# Psychiatric Care for Redondo Beach > Redondo Beach patients are seen by secure video across California or in person at our Long Beach office. Psychiatric evaluation and medication management. **Source:** https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/psychiatrist-redondo-beach/ **Provider:** Breakthrough Mental Health — Long Beach, CA (telehealth across CA) 1. [Home](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/) 2. Psychiatric Care for Redondo Beach Redondo Beach, California Coverage is rarely the obstacle from here, so the obstacle is usually time. Psychiatric evaluation and medication management, 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 sixties on a front porch step at dusk with an old dog beside him, one hand resting on its back)* In short ## Psychiatric care for Redondo Beach Redondo Beach is about fourteen miles from our psychiatric office and roughly half an hour by the 405. We provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and ongoing medication management. More than eight in ten working-age residents hold commercial insurance we contract with, so for most people here the coverage question is settled before it is asked. 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 Redondo Beach 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 Redondo Beach 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 ## Your plan is very probably one 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 Redondo Beach Local coverage data, so you can see roughly where you fall before you call: - Among Redondo Beach adults aged 19 to 64, 69.9 percent hold employer-based coverage only and 13.0 percent buy a plan directly, putting 82.9 percent on commercial insurance. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B27010&geo_ids=16000US0660018) - In the same age band only 6.2 percent of Redondo Beach residents rely on Medi-Cal or another means-tested public program, and 4.5 percent are uninsured. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B27010&geo_ids=16000US0660018) - Redondo Beach has a population of 69,291 and a median household income of $150,245. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B01003,B19013&geo_ids=16000US0660018) - About 2,643 Redondo Beach residents are veterans, 4.9 percent of civilian adults. [source](https://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/data/show/acs2024_5yr?table_ids=B21001&geo_ids=16000US0660018) 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/) For most people reading this in Redondo Beach, the insurance question is already settled. Of working-age residents, 82.9 percent hold commercial coverage, employer plans plus those bought directly, and those are the plans we contract with. Only 6.2 percent are on Medi-Cal, which we do not currently bill, and 4.5 percent are uninsured. Compare that with Huntington Park, fifteen miles inland, where 36.1 percent are on Medi-Cal and close to a quarter have no coverage at all, and you can see why the same practice writes two very different pages. Here, money is rarely the thing standing between someone and a psychiatric appointment. Which leaves time, and a particular kind of reluctance that shows up in comfortable places. When nothing external is obviously wrong, it gets harder rather than easier to justify asking for help. People arrive having managed something for four or five years on the grounds that they have a good job, a decent house and no excuse. That reasoning is not clinical, and it costs those years. The drive is about half an hour and the three routes are within a minute of each other. From City Hall on Diamond Street we measured 13.9 miles and roughly 29 minutes by 190th Street onto the 405, 14.3 miles and about 28 minutes straight down the 405, and 14.4 miles and about 29 minutes by Del Amo Boulevard, sampled on a Tuesday at roughly a quarter to twelve. One honest detail from that sample, since we record what the tool actually said: the option Google marked as the best route, the 190th Street one, came in a minute slower than the plain 405 route listed beneath it. That is a single reading at a single hour and we are not making a rule out of it. It is just a reminder that the recommended line is a forecast, and that leaving ten minutes early beats picking the clever road. Rail is the odd part. There is a Metro station called Redondo Beach Station, and it is not in Redondo Beach. We put its coordinates through the Census Bureau’s incorporated-places lookup rather than trusting the sign, and it came back Hawthorne, about three and a bit miles from City Hall. The next two along, Douglas and El Segundo, are both in El Segundo. So this city has no rail station inside its own limits, which matters less than it sounds because none of them come our way anyway. A rail trip here means east on the C Line to Willowbrook and Rosa Parks Station, south on the A Line, then Long Beach Transit’s Route 51 along the boulevard. For the South Bay that is a long afternoon, and the video visit exists precisely for this. About 2,643 people here are veterans, 4.9 percent of civilian adults, against 2.6 percent in Hawthorne and 5.1 percent in Lakewood. That is unsurprising in a city that has spent decades next to the aerospace corridor. TRICARE and TriWest sit on the same contracted list as every commercial carrier, bill the same way, and need no separate referral path. There is a small piece of local history we like, because it undercuts the postcard. At the southeast corner of Harbor Drive and Yacht Club Way is California Historical Landmark No. 373, Old Salt Lake, where in the 1850s two men named Johnson and Allanson built works to make salt by artificial as well as solar evaporation. By 1879 the operation was yielding 450 tons a year. Before the beach city was a beach city it was an industrial salt works, which is a useful thing to know about places and about people: the current version is rarely the only one, and the earlier one is usually still under it somewhere. What we actually do is narrow and we would rather be clear about it than sell it broadly. We are a psychiatric practice. That means an evaluation that ends in a working diagnosis, medication chosen with care and then genuinely monitored, and appointments that change course when something is not working. We do not provide weekly therapy. If therapy is what your situation calls for, or the half of it we cannot supply, we will say so at the first visit rather than leave you on a plan with a gap in the middle. The pattern that suits this city is straightforward. Come in once for the assessment, because an hour in the room is a better basis for a diagnosis than an hour on a screen. Then hold the reviews by secure video, from home or from the office between meetings. Twenty-eight miles of round trip to confirm that a dose is working is a poor trade for an afternoon, and the review itself is identical either way. In a crisis, 988 answers by call or text at any hour. The county line is (800) 854-7771, and Redondo Beach falls within the county’s Service Area 8. Getting here ## Travelling from Redondo Beach 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 Redondo Beach City Hall on Diamond Street, Google's three options were 13.9 miles and about 29 minutes by 190th Street and the 405, 14.3 miles and about 28 minutes straight down the 405, and 14.4 miles and about 29 minutes by Del Amo Boulevard. Sampled at roughly 11.49am on Tuesday 8 September 2026; the peaks were not sampled. [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=Redondo+Beach+City+Hall,+415+Diamond+St,+Redondo+Beach,+CA+90277&destination=3646+Long+Beach+Blvd,+Long+Beach,+CA+90807&travelmode=driving)checked 2026-09-08 - In that particular sample the route Google labelled the best, by 190th Street, was a minute slower than the plain 405 alternative it listed underneath. That is one reading at one hour, not a general rule. [google.com](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=Redondo+Beach+City+Hall,+415+Diamond+St,+Redondo+Beach,+CA+90277&destination=3646+Long+Beach+Blvd,+Long+Beach,+CA+90807&travelmode=driving)checked 2026-09-08 ### By transit - Redondo Beach has no Metro rail station inside its city limits. The K Line stop called Redondo Beach Station is about 3.3 miles from City Hall and its coordinates return Hawthorne from the Census Bureau's incorporated-places lookup. [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 - The next nearest stations, Douglas and El Segundo, are also on the K Line and both sit in El Segundo rather than in Redondo Beach. [gitlab.com](https://gitlab.com/LACMTA/gtfs_rail/-/raw/master/stops.txt)checked 2026-09-08 - A rail trip to the office from the South Bay runs east on the C Line to Willowbrook and Rosa Parks Station, south on the A Line, and finishes on Long Beach Transit's Route 51 along Long Beach Boulevard. [ridelbt.com](https://ridelbt.com/route-51/)checked 2026-09-08 Local ## Other resources in Redondo Beach These are listed because they are useful. We have no referral arrangement with any of them. - Redondo Beach is one of the cities served by Service Area 8 of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. [dmh.lacounty.gov](https://dmh.lacounty.gov/about/service-areas/service-area-8/)checked 2026-09-08 - The county's mental health help line answers on (800) 854-7771 at any hour and can arrange referrals or a crisis assessment. [dmh.lacounty.gov](https://dmh.lacounty.gov/get-help-now/)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 ## Where to start reading - [Anxiety & Related Disorders](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/anxiety/) - [Treatment-Resistant Depression](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/treatment-resistant-depression/) - [ADHD](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/conditions/adhd/) - [Psychiatry Services](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/psychiatry/) - [Medication Management](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/treatments/medication-management/) - [Psychiatrist in Long Beach →](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/psychiatrist-long-beach/) - [All areas we serve →](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/locations/) ## Frequently asked questions Is coverage likely to be a problem? Almost certainly. More than eight in ten working-age residents here hold commercial coverage, employer plans plus those bought directly, and commercial plans are what we contract with. Around one in sixteen is on Medi-Cal, which we do not currently bill. For most people reading this from Redondo Beach the coverage question is answered before it is asked. Is the drive worth it when I could find someone closer? Sometimes it is not, and we would rather say so. If you want weekly therapy, someone in the South Bay is a better fit, because we do not provide it. If you want a psychiatric evaluation and medication managed properly over time, that is what we do, and after the first visit almost all of it works by video, so the drive happens once. There is a station called Redondo Beach. Can I use it? You can use it, but it is not in Redondo Beach. We checked the coordinates against the Census Bureau's city boundaries and the K Line stop with your city's name on it stands in Hawthorne, about three miles from City Hall. Redondo Beach has no rail station of its own, and from that platform it is still the K Line, then the C Line east, then the A Line south, then a bus. Which route should I take? All three came within a minute of each other in our Tuesday late-morning sample, so take whichever you know. Worth one honest note: the route the app labelled the best, by 190th Street, was a minute slower than the plain 405 option listed under it. One reading at one hour, but a reminder that the top result is a prediction rather than a promise. We are a Navy or aerospace family. Does TRICARE work? Yes. TRICARE and TriWest are on the same contracted list as the commercial carriers and bill the same way, with no separate process. About 2,643 Redondo Beach residents are veterans, roughly 4.9 percent of civilian adults, so it is a question we field regularly rather than one we have to go and look up. I have tried two antidepressants and neither worked. Now what? That is a specific situation with a name, and it is not a dead end. Two adequate trials without a real response is the point at which the question changes from which medication to whether the diagnosis is complete, whether the dose and duration were genuinely adequate, and what else is in the way. It is one of the more common reasons people come to us. ## Booking from the South Bay Choose a time online and a person will confirm it. Video visits work anywhere in California. [Request an appointment](https://breakthroughmentalhealth.health/book/)[Call (818) 286-3862](tel:+1-818-286-3862)