Understand your symptoms without waiting weeks.
Struggling with your mood, anxiety, focus, or sleep? Connect with a mental health professional and receive a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, explore medication options, and leave with a clear treatment plan — all from home, at a time that works best for you.
Three clear steps.
Book online
Schedule directly — no phone tag, no waiting. You'll receive a confirmation with intake instructions and a link to your video appointment.
Your 60-minute evaluation
A thorough telehealth interview covering your full history, current symptoms, and what's brought you in. Time to ask questions.
Leave with a clear plan
A working diagnosis, a structured treatment plan, and clear next steps. You'll understand what was found and why.
What 60 minutes actually covers
Most psychiatric appointments don't have time for this. Yours does.
Current Symptoms
What you're experiencing, when it started, how long it's been present, and what makes it better or worse.
Psychiatric History
Previous diagnoses, hospitalizations, prior medications — what's been tried and how it went.
Medical History
Conditions and medications that affect psychiatric symptoms: thyroid, cardiac, neurological, chronic pain.
Family History
Psychiatric conditions run in families. Understanding yours informs both diagnosis and treatment selection.
Social History
Upbringing, relationships, trauma, work, sleep, and daily functioning — the full picture of your life context.
Your Questions
There is time at the end of every evaluation for the questions you came in with and the ones that came up.
Jonathan Kim, PMHNP-BC
Board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner providing telehealth psychiatric evaluations and medication management for adults throughout California.
Evaluations here are thorough by design. The goal is a complete clinical picture — not a 15-minute intake, not a checklist. You'll leave understanding what was found, why, and what comes next.
About Jonathan →Evaluation questions,
answered plainly.
A 60-minute clinical interview covering current symptoms, psychiatric and medical history, family history, functioning, prior treatment, and your questions. The goal is a complete picture of what's happening — not just a diagnosis.
Not necessarily. Some patients leave with a prescription; others don't. It depends entirely on what the evaluation finds and what makes clinical sense. No medication is prescribed without a clear picture of what is going on.
Records are not required. If you have prior diagnoses, medication trials, or lab results, sharing them is useful. But many patients come without records and a complete evaluation is still possible.
The initial evaluation is 60 minutes — longer than a typical psychiatric appointment, deliberately. Getting it right at the start produces better outcomes.
Accepted plans include Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross California, Carelon Behavioral Health, Cigna, Optum, Oxford, Quest Behavioral Health, and UnitedHealthcare. If you're unsure whether your specific plan is covered, call (323) 970-2625 or visit the insurance page.
What gets evaluated
A psychiatric evaluation doesn't require a specific diagnosis to get started. Most patients come in with a sense that something is off — but not always with a name for it. The evaluation is what determines whether that's depression, anxiety, ADHD, a mood disorder, or something else entirely.
Commonly evaluated conditions include:
- Depression — major depressive disorder, persistent depressive disorder, and depression with atypical features
- Anxiety disorders — generalized anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, and anxiety secondary to a medical condition
- ADHD — attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults, including inattentive, hyperactive, and combined presentations
- Bipolar disorder — bipolar I, bipolar II, and cyclothymia
- OCD — obsessive-compulsive disorder, including presentations that may have been misdiagnosed
- PTSD — post-traumatic stress disorder and complex PTSD presentations
- Insomnia — chronic insomnia and sleep disorders with psychiatric components
- Mood instability and emotional dysregulation — presentations that don't fit neatly into one category
A prior diagnosis isn't required. Neither is certainty about what you're experiencing. The evaluation is designed to figure that out.
What comes after the evaluation
At the end of the evaluation, you'll receive a working diagnosis and a proposed treatment plan. That plan might include starting a medication, adjusting a current medication, a referral to therapy, or scheduling a follow-up appointment to gather more information before moving forward.
If medication is being recommended, the appointment covers what it is, why it was chosen, what to expect in the first few weeks, what side effects are common, and when to follow up. No prescription is written without your agreement.
Follow-up appointments for medication management are 30 minutes and happen as frequently as needed — typically every 4–6 weeks in the early phase of treatment, less frequently once things stabilize. The goal is care that's responsive to how things are going, not a fixed schedule regardless of what's happening.
Ready to get started?
Request an evaluation and your appointment will be confirmed within one business day.