# Psychiatric Care for Hawthorne > Hawthorne residents are seen at our Long Beach Boulevard office or by secure video. Psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and ongoing medication management. **Source:** https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/psychiatrist-hawthorne/ **Provider:** Breakthrough Mental Health — Long Beach, CA (telehealth across CA) 1. [Home](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/) 2. Psychiatric Care for Hawthorne Hawthorne, California Three rail stations in the city and none of them come to us. Psychiatric evaluation and medication management for Hawthorne, in person or by video. [Request an appointment](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/book/)[Call (818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862) *(image: A man in his thirties sitting on a low garden wall in warm afternoon light, headphones around his neck, unhurried)* In short ## Psychiatric care for Hawthorne Hawthorne is about fifteen miles from our psychiatric office and roughly twenty-five minutes by the 405, whichever road you pick. We provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and medication management. Around half of working-age residents hold commercial insurance we contract with, and we suggest a first visit in person with follow-ups by secure video. 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 Hawthorne 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 Hawthorne 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 ## About half of Hawthorne is on a plan we bill 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 Hawthorne Local coverage data, so you can see roughly where you fall before you call: - Among Hawthorne adults aged 19 to 64, 45.7 percent hold employer-based coverage only and 5.6 percent buy their own plan, putting 51.3 percent on commercial insurance. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B27010&geo_ids=16000US0632548) - In the same age band 27.6 percent of Hawthorne residents rely on Medi-Cal or another means-tested public program and 14.9 percent have no coverage at all. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B27010&geo_ids=16000US0632548) - Hawthorne has a population of 85,191 and a median household income of $75,848. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B01003,B19013&geo_ids=16000US0632548) 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/) Hawthorne has three Metro rail stations inside its city limits, which is more than most cities on the way here have, and not one of them will bring you to this office. Both C Line stops send you east to Willowbrook and Rosa Parks Station, where the A Line turns south, and even then the train leaves you needing Long Beach Transit’s Route 51 to finish the boulevard. Two trains and a bus for a trip a car does in about twenty-five minutes. We lead with that because a page about a psychiatric office should tell you how hard it is to reach before it tells you anything else. One of those three stations is called Redondo Beach Station. It is on the K Line, and it stands in Hawthorne. We ran its coordinates through the Census Bureau’s city-boundary lookup rather than trusting the name, and the answer came back Hawthorne. The city it is named for has no rail station of its own at all. None of this changes your treatment, but it is a fair example of how we handle facts here: checked against a primary source, and written down even when the tidy version would read better. The drive is the strange part. When we sampled it on a Tuesday at about a quarter to twelve, Google offered three routes from City Hall on West 126th Street and all three took twenty-five minutes. The 405 at 14.4 miles, El Segundo Boulevard and the 405 at 16.0, the 110 and the 405 at 16.8. Same time, two and a half miles apart. What that tells you is that distance is not deciding this trip, the 405 is, and we did not sample the morning or evening peaks, which will be worse. If you are choosing between the three on a map, choose the one you find least stressful to drive. The clock will not notice. On coverage, Hawthorne sits close to the middle and the middle is worth spelling out. Just over half of working-age residents, 51.3 percent, hold commercial insurance, and those are the plans we contract with. Around 27.6 percent are on Medi-Cal or another means-tested program, which we do not currently bill. Another 14.9 percent, roughly one person in seven, has no coverage at all. So for about half of the people reading this the insurance conversation is short, and for a substantial minority it is a different conversation entirely: self-pay at published rates with a sliding scale, or the county line on (800) 854-7771, which answers at any hour and can arrange a referral. We would rather point you somewhere useful than let you assume we are an option when we are not. What we do is narrower than the phrase mental health services suggests. We are a psychiatric practice, which means a proper evaluation that ends in a working diagnosis, medication chosen with some care and then actually monitored, and appointments that change course when something is not working. We are not a counselling service and we do not provide weekly therapy. Where therapy is the right answer, or the half of the answer we cannot supply, we say so at the first visit rather than keeping you on a plan with a hole in it. There is one piece of Hawthorne that has nothing to do with any of this and is worth a line anyway. At 3701 West 119th Street there is California Historical Landmark No. 1041, the site of the childhood home of the Beach Boys, where over Labor Day weekend in 1961 three brothers and two friends recorded a song called Surfin. A garage in a residential street, an ordinary weekend, and then a thing that outlasted everyone involved. We mention it because the people who come to us from Hawthorne are mostly in the ordinary-weekend part of their own story, worn down by something they have carried quietly for years, and it is easy to forget that the unremarkable stretch is where most of the work gets done. Practically, the twenty-five minutes only has to happen once. Book the assessment in the room if you can manage it, then let everything after that be video. What we will not do is pretend the choice is neutral. A first appointment carries more when we can see how someone sits, waits and answers a question they were not expecting, and none of that survives a laptop camera especially well. A medication review three weeks later carries none of it, and driving the 405 twice for fifteen minutes of dosage arithmetic is a bad trade. Split the difference that way and Hawthorne stops being far. In a crisis, 988 answers by call or text at any hour, and the county line is (800) 854-7771. Getting here ## Travelling from Hawthorne 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 Hawthorne City Hall on West 126th Street all three routes Google offered took the same 25 minutes when we checked at about a quarter to twelve on a Tuesday morning. The shortest, 14.4 miles on the 405, was the one it picked. The morning and evening peaks were not sampled. [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=Hawthorne+City+Hall,+4455+W+126th+St,+Hawthorne,+CA+90250&destination=3646+Long+Beach+Blvd,+Long+Beach,+CA+90807&travelmode=driving)checked 2026-09-08 - The two alternatives in the same sample were 16.0 miles by West El Segundo Boulevard and the 405, and 16.8 miles by the 110 and the 405. Both also came in at about 25 minutes. [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=Hawthorne+City+Hall,+4455+W+126th+St,+Hawthorne,+CA+90250&destination=3646+Long+Beach+Blvd,+Long+Beach,+CA+90807&travelmode=driving)checked 2026-09-08 ### By transit - Redondo Beach Station, the K Line stop named after a different city, is inside Hawthorne. Its coordinates return Hawthorne from the Census Bureau's incorporated-places lookup, and Redondo Beach itself has no rail station within its own limits. [geocoding.geo.census.gov](https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/geographies/coordinates?x=-118.369196&y=33.89464&benchmark=Public_AR_Current&vintage=Current_Current&layers=Incorporated%20Places&format=json)checked 2026-09-08 - None of Hawthorne's three stations runs toward Long Beach. Both C Line stops head east to Willowbrook and Rosa Parks Station, where the A Line runs south, so the rail trip is two trains before a bus. [gitlab.com](https://gitlab.com/LACMTA/gtfs_rail/-/raw/master/stops.txt)checked 2026-09-08 - Long Beach Transit's Route 51 covers Long Beach Boulevard from Artesia Station past the office, which is the last leg of any rail trip from Hawthorne. [ridelbt.com](https://ridelbt.com/route-51/)checked 2026-09-08 Local ## Other resources in Hawthorne These are listed because they are useful. We have no referral arrangement with any of them. - The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health help line answers on (800) 854-7771 at any hour and can arrange a referral or a crisis assessment. [dmh.lacounty.gov](https://dmh.lacounty.gov/get-help-now/)checked 2026-09-08 - Hawthorne is not named in the published city lists for the county's Service Areas 6, 7 or 8, so residents are best served by going through the county help line rather than assuming a service area. [dmh.lacounty.gov](https://dmh.lacounty.gov/about/service-areas/)checked 2026-09-08 - Dialing or texting 988 connects to the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline nationwide. [988lifeline.org](https://988lifeline.org/)checked 2026-09-08 Related ## What people here come to us with - [Social Anxiety Disorder](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/social-anxiety/) - [Depression & Related Disorders](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/depression/) - [ADHD](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/adhd/) - [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 Hawthorne has three train stations. Can I take one to you? Not directly, and this surprises people. All three run the wrong way for us. Both C Line stops send you east to Willowbrook and Rosa Parks Station, where you change to the A Line south, then finish on Long Beach Transit's Route 51 up the boulevard. Two trains and a bus. For most people in Hawthorne the car or a video visit is the honest choice. Why is Redondo Beach Station in Hawthorne? Because stations are named for where the line was heading, not for the ground they stand on. We checked the coordinates against the Census Bureau's city boundaries and the station sits inside Hawthorne. It is a small thing, but it is the sort of small thing that sends someone to the wrong place, and we would rather put it in writing. Which road should I take? Any of them. That is the unusual part. In our Tuesday late-morning sample the 405, the El Segundo Boulevard route and the 110 all came out at about 25 minutes, and the shortest happened to be the one the app picked. Mileage is not the variable here. Traffic on the 405 is, and we did not sample the peaks. Is my plan one you actually bill? Probably. About half of working-age Hawthorne residents hold commercial coverage, which is what we contract with. Roughly one in four is on Medi-Cal managed care, which we do not currently bill, and about one in seven has no coverage at all. If either of those is you, we are a self-pay option with a sliding scale rather than a covered visit. I get anxious in waiting rooms. Does that rule this out? No, and it is worth saying that the first visit is the longest one you will have with us. If being in a room with strangers is part of what you want help with, tell us when you book and we will keep the wait short. Social anxiety is a condition we treat, not an obstacle to treating you. Can attention problems really start in adulthood? They do not usually start there, but they often get noticed there. Adults come to us having coped through school and then hit a job or a family where the coping stopped working. The assessment looks at how far back the pattern goes and where it shows up now. Arriving late to the question does not make it the wrong question. ## Book from Hawthorne Ask for a time online and someone will confirm it. In person on Long Beach Boulevard, or by video. [Request an appointment](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/book/)[Call (818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862)