Sobriety Built from the Inside Out
Addressing the root, not just the drink
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In Person In Boca Raton & Virtual Across The US
Alcohol Treatment In Boca Raton Florida
ALCOHOL ABUSE & ALCOHOLISM TREATMENT
Is alcohol quietly damaging your health, relationships, career, and quality of life? You are not weak, and you are not alone. The Renew Center of Florida offers compassionate, evidence-based alcohol treatment in Boca Raton that addresses both the compulsive drinking and its deep emotional roots, available in-person in Boca Raton and virtually across the United States.
- OUR APPROACH
Why Alcoholism Takes More Than Willpower and More Than Detox
Detox removes alcohol from your body. It does not remove the emotional pain, cognitive habits, relationship damage, or neurological conditioning that kept the drinking going. Without addressing those root causes, relapse isn't a matter of willpower. It's the predictable outcome of an untreated condition. Our program goes beyond detox to treat the full picture of alcohol use disorder.
Personalized treatment built around your specific drinking patterns, triggers, and history.
Medical coordination for safe withdrawal management when clinically indicated.
Evidence-based therapy, including CBT and DBT, proven most effective for alcohol use disorder.
Treatment for co-occurring depression, anxiety, and trauma driving alcohol use.
Individual, group, and family therapy sessions, online and in-person.
Long-term relapse prevention for lasting sobriety and a rebuilt life.
PRESENTATIONS WE TREAT
Alcohol Use Disorder Presentations We Treat
Alcohol use disorder exists on a spectrum, from harmful use to severe dependence, and we treat every point on it, along with the mental-health conditions that so often travel with it. According to NIAAA, Nearly 28 million Americans ages 12 and older met the criteria for AUD in the past year, yet only about 7.6% received any treatment. If you've been carrying this alone, that gap is exactly why.
Alcoholism / Alcohol Dependence
The most severe form of alcohol use disorder: compulsive drinking despite serious physical, relational, financial, and occupational consequences, with withdrawal symptoms when not drinking and rising tolerance over time. This is a medical condition that deserves comprehensive clinical care, not shame.
Binge Drinking & Problem Drinking
Episodic heavy drinking, defined by the NIAAA as roughly four or more drinks for women or five or more for men within about two hours. Around 57.9 million Americans reported binge drinking in the past month. Even without daily use, it carries serious risk and often escalates into alcohol use disorder.
Alcohol Withdrawal & Medical Considerations
Alcohol withdrawal can be medically serious, including the risk of seizures and delirium tremens in severe dependence. The Renew Center works with physicians to manage withdrawal safely, before and during outpatient psychological treatment, whenever it's clinically indicated.
Alcohol Abuse (Harmful Use)
A pattern of drinking that keeps causing real problems, including legal trouble, dangerous situations, and missed obligations, even without full dependence. Early intervention at this stage can stop it from progressing to severe alcoholism.
High-Functioning Alcoholism
Keeping up professional performance and social life while drinking heavily can create the false impression that everything is under control. High-functioning drinkers often struggle to recognize the seriousness of their alcohol use because daily responsibilities still get done.
Co-Occurring Depression, Anxiety & Trauma
AUD has extremely high rates of co-occurring depression, anxiety, PTSD, and trauma, and in many cases the drinking began as self-medication. About 21.1 million U.S. adults had a co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder in the past year (SAMHSA, 2024). Our model treats all of it together for long-term outcomes.
OUR THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES
Evidence-Based Therapies for Alcohol Use Disorder
Our strength-based approach uses proven therapies for alcoholism and alcohol use disorder. We focus on unhealthy thoughts, emotional pain, related mental health concerns, and brain reward patterns that fuel compulsive drinking, while helping you recover within your everyday environment.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT is the most evidence-supported psychological treatment for alcohol use disorder. It identifies and rewrites the automatic thoughts and behavioral patterns behind drinking, including drinking to cope with stress, anxiety, pain, or boredom, and builds coping strategies that last.
Interpersonal Therapy
Alcohol use disorder devastates relationships through deception, distance, volatility, and broken trust. IPT addresses both the relational damage caused by drinking and the patterns, including conflict, isolation, and grief, that have driven it, building genuine connection as an alternative.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
The emotional dysregulation and distress intolerance at the core of AUD respond powerfully to DBT's skill framework. You learn to manage the urge to drink without acting on it, tolerate difficult emotions without alcohol, and build a life worth living in recovery.
Rapid Reduction Hypnosis
Dr. Palmer's signature method addresses the subconscious associations between alcohol and relief, social ease, numbing, or reward, gently reprogramming the conditioned triggers that make alcohol feel necessary for functioning or comfort.
Integrative Holistic Methods
Recovery from alcoholism means rebuilding every dimension of life: health, relationships, career, identity, and purpose. The program integrates systemic, solution-oriented, and holistic methods, including mindfulness, somatic practices, and Eastern wellness approaches, to support whole-person healing.
​Functional Medicine & Nutrition
Chronic alcohol use causes real nutritional deficiencies, liver stress, and neurological effects. The center coordinates with physicians for medical evaluation, nutritional support (including thiamine), and ongoing health monitoring alongside psychological treatment.
Same evidence-based treatment as in-person care.
Virtual & Telehealth Available
Online Alcohol Use Disorder Therapy Across Florida & the U.S.
Virtual therapy for alcoholism and alcohol abuse gives you a private, stigma-free way to access evidence-based treatment from home, right in the environment where recovery actually has to hold. It addresses the emotional triggers, cognitive patterns, and co-occurring conditions driving alcohol use. Led by Dr. Lisa Palmer, LMFT, CHT, CRRTT, PhD.
HIPAA-compliant, fully private and confidential.
Flexible scheduling that fits your lifestyle.
BOCA RATON . FLORIDA
Alcohol Addiction Treatment in Boca Raton, Florida
For those in South Florida, The Renew Center provides a compassionate in-person setting for treating alcohol use disorder, addressing the compulsive drinking, emotional drivers, and real-world consequences of alcoholism with expert clinical guidance and medical coordination.
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Alcoholism creates powerful, self-reinforcing cycles: emotional pain → alcohol use → temporary relief → consequences → shame → more drinking. Our program is designed to break these cycles from the emotional root up, while supporting the rebuilding of health, relationships, and purpose.
The Renew Center of Florida
In-Person In Boca Raton & Virtual Across The US
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Begin with a Complimentary 15-Minute Discovery Call.
No intake form to fill out first, no script. Your first call is fifteen minutes with Dr. Lisa Palmer herself. You talk about what's been going on with your drinking, and she listens. She asks enough to understand the shape of it, tells you whether stopping safely would need medical support, and gives you a straight read on what might actually help.
START TODAY
For most people who reach this page, the drinking is tangled up with something else: anxiety, depression, old trauma, often more than one at once. Dr. Palmer has spent 20 years working exactly there. So the call looks at the whole picture, not just the alcohol, and you leave it knowing your real options, whether that's with The Renew Center or somewhere better suited to you.
Dr. Lisa Palmer
LMFT, CHT, CRRTT, PhD · America's Leading Celebrity Psychotherapist · 20+ Years of Experience
Featured on CBS · NBC · FOX · CNN · Ranked #1 in U.S.
YOUR RECOVERY JOURNEY
The Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Process
Recovery from alcoholism is a structured, compassionate process, paced to your real life. Here is what to expect from your first call through to lasting sobriety and a rebuilt life.
Free 15-min Discovery Call with Dr. Palmer
Begin with a free 15-minute call directly with Dr. Lisa Palmer. She listens to your experience with alcohol without judgment, assesses your situation, and gives initial guidance on the most effective personalized approach, including whether medical supervision for withdrawal is indicated.
Comprehensive Alcohol Use Assessment
An assessment explores your drinking history, patterns, and quantity; withdrawal experiences; medical history; co-occurring conditions; relationship and occupational impact; and treatment attempts. Where helpful, screening tools such as the AUDIT or CAGE may be used. This forms the foundation of your recovery plan.
Individualized Recovery Plan
Together you define clear, achievable goals, whether that's cessation, harm reduction, or addressing the co-occurring depression or trauma driving use. Your plan is specific to your history, medical situation, and personal recovery priorities.
Weekly Therapy & Coaching Sessions
Regular sessions, online or in-person, review progress, work through cravings and triggers as they emerge, and build the emotional and cognitive tools for lasting sobriety. Individual, group, and family sessions are available based on your needs.
Mid-Program Review & Adjustments
At the program midpoint, we assess progress and refine the approach. Alcohol recovery often involves evolving relational, occupational, and emotional challenges, so mid-program adjustments keep the therapeutic focus aligned with your real-world experience.
Long-Term Recovery & Maintenance Plan
As the program concludes, focus shifts to sustaining sobriety and rebuilding life. You leave with a personalized long-term maintenance plan, including relapse-prevention strategies, emotional coping tools, and ongoing support resources.
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AREAS WE SERVE
Areas We Serve for Alcohol Treatment
The Renew Center of Florida provides compassionate, in-person alcohol treatment in Boca Raton, FL. We welcome clients from Boca Del Mar, East Boca Raton, West Boca Raton, Downtown Boca, and Mizner Park, along with nearby areas such as Deerfield Beach, Delray Beach, Pompano Beach, and South Boynton Beach. Virtual alcohol use disorder therapy is also available throughout Florida and across the United States.