# Psychiatric Mental Health Services Across Greater Los Angeles > Psychiatric evaluation and medication management across the Inland Empire, Ventura County and greater LA, by secure video first, with a Long Beach office. **Source:** https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/mental-health-services-greater-los-angeles/ **Provider:** Breakthrough Mental Health, 3646 Long Beach Blvd # 205, Long Beach, CA 90807 (telehealth across CA) The metro beyond the county line Psychiatric evaluation and medication management for the Inland Empire, Ventura County and the wider metro, by video first, Long Beach office second. Video first, office if you like [Book a first video visit](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/book/) · [Call (818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862) *(image: A woman with dark curly hair in a peach blouse smiling and giving two thumbs up during a video call at her laptop, a cup of tea and trailing houseplants beside her)* - 18,487,660 people in the Census Bureau's Los Angeles-Long Beach combined area [api.censusreporter.org](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B01003&geo_ids=33000US348) - 1 hr 34 min by car from Riverside's county administrative center, Monday at 7.40am [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=4080%20Lemon%20St%2C%20Riverside%2C%20CA%2092501&destination=3646%20Long%20Beach%20Blvd%2C%20Long%20Beach%2C%20CA%2090807&travelmode=driving) - 93.5% of households across the combined area have broadband at home [api.censusreporter.org](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B28002&geo_ids=33000US348) In short ## Mental health services for a metro of 18 million We provide psychiatric mental health services across Greater Los Angeles: evaluation, diagnosis and medication management, from one office in Long Beach. From the Inland Empire or Ventura County we start by secure video, because in our Monday sample at about 7.40am the drives from Riverside and Thousand Oaks topped an hour and a half. The care is the same. **Our office:** 3646 Long Beach Blvd # 205, Long Beach, CA 90807 **Hours:** Mon–Fri · 8 AM–6 PM (Pacific) **Phone:** [(818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862) Telehealth available across California, with new locations coming to Northern California. [Get directions →](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=3646%20Long%20Beach%20Blvd%20%23%20205%2C%20Long%20Beach%2C%20CA%2090807) Paying for care ## Coverage in Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties We are in network with 19 commercial carriers, including Aetna, Anthem, Beacon Health Options, Carelon, Cigna and others, and you can check your own plan below before you book. TRICARE and TriWest are on that list, so service members, veterans and military families are billed like anyone else here. **We do not currently take Medi-Cal managed care.** If that is your coverage, we are a self-pay option rather than a covered visit, and it is better to know that now than at the front desk. Self-pay is $250 for a 60-minute initial psychiatric evaluation and $150 for a 30-minute follow-up visit, and there is a sliding scale. Please ask. ### Coverage across Greater Los Angeles - Across the combined statistical area, 51.1 percent of adults aged 19 to 64 have employer-based coverage only and 9.8 percent buy their own plan, 60.9 percent commercial; 20.2 percent rely on Medi-Cal alone and 10.9 percent are uninsured. [api.censusreporter.org](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B27010&geo_ids=33000US348) · checked 2026-10-26 - Commercial coverage among working-age adults is 66.7 percent in Ventura County, 57.6 percent in Riverside County and 53.1 percent in San Bernardino County. [api.censusreporter.org](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B27010&geo_ids=05000US06111,05000US06065,05000US06071) · checked 2026-10-26 Accepted in-network ## In-network with your insurance We're in-network with most major plans, so care stays affordable. Not sure about yours? Verify your coverage in about a minute, or we'll gladly check it for you. No card to hand? Leave your name, phone number and email, tick “look it up for me”, and we'll do the checking. Self-pay & sliding-scale options are also available. [or call (818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862) Plans we accept **Plans accepted:** Aetna, Anthem, Beacon Health Options, Carelon, Cigna, Evernorth, GEHA, HMC HealthWorks, Horizon BCBS, Independence BCBS, Magellan Health, MultiPlan, Optum, Oscar Health, Oxford, TRICARE, TriWest, UMR, UnitedHealthcare ## Paying out of pocket? Self-pay rates Clear, upfront self-pay rates. No surprises, no fine print. You’ll know the cost before your first visit. - Initial psychiatric evaluation $250/ 1 hour - Follow-up visit $150/ 30 min Sliding-scale options are available. Just ask. [Book a first video visit](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/book/) *(image: Three friends laughing as they hike a dry chaparral trail on a golden hillside, light backpacks on their shoulders)* ## A metro bigger than any one county Greater Los Angeles has no single boundary, so we use the one the Census Bureau draws. Its Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area holds about 18.5 million people. That reaches far past Los Angeles County, into the Inland Empire and Ventura County, and Orange County alongside them. Across that metro, getting to one appointment is rarely the hard part. Keeping up with follow-ups every few weeks is. On a Monday morning, at 7.40 and 7.41am, Google put Ontario City Hall about 1 hour 28 minutes from our door, the Riverside County Administrative Center about 1 hour 34 minutes, and the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza about 1 hour 40 minutes, all in morning-peak traffic. Google said a slowdown and construction were adding 34 minutes to the Thousand Oaks trip that morning, so that one was a bad day. Even so, that is a lot of freeway for a thirty-minute follow-up, which is why we lead with video across the metro. ## Two outlines the Census draws The Census Bureau draws more than one outline around Los Angeles. Its Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area is Los Angeles and Orange counties together, close to 13 million people. Its wider combined area adds Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties, for about 18.5 million. We use the wider one here, because Ontario, Riverside and Thousand Oaks belong to it, and from all three of them we would start your care on video. Each county also keeps its own front door for mental health care. Orange County’s OC Links answers by phone or chat at any hour. Riverside’s CARES Line handles access and referrals around the clock, and San Bernardino keeps a 24-hour access line of its own. For Ventura County we could not verify a current line while writing this page, so we have not listed one; your health plan or 988 is a safe first call there. ## What we mean by mental health services Mental health services is a broad phrase. It covers therapists and counselors, support groups, county clinics, crisis teams and psychiatric practices. Ours is the psychiatric kind. We evaluate what is going on, make a diagnosis where one is clear, and manage medication with regular follow-up for as long as it helps. That focus is useful to know before you call. If you want weekly talk therapy, a therapist is your first stop. If you need a medication evaluation, or a second look at a treatment that is not working, that is our work. ## How video works across the metro Under California’s telehealth law, agreeing to video care does not shut you out of in-person visits later in the same treatment. Our office is on Long Beach Boulevard, and if you ever want to meet there on a weekday, you can. ## Coverage changes county by county Insurance looks different across the metro. Two in three working-age adults in Ventura County carry commercial coverage, compared with closer to half in San Bernardino County. Check your plan with the coverage tool on this page before booking. We do not currently take Medi-Cal managed care. The county lines listed further down, for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, connect residents to each county’s own behavioral health services. ## Crisis help, county by county Psychiatric visits are planned care. If you need help sooner, call your county’s line from the list on this page, or call or text 988 from anywhere. In an emergency, call 911. The care ## Psychiatric services, not a directory This is a psychiatric practice. We diagnose, we manage medication, and we keep seeing you so the plan keeps fitting your life. We do not run therapy groups or weekly talk therapy. - ### [Psychiatry Services](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/psychiatry/) Comprehensive psychiatric care, including diagnosis, treatment planning, and ongoing management led by a board-certified provider. - ### [Medication Management](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/medication-management/) Careful selection, monitoring, and adjustment of psychiatric medications to maximize benefit and minimize side effects. - ### [Psychiatric Evaluation](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/psychiatric-evaluation/) A thorough first assessment to understand your history and symptoms and build an accurate diagnosis and plan. *(image: A man with earbuds smiling quietly as he looks out the window of a commuter train in soft morning light)* ### The first appointment Plan on about an hour. We ask what brought you in, what has and has not helped before, your health and current medications, and what you would like to feel different. You leave with a working diagnosis where one is clear, a plan, and the next visit already on the calendar. Follow-ups are shorter. They come every few weeks while a plan settles and spread out once it holds, and any medication change is made one step at a time so its effect stays readable. ### Video is the whole visit A video appointment is a full psychiatric visit, not a lesser version. Evaluation, diagnosis and medication follow-up all happen on screen, from anywhere in California. New patients see [Irine Achuamang](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/providers/irine-achuamang/), a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. [Dr. Cho](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/providers/austina-cho/) provides collaborating physician oversight. Getting care ## Three cross-county drives, measured once Drive times are Google's, sampled once at the hour each note names, in that hour's traffic. Peaks that were not sampled will run longer. ### Seeing us by video - Across the combined statistical area, 93.5 percent of households have broadband of some kind and 4.6 percent have no internet access at home. [api.censusreporter.org](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B28002&geo_ids=33000US348) · checked 2026-10-26 - Under Business and Professions Code section 2290.5, a patient who agrees to telehealth is not precluded from receiving in-person care during the same course of treatment. [leginfo.legislature.ca.gov](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=2290.5) · checked 2026-10-26 ### Driving to the office - From Riverside County Administrative Center at 4080 Lemon St, Google's recommended route ran 57.6 miles via CA-91 W and took about 1 hour 34 minutes at 7.40am Pacific on Monday 26 October 2026, in the morning peak. Late-morning and evening traffic were not sampled. [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=4080%20Lemon%20St%2C%20Riverside%2C%20CA%2092501&destination=3646%20Long%20Beach%20Blvd%2C%20Long%20Beach%2C%20CA%2090807&travelmode=driving) · checked 2026-10-26 - From Ontario City Hall at 303 E B St, Google's recommended route ran 49.8 miles via CA-60 W and took about 1 hour 28 minutes at 7.41am Pacific on Monday 26 October 2026, in the morning peak. Google's note on that route read "Fastest route now, avoids crash on CA-57 S". Late-morning and evening traffic were not sampled. [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=303%20E%20B%20St%2C%20Ontario%2C%20CA%2091764&destination=3646%20Long%20Beach%20Blvd%2C%20Long%20Beach%2C%20CA%2090807&travelmode=driving) · checked 2026-10-26 - From Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza at 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Google's recommended route ran 57.5 miles via US-101 S and I-405 S and took about 1 hour 40 minutes at 7.41am Pacific on Monday 26 October 2026, in the morning peak. Google's note on that route read "Best route, despite slowdown and construction causing 34-min delay". Late-morning and evening traffic were not sampled. [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=2100%20Thousand%20Oaks%20Blvd%2C%20Thousand%20Oaks%2C%20CA%2091362&destination=3646%20Long%20Beach%20Blvd%2C%20Long%20Beach%2C%20CA%2090807&travelmode=driving) · checked 2026-10-26 Where ## Beyond the Los Angeles County line ### How Greater Los Angeles is defined - The Census Bureau's Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area held 18,487,660 residents in its 2020 to 2024 estimates. [api.censusreporter.org](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B01003&geo_ids=33000US348) · checked 2026-10-26 - That total equals the populations of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties added together, 9,808,667, 3,165,820, 2,478,600, 2,197,104 and 837,469. [api.censusreporter.org](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B01003&geo_ids=05000US06037,05000US06059,05000US06065,05000US06071,05000US06111,33000US348) · checked 2026-10-26 - The narrower Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area held 12,974,487 residents in the same estimates, exactly the Los Angeles and Orange county populations added together. [api.censusreporter.org](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B01003&geo_ids=31000US31080,05000US06037,05000US06059) · checked 2026-10-26 - In the Census geocoder, the Riverside County Administrative Center falls in Riverside County, Ontario City Hall in San Bernardino County and the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Ventura County. [geocoding.geo.census.gov](https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/geographies/address?benchmark=Public_AR_Current&vintage=Current_Current&layers=Counties&format=json) · checked 2026-10-26 ### Other places we hear from - Riverside County We timed one drive from here, from the county administrative center on Lemon Street in Riverside. - San Bernardino County Ontario City Hall, our sample origin for the west end of the Inland Empire, sits in this county. - Ventura County Home of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, the third origin we timed for this page. - Orange County Inside both the narrower metro area and the wider combined area, and covered on its own page. - Los Angeles County About 9.8 million of the metro's people, and the county our office is in. Related ## Conditions and treatments, explained - [Anxiety & Related Disorders](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/anxiety/) - [Bipolar & Related Disorders](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/bipolar/) - [Panic Disorder](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/panic-disorder/) - [Psychiatry Services](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/psychiatry/) - [Psychiatric Evaluation](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/psychiatric-evaluation/) - [Telepsychiatry in California →](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/telepsychiatry/) - [Psychiatrist in Long Beach →](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/psychiatrist-long-beach/) - [All areas we serve →](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/locations/) Public resources ## Each county's behavioral health line Listed because they are useful. We have no referral arrangement with any of them. - Los Angeles County's help line, (800) 854-7771, answers at any hour for county residents. [dmh.lacounty.gov](https://dmh.lacounty.gov/get-help-now/) · checked 2026-10-26 - Orange County's OC Links line, (855) 625-4657, connects residents to county behavioral health services by phone or chat around the clock. [ochealthinfo.com](https://www.ochealthinfo.com/services-programs/mental-health-crisis-recovery/navigation-help-resources/oc-links) · checked 2026-10-26 - In Riverside County, the CARES Line at (800) 499-3008 handles behavioral health access and referrals 24 hours a day. [ruhealth.org](https://www.ruhealth.org/behavioral-health/older-adult-services) · checked 2026-10-26 - San Bernardino County's behavioral health access line, (888) 743-1478, is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [wp.sbcounty.gov](https://wp.sbcounty.gov/dbh/osp/) · checked 2026-10-26 - Anywhere in the metro, 988 reaches the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by call, text or chat. [988lifeline.org](https://988lifeline.org/) · checked 2026-10-26 ## Greater Los Angeles questions ### What counts as Greater Los Angeles here? We use the Census Bureau's Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area, a metro of about 18.5 million people that reaches well past Los Angeles County into its neighbors, including Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties. ### Do I have to come to Long Beach from the Inland Empire? No. In our Monday morning-peak sample, Ontario City Hall was about 1 hour 28 minutes from the office at 7.41am and the Riverside County Administrative Center about 1 hour 34 minutes at 7.40am. Video visits cover the evaluation and every follow-up, and the office stays available on weekdays if you ever want to come in. ### Is a psychiatric practice the same as a mental health service? It is one kind. Mental health services also include counseling, support groups and county programs. We provide the psychiatric part: evaluation, diagnosis and medication management. ### Do you take health plans from the Inland Empire? Several of the carriers we bill are national companies, so plans sold in Riverside or San Bernardino County may be among them. Check your own plan with the coverage tool on this page before you book. ### Why is Ventura County's mental health line not listed? We could not verify a current number from Ventura County's own website while writing this page, so we would rather list none than a stale one. Your health plan or 988 is a safe first call there. ### How is this page different from your Los Angeles County page? That page covers one county. This one covers the wider metro the Census Bureau draws around it, which adds Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties. ## A metro this big calls for a screen Pick a time online and we will call to confirm. Your first appointment can be on video, wherever in the metro you live. [Book a first video visit](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/book/) · [Call (818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862)