Lomita, California
Psychiatric Care for Lomita, Down Lomita Boulevard
About twenty-three to twenty-four minutes from Lomita City Hall to our Long Beach office on a weekday late morning. Evaluation and medication management.
In short
Psychiatric care for Lomita
From Lomita City Hall our Long Beach office was about twenty-three to twenty-four minutes away on a Tuesday late morning, by the 405 or Lomita Boulevard. We provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and medication management. About sixty-four percent of working-age residents hold commercial insurance we contract with, and video visits cover California.
- Our office
- 3646 Long Beach Blvd # 205, Long Beach, CA 90807
- Hours
- Mon–Fri · 8 AM–6 PM (Pacific)
- Phone
- (818) 286-3862
Telehealth available across California, with new locations coming to Northern California.
What we do
Evaluation and medication management for Lomita
We are a psychiatric practice, not a therapy group and not a clinic directory. That means diagnosis, medication, and someone who keeps track of how you are actually doing over time.
Psychiatry Services
Comprehensive psychiatric care, including diagnosis, treatment planning, and ongoing management led by a board-certified provider.
Medication Management
Careful selection, monitoring, and adjustment of psychiatric medications to maximize benefit and minimize side effects.
Psychiatric Evaluation
A thorough first assessment to understand your history and symptoms and build an accurate diagnosis and plan.
What a first visit looks like
A full psychiatric evaluation runs about an hour. We go through what brought you in, your history, what you have tried before and how it went, physical health and medications, and what you want to be different. You leave with a working diagnosis where one is clear, a plan, and a follow-up booked, not a referral to somewhere else.
Follow-ups are shorter, usually every few weeks at first and further apart once things are steady. Medication changes are made deliberately, one at a time, so it stays possible to tell what is working.
In person or by video, from Lomita
Both are real options and the clinical care is the same. Video visits are secure and available anywhere in California, which for most people makes the first appointment in person and the routine follow-ups from home or on a work break.
If getting here is the thing standing between you and treatment, take the video visit rather than skipping the care. That is what it is for.
New patients see Irine Achuamang, a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. Dr. Cho provides collaborating physician oversight.
Paying for care
Insurance among Lomita's working-age residents
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 booking anything. That list includes TRICARE and TriWest, 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.
What that looks like in Lomita
Local coverage data, so you can see roughly where you fall before you call:
- Among Lomita adults aged 19 to 64, 53.4 percent hold employer-based coverage only and 10.8 percent buy a plan directly, putting 64.2 percent on commercial insurance. source
- In the same age band 15.7 percent of Lomita residents are on Medi-Cal or another means-tested public program and 11.7 percent have no coverage at all. source
- Lomita has a population of 20,225 and a median household income of $93,810, and about 4.0 percent of its civilian adults are veterans. source
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.
Plans we accept
Paying out of pocket?
Self-pay ratesClear, 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.
About visiting us from Lomita
Lomita keeps a steam locomotive in a residential neighbourhood. The Lomita Railroad Museum on West 250th Street shows a Southern Pacific steam locomotive and tender alongside a 1910 Union Pacific caboose, and its site lists it as open Friday to Sunday with free admission. We checked the address with the Census geocoder and it resolves to Lomita, which in a small city surrounded by larger neighbours is worth confirming rather than assuming. In front of City Hall on Narbonne Avenue the Takaishi Japanese Garden marks the city’s sister-city tie with Takaishi, Japan, dedicated in 1986.
The city’s own history is mostly a story about keeping its shape. Lomita takes its name from the Spanish for little hills. In the 1930s it was known as the Celery Capital of the World. By the early 1960s only 1.87 square miles were left of the original 7 square mile subdivision, and after a couple of failed attempts residents incorporated on June 30, 1964, partly to stop further annexation and partly to curb high-rise apartment building. Today the Census Gazetteer gives it 1.912 square miles of land and about 20,225 people, roughly 10,578 per square mile.
The drive to us takes a little under half an hour, and the two obvious routes trade places. At 11.30am on Tuesday 29 September 2026, from City Hall, the 405 took about 23 minutes over 13.6 miles and Lomita Boulevard onto the 405 about 24 over 9.6. West 223rd Street was close behind. At 11.53am on Sunday 4 October the boulevard won instead, about 21 minutes against 22. Four miles of difference in distance, a minute either way in time. We did not sample a rush hour.
Public transport is not a practical way to reach us. The two nearest rail stations are Redondo Beach Station, about 6.81 straight-line miles from City Hall and inside Hawthorne, and Del Amo Station, about 6.93 miles away on unincorporated county land. In Metro’s bus timetable for Tuesday 6 October 2026, no trip from the stops around City Hall reaches the A Line or the stops beside our office. Video visits are the alternative, and they work for every stage of care.
Coverage in Lomita is mixed. About 64.2 percent of working-age residents hold commercial insurance, which is what we contract with, 53.4 percent through an employer and 10.8 percent bought directly. About 15.7 percent are on Medi-Cal, which we do not currently bill, and 11.7 percent have no coverage, roughly one in eight. If you are uninsured, the self-pay rates and sliding scale are worth asking about before you book. About 4.0 percent of civilian adults are veterans, and TRICARE and TriWest are among the carriers we accept.
Our side of things is psychiatric. A first appointment of about an hour, a working diagnosis, a medication plan where one makes sense, and reviews to keep it on track. We do not run weekly therapy sessions here, and we will tell you if they belong in your plan so you can arrange them nearby.
Personality disorders are widely misunderstood. The phrase describes patterns of feeling and relating to people that take shape over years, often as an understandable response to what someone has lived through, and they are nothing to be ashamed of.
Lomita is in the county’s Service Area 8, and the ACCESS Center answers on (800) 854-7771 at any hour. If you are in crisis, call or text 988.
Getting here
Travelling from Lomita
Distances and times below are Google's, timed on a weekday at the hour each route note states, in the traffic it labels usual for that route. Allow longer at the peaks each note says were not sampled.
By car
From Lomita City Hall on Narbonne Avenue the 405 took about 23 minutes over 13.6 miles, and Lomita Boulevard onto the 405 about 24 over 9.6 miles, sampled at 11.30am Pacific on Tuesday 29 September 2026. Rush hour was not sampled.
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At 11.53am Pacific on Sunday 4 October 2026 the order reversed, with Lomita Boulevard onto the 405 quickest at about 21 minutes and the 405 alone about 22.
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By transit
The nearest Metro rail stations to Lomita City Hall are Redondo Beach Station, about 6.81 straight-line miles away and inside Hawthorne, and Del Amo Station, about 6.93 miles away on unincorporated county land.
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Metro's bus timetable for Tuesday 6 October 2026 lists no trip from stops within half a mile of Lomita City Hall that reaches the A Line or the stops beside this office.
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Local
Other resources in Lomita
These are listed because they are useful. We have no referral arrangement with any of them.
Lomita appears in the list of cities served by Service Area 8 of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.
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The ACCESS Center, Los Angeles County's 24-hour mental health line, is on (800) 854-7771.
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The Suicide and Crisis Lifeline can be reached by calling or texting 988, at any hour.
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Common questions, explained
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Frequently asked questions
Is Lomita Boulevard quicker than the 405?
It depends on the day, and only by a minute. At 11.30am on a Tuesday the 405 took about 23 minutes from City Hall and Lomita Boulevard onto the 405 about 24, even though the boulevard route is four miles shorter. On a Sunday at the same hour the order flipped, 21 against 22. Neither sample was a rush hour.
Can I reach you from Lomita by public transport?
Not usefully. The nearest rail stations are Redondo Beach Station, which is in Hawthorne, and Del Amo Station, each nearly seven miles from City Hall, and on a regular weekday no Metro bus from near City Hall connects to the A Line or our stops. A video visit is the practical alternative.
About one in eight working-age adults in Lomita has no insurance. What are my options?
Ask us about self-pay before booking. We publish our rates, offer a sliding scale on request, and will tell you plainly if it is not going to be affordable. If it is not, the county's ACCESS Center on (800) 854-7771 can point you to county services, and Lomita is in its Service Area 8.
Is a Medi-Cal plan something you can bill?
Not currently. About 15.7 percent of working-age residents in Lomita are on Medi-Cal, so it is worth saying before you book rather than after. That is the clinic's position for now, not a permanent one, and the county's ACCESS Center can direct you to Medi-Cal psychiatric care.
My worrying never really switches off, even when nothing is wrong. Could that be treated?
Yes. Worry that moves from one subject to the next, lasts most days for months and comes with tension, poor sleep or trouble concentrating can be generalised anxiety disorder. It is common, and it responds well to treatment. An evaluation is how we find out whether that is what is happening.
Can a family member come to the first appointment?
Yes, if you would like them there. Someone who knows you well can fill in history you may not remember, especially about childhood or about how things looked from the outside. You decide how much they stay for, and later visits can be just you, in person or by video.
When you are ready, from Lomita
Pick a time online and we will confirm it. Under half an hour by car on a weekday late morning, and video for anything after the first visit.