitchell, AP

Clinical Director · 30+ years

You’re Not a Case Number

Your protocol, personalized

There’s no fixed number of visits and no generic timeline. Your treatment frequency, therapy mix, and program length are set at your evaluation and adjusted at every visit based on how you’re actually responding.

What shapes your plan

Your specific symptoms

What you’re experiencing and how long it’s been going on sets your starting approach.

Your response

Visit frequency steps up or down based on your measured progress at each visit, not a preset week count.

Your care team

Your plan is built and adjusted in coordination with your therapist, psychiatrist, or physician, never around them.

Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your case; cost is discussed in person after that.

The Plan

Three steps, starting with the consultation

  1. 1

    $45 initial consultation

    Tell us what you’re experiencing and who else is on your care team. We evaluate your case, including whether you’re not a candidate.

  2. 2

    Personalized support plan

    Built around the physical symptoms affecting you most, fatigue, tension, or sleep.

  3. 3

    More capacity for the work you’re already doing

    A body that isn’t fighting you while you do the work of healing.

Illustration of a person standing with physical tension released from the shoulders
What Support Feels Like

Let your body put something down

Shoulders that aren’t braced by default.

Sleep that isn’t one more thing to manage.

The same work, with less weight to carry through it.

The physical toll deserves attention too

Unaddressed physical fatigue and tension can make the work of therapy itself harder to sustain. Direct support for the body, alongside your mental health care, is worth pursuing in its own right.

Questions, Answered

Depression & PTSD FAQs

No, the therapies work alongside your existing care, never as a replacement for it. Any medication decisions remain your prescriber’s call.
No, diagnosis and treatment of depression and PTSD remain your therapist’s or psychiatrist’s role. We support the physical fatigue, tension, and nervous-system strain that come alongside them.
No, if you’re having thoughts of harming yourself, please contact your therapist, psychiatrist, or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) immediately, or go to your nearest emergency room. This clinic supports ongoing wellness, not emergency mental health care.
No. Nothing here is a drug, so there’s no interaction to manage. Your prescriber stays in full control of the medication itself.
Yes, and many patients arrive that way. No referral is required, though; you can call directly.
Book Your Consultation

You’ve been carrying a lot. Let’s support the body carrying it.

Your initial consultation is $45. Tell us your story, and we’ll evaluate your case.

Call us

954-772-1919

Speak to a real person about your case today.

Visit us

3471 North Federal Highway, Suite 500
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306

Therapists, psychiatrists & physicians

Physicians across Broward County refer patients here; a phone call is all it takes.

New Patient Offer $45 Initial Consultation

Book your first visit

We’ll confirm by call or text, usually the same day.

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No referral required · We coordinate with your therapist, psychiatrist, or physician.

New Patient Offer $45 Initial Consultation

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We’ll confirm by call or text, usually the same day.

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