Our Services
Primary Care / Family Medicine
- Preventive care and vaccinations
- Common ailments and pains
- Sports physicals and injuries
- Chronic diseases, high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes
- Women’s health
- Medical weight loss
- Insomnia
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Core Value: Involvement
You know yourself better than we do. Caya Health is here to help you plan your path to healing, provide you with the tools you need to reach your goals, and encourage your success.
Whole-person Healthcare
We have assembled a growing range of services and helpful tools and therapies to help you succeed in your health goals. This can include family medicine, psychiatry, and counseling. We have workshops and support groups that you can join as well as products such as nutritional supplements and other resources.
As an “integrated” health center, we understand the strong connection between the body, the mind, and the environment in which you live. As such, integrated health is often called “whole-person healthcare.”
Family Medicine / Primary Care
Caya Health is a great place for you and your family to receive Primary Care. Our medical providers understand that your overall physical health is impacted by the environment where you live, your social history, and the stresses you have in your daily life.
We are passionate about helping you achieve your health goals in a holistic and integrated manner through our coordinated whole-person healthcare. Our team is made up of physicians, advanced nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, and therapists working together to make you feel better.
What this means is that you get care at a reasonable cost. Our patient-centered care* often reduces the need to visit several clinics, resulting in a higher quality of care, better patient experience, and a lower overall cost.
Core Value: Value
Caya Health strives to make your investment in yourself well worth it by delivering on our commitment to you.
Counseling / Therapy / Psychiatry
There are times when we need help from others to better understand ourselves and how to move towards healing. Our trained and experienced staff of compassionate professionals are here for you.
We offer individual and group sessions, whichever is the right fit for you.
Typically, you will speak to a Caya team member who helps you determine the best place to start. As an integrated health center, we are unique in that we provide a patient-centered care model at each location. That means more care with less stress. Our medical professionals can coordinate your care within our team without the extra hassle of sending your medical records between our primary care providers and our behavioral health specialists.
Workshops & Support Groups
We should not be alone in our struggles. Often, achieving goals is easier when others with similar experiences learn from and encourage one another. Our Caya Health professionals are experts in leading small group sessions covering common subjects like depression and anxiety, smoking cessation, diabetes control, weight loss, and more. We use tested and proven national and regional programs with advice and recommendations from organizations like Tobacco Free Florida, NAMI, SAMSHA, and others. With the help at our integrated health care center, you can rest assured that we are taking your body, mind, and spirit into account to help you achieve your whole person goals.
Medical Weight Loss & Control
Individually tailored and supervised by a licensed medical professional, our 12- week program boasts an average weight loss of 30 pounds in females and 40 pounds in males just in the initial phase. The program can be continued past 12 weeks for those wanting to lose more weight. You don’t to be part of a group to get these results, however, a guided group can provide encouragement and support, but most importantly, help you understand and break some of the emotional barriers impacting your weight. With the help of our Primary Care / Family Medicine experts, we get a complete picture of how to support your weight loss and whole person health goals.
Depression & Anxiety Healing Groups
Caya Health is uniquely blessed to offer trained, licensed, and experienced mental health counselors, psychiatrists, family and internal medicine doctors, and nurse practitioners who all have a deep understanding and appreciation of the connection between your emotions, body, and spirit. These practitioners work together on your behalf to develop, plan and support healing in your journey towards wholeness. Depending on your circumstance, a healing group may be recommended to support your healing and your whole person health goals.
Smoking Cessation
Caya Health offers the Tobacco Free Florida program to help you in your journey to living a smoke-free life. This program includes “Quit Your Way” lessons and support. We will help you set goals, and together we will help you reach them. You will receive tips and resources to get started, such as:
- Support, texts, emails, phone calls, videos, or in-person groups when appropriate
- Nicotine patches, gum, lozenges, or spray
- Prescribed medication, such as Bupropion or Varenicline, to help cut nicotine cravings.
Should Caya Health become your Primary Care / Family Medicine provider, we will have greater insight into how we can support and encourage your smoking cessation as part of your whole person health goals.
Diabetes Control Group
Creating new habits can be daunting. This guided group is designed for both newly diagnosed and existing diabetics. Together, they support each other while learning and practicing the best ways to achieve whole person goals specific to diabetes.
Caya Family
Welcome to the Caya Family. In today’s world, we all could use a good family to belong to. As part of a local Caya Family, you will be informed on timely health subjects, group meetings, and Caya Family visits. At Caya Family gatherings, you will get to know your Caya medical providers and healthcare team more personally via video conferencing and in person when appropriate.
Core Values: Compassion & Empathy and Esthetics
The Golden Rule teaches us to treat others as we would like to be treated. We all have struggles in life; therefore, we have created Caya Health as a safe and welcoming environment. We also strive to create a calming and esthetically pleasing experience for you.
Look for newsletters and invitations to events near you as well as products and resources that will help you achieve your health goals. We hope that you too will call Caya Health your family.
- Is a medical doctor with a four-year degree from an accredited medical school.
- Has completed an internship and residency in psychiatry from an accredited psychiatry residency program.
- May be board certified or board eligible in Adult or Child/Adolescent psychiatry
- Practices medicine in an inpatient hospital, outpatient private practice, outpatient group, community mental health or substance use disorder center, state hospital, jail, private psychiatric hospital, general hospital, or other institution.
- Prescribes psychotropic medication for the treatment of mild to severe mental illnesses.
- Advises patients and parents (if minors) of the risks and benefits of psychotropics, ensures each medication is carefully reviewed and that a release is signed.
- May prescribe and use treatments such as electric shock therapy, trans-magnetic stimulation, Spavato, and other innovative or more invasive treatments for severe or hard-to-treat mental illnesses.
- May treat children/adolescents or adults only.
- May evaluate prisoners or persons being tried for crimes regarding competency (forensic psychiatry).
- Must adhere to a high level of confidentiality and ethics for all patients.
- Must ensure that the benefits of psychotropics outweigh risks when prescribing psychotropics, especially in minors.
- Work with treatment teams collaboratively to ensure the best care is provided, including all ancillary services such as counseling, case management, and other forms of therapy as needed.
- Refer and work with primary care and other specialists to ensure the medical needs of patients are met.
Caya Professionals
- Therapist
- Psychotherapist
- Psychiatrist
Therapist | Psychotherapist
- Can include various specialists, such as psychologists, licensed social workers, counselors and marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors.
- May use varying approaches to therapy, including behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, gestalt, existential, and psychodynamic.
- Degrees required to become a therapist include a Master’s in psychology, counseling psychology, social work, or marriage and family therapy.
- Some states require supervised experience and licensure to use the term “therapist” or “psychotherapist.”
- In some states. the term is not legally protected and can include life coaches and others who may not have the same licensure and degree requirements.
- Can assess and diagnose patients in settings such as private practices, outpatient practices, institutions, or hospitals.
- Can prepare treatment plans and conduct in-depth psychosocial histories.
- Can provide group, family, or marriage therapy.
- Can provide play therapy to children.
- Are mandated reporters for child, elderly, and vulnerable population abuse.
- Are held to a high standard of confidentiality set by state boards and federal standards regarding patient records, information, and financial records.
- Are held to a high standard of ethics and professional standards by state boards.
- Are required to complete continuing education for licensure.
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More Information
A psychologist is a health professional with specific training based on clinical psychological research into human behavior. The psychology field has been studying the mental processes of human beings for over a century and has developed effective methods for dealing with mental illnesses. It also has developed strict codes of ethics and confidentiality that all practitioners must follow to remain board-certified. Psychologists must regularly receive continuing education to stay current on a variety of topics and maintain licensure. Psychologists undergo rigorous training during their education and must complete thousands of hours of supervised practice to become licensed to practice on their own. As such, when someone goes to a psychologist, they can be assured that a high standard of ethics, professionalism, and confidentiality will be shown by the psychologist.
“Therapist” is a term that can include several disciplines with different approaches. It can range from the psychologist described above to a licensed social worker, marriage and family therapist, or a counselor. In many states, “therapist” is a protected term that can only be used by the previously mentioned disciplines and only by those who hold licensure with a state board. In some states, the term is restricted even further, and only some of the disciplines may have this as part of their title. As it is a protected term, you can be assured of a higher degree of professionalism, ethics, and confidentiality as those will be required by the various state boards for those disciplines.
The above has been modified from https://www.humanservicesedu.org/