# Psychiatric Care for Lynwood > From Lynwood, our office is further down the same boulevard. Psychiatric evaluation and medication management in person, or by secure video across California. **Source:** https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/psychiatric-care-lynwood/ **Provider:** Breakthrough Mental Health — Long Beach, CA (telehealth across CA) 1. [Home](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/) 2. Psychiatric Care for Lynwood Lynwood, California Nine miles down the boulevard the rail station sits on. Psychiatric evaluation and medication management for Lynwood, in person or by secure video. [Request an appointment](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/book/)[Call (818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862) *(image: A man in his fifties walking a wide sunlit sidewalk at golden hour, hands in his jacket pockets, easy stride)* In short ## Psychiatric care for Lynwood Lynwood's rail station stands on Long Beach Boulevard, and so does our psychiatric office, about nine miles south. We provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and medication management, in person or by secure video. Nearly half of working-age Lynwood is on Medi-Cal or uninsured, and we do not currently bill Medi-Cal, so that comes first here. 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) [Get directions →](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=3646%20Long%20Beach%20Blvd%20%23%20205%2C%20Long%20Beach%2C%20CA%2090807) Telehealth available across California, with new locations coming to Northern California. What we do ## Psychiatric care for Lynwood patients 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](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/psychiatry/) Comprehensive psychiatric care — diagnosis, treatment planning, and ongoing management led by a board-certified provider. - ### [Medication Management](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/medication-management/) Careful prescribing, 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. ### 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 Lynwood 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. Care is provided by our psychiatric team — [Irine Achuamang, MSN, PMHNP-BC](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/providers/irine-achuamang/) and [Austina Cho, MD](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/providers/austina-cho/). Paying for care ## Nearly half of Lynwood, and the rest Usually, yes. We are in network with 19 commercial carriers, including Aetna, Anthem, Beacon Health Options, Carelon, Cigna and others — 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 Lynwood Local coverage data, so you can see roughly where you fall before you call: - Among Lynwood adults aged 19 to 64, 28.0 percent rely on Medi-Cal or another means-tested public program and 18.7 percent have no coverage at all, nearly half the working-age city between them. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B27010&geo_ids=16000US0644574) - In the same age band 40.3 percent hold employer-based coverage only and 6.5 percent buy their own plan, putting 46.8 percent of working-age Lynwood on commercial insurance. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B27010&geo_ids=16000US0644574) - Lynwood has a population of 64,578 and a median household income of $74,844. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B01003,B19013&geo_ids=16000US0644574) 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? Just leave your name and number — tick “look it up for me” and we'll do the checking. Self-pay & sliding-scale options are also available. Verify your coverage[or call (818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862)or request a callback Plans we accept - *(image: Aetna insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Beacon Health Options insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Carelon Behavioral Health insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Cigna insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Evernorth (Cigna behavioral health) insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: GEHA (Government Employees Health Association) insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: HMC HealthWorks insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Independence Blue Cross (IBX) insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Magellan Health insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: MultiPlan insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Optum insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Oscar Health insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: Oxford Health Plans insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: TRICARE insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: TriWest Healthcare Alliance (TRICARE West) insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: UMR (UnitedHealthcare) insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* - *(image: UnitedHealthcare insurance accepted at Breakthrough Mental Health)* ## 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. [Request an appointment](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/book/) Lynwood’s rail station is on Long Beach Boulevard. So is our office. Metro’s C Line station in the city is named Lynwood Station and it stands on the boulevard, and if you turned south from there and stayed on the same road you would arrive at our door about nine miles later. That is the simplest fact on this page and the one worth holding onto. Everything else about getting here is a variation on it. Before the directions, the coverage answer, because it applies to nearly half of the city. In Lynwood, 28.0 percent of working-age adults are on Medi-Cal or a similar program and 18.7 percent have no insurance. We contract with commercial insurance, which 46.8 percent of residents hold, and we take self-pay with a sliding scale. We do not currently bill Medi-Cal managed care. If that is your coverage we are a self-pay option and not a covered visit, and the county help line at the end of this page can point you toward care we cannot match on price. We would rather you knew that now than at the front desk, and the wording is deliberate. Not currently is not the same as never. For the rest, here is what we are. A psychiatric practice, which means evaluation, diagnosis, medication chosen carefully and then watched, and follow-up that changes course when the plan is not working. Not a therapy group and not a walk-in clinic. The problems we see most from this direction are anxiety that has tipped into panic attacks, which people often mistake for a heart problem first, and depression that has already been through two medications without moving. Both are treatable. The second one in particular is a reason to see a psychiatrist rather than to keep trying the same thing. Now the boulevard, in three forms. By car from City Hall on Bullis Road, Google’s quickest option when we checked at three on a weekday afternoon was 10.1 miles and about 18 minutes by Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and the 710. Straight down the 710 was 10.0 miles and about 19. Long Beach Boulevard the whole way, joining the 710 partway, was 8.6 miles and also about 19. The morning and evening peaks were not sampled. By bus, Metro’s Line 60 picks up at Imperial, Tweedy and Rosecrans inside Lynwood and heads south along the boulevard. Metro publishes the route as ending at Artesia Station, and in daylight it does. Artesia is your change: Long Beach Transit’s Route 51 takes the same boulevard from there and finishes it for you, past Bixby Road and Wardlow Road, the two stops our door sits between. Ten of the 256 weekday trips stay on the boulevard all the way to those stops without a change, which sounds like the answer until you look at the times. They run between about 12.20am and 4.16am, on the hours when the A Line is closed and the buses cover for it. By train, ride the C Line one stop west from Lynwood Station to Willowbrook, change to the A Line south, and finish on the same Route 51 from Artesia Station. A local note for the weeks after a first appointment, when people often need somewhere to be. Lynwood Library sits on Bullis Road a few doors from City Hall, a 12,000 square foot building from 1977 that was renovated in an eight million dollar county project, with a proper adult reading area and two study rooms. It was founded in 1915 as a volunteer library. It is free, quiet, and legitimate to sit in for an hour, which is a more useful prescription than it sounds. Most people from Lynwood will do the first visit in person and the routine reviews by secure video, which is what we would suggest. In crisis, 988 answers by call or text at any hour. The county mental health line is (800) 854-7771, and Lynwood falls within the county’s Service Area 6. Getting here ## Travelling from Lynwood 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 Lynwood City Hall on Bullis Road the quickest option was 10.1 miles and about 18 minutes by Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and the 710, timed at three on a weekday afternoon. Morning and evening peaks were not sampled. [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=Lynwood+City+Hall,+11330+Bullis+Rd,+Lynwood,+CA+90262&destination=3646+Long+Beach+Blvd,+Long+Beach,+CA+90807&travelmode=driving)checked 2026-09-01 - In the same afternoon sample, straight down the 710 was 10.0 miles and about 19 minutes, and staying on Long Beach Boulevard before joining the 710 was the shortest at 8.6 miles and also about 19 minutes. [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=Lynwood+City+Hall,+11330+Bullis+Rd,+Lynwood,+CA+90262&destination=3646+Long+Beach+Blvd,+Long+Beach,+CA+90807&travelmode=driving)checked 2026-09-01 ### By transit - Metro's C Line has a station inside Lynwood, named Lynwood Station, and it stands on Long Beach Boulevard, the same road the office is on about nine miles south. Reaching Long Beach by rail means the C Line one stop west to Willowbrook and the A Line south. [gitlab.com](https://gitlab.com/LACMTA/gtfs_rail/-/raw/master/stops.txt)checked 2026-09-01 - Metro's Line 60 stops at Imperial, Tweedy and Rosecrans on Long Beach Boulevard inside Lynwood and runs the boulevard south to Artesia Station, its published terminus. Ten of its 256 weekday trips go further, to the Bixby Road and Wardlow Road stops, but all ten of those are night trips between about 12.20am and 4.16am. [gitlab.com](https://gitlab.com/LACMTA/gtfs_bus/-/raw/master/gtfs_bus.zip)checked 2026-09-08 - Long Beach Transit does not serve Lynwood. From Artesia Station its Route 51 continues Long Beach Boulevard south past the office, so Artesia is where a Lynwood rider changes from Metro to Long Beach Transit. [ridelbt.com](https://ridelbt.com/route-51/)checked 2026-09-08 Local ## Other resources in Lynwood These are listed because they are useful. We have no referral arrangement with any of them. - Lynwood is one of the communities served by Service Area 6 of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. [dmh.lacounty.gov](https://dmh.lacounty.gov/about/service-areas/service-area-6/)checked 2026-09-01 - The county's mental health help line answers at (800) 854-7771 every hour of every day and can arrange service referrals or a crisis assessment. [dmh.lacounty.gov](https://dmh.lacounty.gov/get-help-now/)checked 2026-09-01 - Dialing or texting 988 connects to the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline nationwide. [988lifeline.org](https://988lifeline.org/)checked 2026-09-01 Related ## Further reading for Lynwood patients - [Anxiety & Related Disorders](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/anxiety/) - [Panic Disorder](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/panic-disorder/) - [Treatment-Resistant Depression](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/treatment-resistant-depression/) - [Psychiatric Evaluation](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/psychiatric-evaluation/) - [Psychiatry Services](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/psychiatry/) - [Psychiatrist in Long Beach →](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/psychiatrist-long-beach/) - [All areas we serve →](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/locations/) ## Frequently asked questions Is the station on Long Beach Boulevard really in Lynwood? Yes. Metro's C Line station there is named Lynwood Station and it stands on Long Beach Boulevard inside the city. Our office is on the same boulevard about nine miles south. By train you would go one stop west to Willowbrook and take the A Line south, then finish on Long Beach Transit's Route 51 from Artesia Station. Can one bus get me there? Not during opening hours. Metro's Line 60 runs Long Beach Boulevard through Lynwood, stopping at Imperial, Tweedy and Rosecrans, and finishes at Artesia Station. You change there to Long Beach Transit's Route 51, which runs the rest of the boulevard to us. Ten Line 60 trips a day do go the whole way, but they are night trips, roughly 12.20am to 4.16am. Half of Lynwood is on Medi-Cal or uninsured. Why write this page at all? Because the other half is on plans we contract with, and because the first half deserves a straight answer rather than silence. We do not currently bill Medi-Cal managed care. If that is you, we are a self-pay option with a sliding scale, and the county line at (800) 854-7771 can point to care we cannot match on price. What is the difference between a panic attack and an anxiety disorder? A panic attack is an event, a surge that peaks within minutes and often feels like a heart problem. An anxiety disorder is a pattern, worry or fear that keeps running for months and shapes what you avoid. One panic attack does not make a disorder. Repeated ones, or living in dread of the next, are worth an evaluation. Two medications have not worked. Is it worth trying a third? That is the moment to see a psychiatrist rather than keep swapping. Depression that has been through two adequate trials without moving is called treatment-resistant, and it has its own approach, which starts by checking the diagnosis and the doses before adding anything. Trying again is sometimes right. Trying the same thing again usually is not. Is the drive or the bus better from Lynwood? For a first visit, the drive, about nineteen minutes on the 710 in our weekday afternoon sample. For routine follow-ups, neither, because those work by secure video from home. The bus is the honest answer if you do not drive: the Line 60 down the boulevard, then Route 51 from Artesia Station, both of them on the same street. ## One boulevard, both ends Request a time online. A real person confirms every appointment, whether you come down the boulevard or join by video. [Request an appointment](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/book/)[Call (818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862)