Meet Dr Delicia

Hi, I'm Delicia M. Haynes, M.D. a bestselling author, public speaker, award winning business coach and founder and CEO of Family First Health Center, an integrative membership-based family medicine clinic in Daytona Beach, Florida. Considered a “trailblazer” in the medical community, I founded the first direct primary care clinic in Volusia and Flagler counties as part of my mission to make healthcare more accessible and advocate for the sacredness of the doctor-patient relationship.

I'm also someone who has experienced suicidal ideation, took time off in medical school to be treated for depression, started my own practice straight out of residency with zero business background, re-imagined that practice into direct primary care, invested heavily in my own healing, coaching, training, facilitating so I could walk out of the dark and help others find the light.

I have coached and consulted doctors on creating the practice of their dreams since 2015. As a result of my small group course Direct Primary Care Rx for Success, I helped physicians kick insurance hassles to the curb, spend less time on paperwork, more time with family, and practice medicine in line with the values that took them to medical school while increasing their income, inspiration, and impact.

Much like my approach to transforming barriers to healthcare for my patients, I'm on a mission to improve the wellness of physicians and medical professionals. I created the WHITE COAT SAFE SPACE initiative dedicated to raising awareness, advocacy and prevention of physician suicide and helping healers L.O.V.E. the life they live.  I speak widely on the topics of physician wellness, mental health, lifestyle medicine, and direct primary care.

I'm double board certified in Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine, highly trained in medical aesthetics, and lifestyle medicine. I serve as an assistant clinical professor at Florida State University College of Medicine and clinical faculty at Halifax Health Family & Sports Medicine Residency Program. I completed my specialty training at the Halifax Health Center for Family and Sports Medicine Residency Program, attended medical school at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology with a minor in Spanish from the University of Louisville where I was a record holding division I track and field athlete.

I enjoy helping individuals and organizations look and feel their best from the inside out. In addition to salsa, bachata, sculling, and chasing sunsets, my passion is to help healers fall so in love with their lives that they'd never consider ending it.