88 cities, one office in Long Beach, video countywide
Psychiatrist and Mental Health Services for Los Angeles County
Psychiatric evaluation and medication management for all 88 cities of the county, in our Long Beach office or by secure video.
Office visits or video
88
incorporated cities in the county, the first of them incorporated in 1850
8
county mental health service areas; our office sits in Service Area 8
60.3%
of county adults aged 19 to 64 carry commercial insurance
1 hr 5 min
by car from West Covina City Hall, timed on a Monday at 7.40am
In short
A psychiatric practice for the whole county
We are a psychiatric practice in Long Beach serving all of Los Angeles County: psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and medication management, in our office or by secure video. Nearby cities are an easy drive, while the San Gabriel Valley, the Westside and the north county do better on video. We do not provide therapy or currently take Medi-Cal managed care.
- 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.
Get directions →Where
Where the county's regions have their own pages
Los Angeles County lists 88 incorporated cities, the first incorporated in 1850 and the most recent in 1991.
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More than 65 percent of the county, 2,653.5 square miles, is unincorporated and home to about 1 million people, for whom the Board of Supervisors acts as the city council.
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The county Department of Mental Health organizes its services into eight service areas, numbered 1 to 8 and covering the Antelope Valley, the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys, the San Gabriel Valley, Metro LA, West LA, South LA, East LA and the South Bay.
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Service Area 8 names Long Beach, where our office is, alongside Torrance, San Pedro, Wilmington and Santa Catalina Island.
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The San Gabriel Valley
West Covina, Pomona, Alhambra and their neighbors, in the county's Service Area 3.
The Westside and Malibu
Beverly Hills, Culver City and the coast road to Malibu, in Service Area 5.
Glendale and La Canada Flintridge
Named on the county's Service Area 2 list, alongside Burbank and the Valley communities.
Unincorporated communities
About a million county residents live outside any city, from East Los Angeles to Altadena.
Paying for care
Who pays, across a county of nearly ten million
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 Los Angeles County
Countywide, 49.9 percent of adults aged 19 to 64 have employer-based coverage only and 10.4 percent buy a plan directly, which puts 60.3 percent on commercial insurance.
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In the same age band, 21.4 percent of county adults rely on Medi-Cal or another means-tested program alone and 11.5 percent have no health coverage.
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Commercial coverage is 39.8 percent of working-age adults in the Census South Gate-East Los Angeles county subdivision and 85.4 percent in the South Bay Cities subdivision.
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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.
The care
Mental health services, the psychiatric kind
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
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.
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.
Office or video, same care
Come to the office, log on from home, or mix the two. The appointment length and the clinician are the same either way.
New patients see Irine Achuamang, a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. Dr. Cho provides collaborating physician oversight.
Getting care
Countywide drives, measured from the edges
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.
Driving to the office
From West Covina City Hall at 1444 W Garvey Ave S, Google's recommended route ran 31.7 miles via I-10 W and I-710 S and took about 1 hour 5 minutes at 7.40am Pacific on Monday 26 October 2026, in the morning peak. Google's note on that route read "Fastest route now, avoids slowdowns". Late-morning and evening traffic were not sampled.
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From Pomona City Hall at 505 S Garey Ave, Google's recommended route ran 43.8 miles via CA-60 W and I-710 S and took about 1 hour 18 minutes at 7.40am 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.
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From Malibu City Hall at 23825 Stuart Ranch Rd, Google's recommended route ran 40.1 miles via CA-1 S and I-405 S and took about 1 hour 9 minutes at 7.40am Pacific on Monday 26 October 2026, in the morning peak. Late-morning and evening traffic were not sampled.
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Seeing us by video
Across Los Angeles County, 93.0 percent of households have broadband of some kind and 5.2 percent have no internet access at home.
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One practice, eighty-eight cities
Los Angeles County is a patchwork. It holds 88 incorporated cities, and about a million people live in unincorporated communities that belong to none of them. Our practice sits at one point in that patchwork: a single office on Long Beach Boulevard, near the southern edge of the county.
From there we see people across the whole county. How we see you depends mostly on where you live. From Long Beach, Signal Hill, Lakewood or Compton, the office is an easy trip. From West Covina, Pomona or Malibu it is not, and video makes more sense. On a Monday at 7.40am, in the morning peak, Google put West Covina City Hall about 1 hour 5 minutes from our door, Pomona City Hall about 1 hour 18 minutes and Malibu City Hall about 1 hour 9 minutes. Those are drives from the San Gabriel Valley and the Malibu coast. From the Gateway cities and Harbor communities near the office, the same morning’s trips ran from about 14 to 37 minutes.
Two kinds of mental health services
When people search for mental health services in Los Angeles County, they find two very different systems. The county’s Department of Mental Health runs the public system, organized into eight service areas, and its 24-hour help line is the front door. It serves Medi-Cal members as their local mental health plan, and its services reach well beyond psychiatry.
We are a private psychiatric practice. We do one thing carefully: psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and medication management, billed to commercial insurance or paid privately. If you have Medi-Cal, know that we do not currently take Medi-Cal managed care; the county is the local mental health plan for Medi-Cal and coordinates with the Medi-Cal health plans, so its help line is a sensible place to start. If you have a commercial plan, we may be in network, and the coverage check on this page will tell you.
Coverage changes from one corner of the county to another
Across the county as a whole, about three in five working-age adults carry commercial insurance. That average hides a wide spread. In the Census subdivision covering South Gate and East Los Angeles, fewer than two in five do; in the South Bay Cities subdivision, more than four in five do. Roughly one in nine working-age adults in the county has no coverage at all.
That is why our pages for the county’s regions each describe their own coverage picture. If you live in the South Bay, the Gateway Cities, the Harbor Area or the north county, start with that page.
The county’s own map of mental health care
The Department of Mental Health divides the county into eight service areas, and it helps to know yours before you call the county. Service Area 1 is the Antelope Valley, 2 the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys, 3 the San Gabriel Valley, 4 Metro Los Angeles, 5 West Los Angeles, 6 South Los Angeles, 7 East Los Angeles and 8 the South Bay, which takes in Long Beach too. Our office sits in Service Area 8, and we see people from all eight.
About a million people live in unincorporated communities, from East Los Angeles to Altadena, where the county’s Board of Supervisors acts as the city council. They are as much a part of the county we serve as any of the 88 cities.
If you need help today
Planned psychiatric care is not emergency care. For urgent help anywhere in the county, call the county help line at any hour, or call or text 988. If someone is in danger, call 911.
Public resources
The county's own front door to mental health care
Listed because they are useful. We have no referral arrangement with any of them.
The county's help line at (800) 854-7771 answers around the clock and is the main way into Los Angeles County's public mental health services.
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For Medi-Cal members, the county Department of Mental Health acts as the local Mental Health Plan and coordinates with the county's Medi-Cal managed care plans.
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Anyone in the county can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, free, at any hour.
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Related
Start with the condition, not the map
Los Angeles County questions
Are you a psychiatrist's office or a mental health clinic?
A psychiatric practice. We provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and medication management. Counseling, therapy groups and case management are mental health services too, but they are not ours. If one of those fits you better, we will tell you.
How is your practice different from the county's mental health services?
The county Department of Mental Health runs the public system and is the local mental health plan for Medi-Cal, and its help line is the way in. We are a private psychiatric practice that bills commercial insurance or self-pay. Both are real options; which one fits depends mostly on your coverage.
Do I need to come to Long Beach?
Not unless you want to. Cities close to Long Beach are an easy drive, and the far ends of the county are better served by video. In our Monday 7.40am sample, West Covina City Hall was about 1 hour 5 minutes away and Malibu City Hall about 1 hour 9 minutes, both in morning-peak traffic.
Is this page the same as your Los Angeles page?
No. Our Los Angeles page is about the City of Los Angeles. This one covers the whole county, all 88 cities and the unincorporated areas between them.
Do you see people in unincorporated areas like East Los Angeles or Altadena?
Yes. About a million county residents live outside any city, and they are as welcome as anyone in the 88 cities. Check your coverage, then choose the office or video.
How do I know whether to call you or the county?
Start with your coverage. With a commercial plan or self-pay, you can book with us directly. With Medi-Cal, remember that we do not currently take Medi-Cal managed care, so the county help line at (800) 854-7771, the main way into its public mental health services, is a sensible first call.
From any of the 88 cities, one practice
Ask for a time online and we will confirm it by phone. Tell us whether you would like the office or video, and we will set it up that way.