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Location: 27305 W Oak Rd. Unit A439, Castaic, CA 91384

Our Psychiatric & Behavioral Health Care Services

FMI Integrative Behavioral & Longevity Medicine provides outpatient psychiatric and behavioral health services tailored to each patient’s concerns, goals, and daily life. Care may begin with an evaluation and continue with therapy, medication management, virtual visits, or coordination with other healthcare providers as appropriate.

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ADHD Evaluation & Treatment

Comprehensive evaluation and personalized treatment for ADHD, including diagnosis, medication management, and strategies to improve focus, organization, and daily functioning.

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Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluations

Thoroughly assess symptoms, history, needs, and treatment goals.

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Medication Management

Monitor medications, effectiveness, side effects, and ongoing treatment needs.

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Individual Psychotherapy

Explore concerns and develop practical strategies for lasting change.

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Telepsychiatry

Receive psychiatric care remotely through secure virtual appointments when appropriate.

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Care Coordination with Primary Care Providers & Specialists

Coordinate relevant care and information among treating healthcare professionals.

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Bilingual Mental Health Services

Receive mental health support in English or Spanish.

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Our Programs

Our programs focus on specific mental health concerns, symptoms, and life circumstances that can affect mood, attention, sleep, relationships, and daily functioning. Each program begins with understanding the individual’s concerns and clinical needs so treatment can address the issues that matter most in everyday life.

ADHD evaluation and treatment addresses ongoing difficulties with attention, organization, impulsivity, or activity level that interfere with school, work, relationships, or daily responsibilities. Treatment begins with a thorough clinical assessment because sleep problems, anxiety, depression, and other conditions can produce symptoms that resemble ADHD.

When ADHD Evaluation and Treatment Is Appropriate

  • Difficulty staying focused: You regularly lose track of conversations, tasks, reading, or activities despite wanting to pay attention.
  • Problems with organization: You frequently struggle with planning, prioritizing, remembering responsibilities, or completing tasks.
  • Forgetfulness: You often miss appointments, deadlines, instructions, or everyday obligations.
  • Impulsivity or restlessness: You frequently act before thinking, interrupt others, or find it difficult to remain still or patient.
  • Daily functioning concerns: Attention or organizational difficulties consistently interfere with work, school, relationships, or other responsibilities.

Anxiety disorder treatment addresses persistent worry, fear, physical tension, avoidance, and other symptoms that interfere with everyday functioning. Care can include psychotherapy, medication management, behavioral strategies, or a combination of approaches based on the individual’s symptoms and treatment needs. Anxiety disorders can affect work, school, relationships, and other daily activities.

When Anxiety Treatment Is Appropriate

  • Persistent worry: You spend significant time worrying about everyday situations or possible future problems.
  • Physical anxiety symptoms: You experience tension, restlessness, rapid heartbeat, difficulty relaxing, or other physical symptoms during periods of anxiety.
  • Avoidance: You regularly avoid places, activities, conversations, or situations because of fear or worry.
  • Sleep difficulties: Worry makes it difficult to fall asleep, stay asleep, or feel rested.
  • Interference with daily life: Anxiety affects work, school, relationships, responsibilities, or activities you normally enjoy.

Depression treatment addresses persistent changes in mood, interest, energy, sleep, appetite, thinking, and daily functioning. Treatment can include psychotherapy, medication management, behavioral strategies, or a combination based on the individual’s clinical needs. Depression is treatable, and professional assessment helps determine an appropriate course of care.

When Depression Treatment Is Appropriate

  • Persistent low mood: You frequently feel sad, empty, discouraged, or emotionally withdrawn.
  • Loss of interest: Activities you once enjoyed no longer feel meaningful or appealing.
  • Changes in energy: You regularly feel unusually tired, slowed down, or unable to maintain your normal routine.
  • Changes in sleep or appetite: Your sleeping or eating patterns have changed noticeably and remain different from your usual routine.
  • Difficulty functioning: Changes in mood or motivation make work, school, relationships, personal care, or everyday responsibilities harder to manage.

PTSD and trauma treatment supports individuals experiencing ongoing effects following a traumatic or highly distressing experience. Treatment focuses on concerns such as intrusive memories, avoidance, heightened alertness, sleep problems, emotional distress, and difficulties with daily functioning. A mental health professional evaluates the symptoms and their impact before determining whether PTSD or another condition best explains what the individual is experiencing.

When Trauma-Focused Treatment Is Appropriate

  • Intrusive memories: Unwanted memories, nightmares, or reminders of a traumatic experience continue to cause distress.
  • Avoidance: You deliberately avoid people, places, conversations, or situations that remind you of the experience.
  • Heightened alertness: You remain unusually watchful, easily startled, tense, or reactive.
  • Emotional changes: You experience persistent fear, guilt, anger, numbness, or difficulty feeling connected to others.
  • Daily disruption: Trauma-related symptoms interfere with sleep, relationships, work, school, or other responsibilities.

Bipolar disorder management focuses on changes in mood, energy, sleep, behavior, and functioning over time. Care requires attention to the overall pattern of symptoms rather than focusing only on how someone feels during a single appointment.

When Bipolar Disorder Management Is Appropriate

  • Significant mood changes: Your mood shifts between unusually elevated or irritable periods and significant depressive periods.
  • Changes in energy: You experience periods of unusually high energy or activity that differ substantially from your usual baseline.
  • Reduced need for sleep: You sometimes sleep much less than usual while remaining unusually energetic.
  • Impulsive behavior: During certain periods, you make unusually risky decisions involving spending, relationships, work, or other activities.
  • Recurring mood episodes: Repeated changes in mood, energy, sleep, or behavior disrupt your normal routine or relationships.

OCD treatment addresses recurring unwanted thoughts, urges, or images and repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed in response to distress. Treatment can include psychotherapy approaches and medication management when clinically appropriate, with the treatment plan based on the individual's symptoms and circumstances.

When OCD Treatment Is Appropriate

  • Recurring intrusive thoughts: Unwanted thoughts or images repeatedly enter your mind and cause significant distress.
  • Compulsive behaviors: You feel driven to repeatedly check, clean, count, arrange, or perform another behavior to reduce distress.
  • Mental rituals: You repeatedly review, seek reassurance, count, or perform other mental routines to manage anxiety.
  • Time-consuming symptoms: Obsessions or compulsions take substantial time or interfere with everyday responsibilities.
  • Difficulty controlling symptoms: You recognize that the thoughts or behaviors are distressing but struggle to stop them.

Panic disorder treatment addresses recurrent panic attacks and the fear, avoidance, or lifestyle changes that can develop around them. Care focuses on understanding the individual's symptoms and reducing the disruption that panic-related concerns create in everyday activities.

When Panic Disorder Treatment Is Appropriate

  • Repeated panic attacks: You experience sudden episodes of intense fear or discomfort that seem to occur unexpectedly.
  • Fear of another attack: You frequently worry about when the next panic episode will happen.
  • Avoidance: You avoid places, activities, travel, or situations because you fear having another panic attack.
  • Physical symptoms: Episodes involve symptoms such as racing heartbeat, shortness of breath, dizziness, shaking, or sweating.
  • Lifestyle disruption: Fear of panic attacks limits work, relationships, errands, travel, or other normal activities.

Sleep disorder management addresses ongoing problems with falling asleep, staying asleep, waking too early, or obtaining restorative sleep. Care considers sleep patterns and contributing factors while addressing the effects that poor sleep can have on mood, attention, energy, and daily functioning.

When Sleep Disorder Management Is Appropriate

  • Difficulty falling asleep: You regularly spend a long time trying to fall asleep despite having an opportunity to rest.
  • Frequent waking: You repeatedly wake during the night and struggle to return to sleep.
  • Early waking: You consistently wake earlier than intended and cannot return to sleep.
  • Daytime effects: Poor sleep leaves you tired, irritable, unfocused, or less able to manage daily responsibilities.
  • Persistent sleep concerns: Sleep difficulties continue and interfere with your ability to function during the day.

Stress management focuses on recognizing stress patterns and developing practical ways to respond to ongoing demands. Care can address emotional responses, coping habits, sleep, routines, boundaries, and other factors that influence day-to-day wellbeing.

When Stress Management Is Appropriate

  • Feeling overwhelmed: Everyday responsibilities regularly feel difficult to manage or recover from.
  • Persistent tension: You remain physically or emotionally tense even after immediate demands have decreased.
  • Sleep disruption: Stress makes it harder to fall asleep, stay asleep, or maintain a consistent routine.
  • Irritability:You notice increased frustration, impatience, or emotional reactions in situations that previously felt manageable.
  • Difficulty coping:Your usual strategies no longer help you manage ongoing work, family, relationship, or life pressures.

Lifestyle and behavioral wellness counseling focuses on everyday habits and routines that influence mental and emotional wellbeing. Counseling can address sleep routines, activity, stress, coping strategies, daily structure, and other behaviors that support broader mental health goals.

When Lifestyle & Behavioral Counseling Is Appropriate

  • Unhealthy routines: Your daily habits make it difficult to maintain consistent sleep, activity, meals, or personal responsibilities.
  • Difficulty maintaining structure: You struggle to establish routines that support your work, school, family, or personal goals.
  • Unhelpful stress habits: Your current coping behaviors provide short-term relief but create additional difficulties over time.
  • Low motivation: You have difficulty starting or maintaining healthy routines despite wanting to make changes.
  • Need for practical guidance: You want professional support turning mental health goals into manageable everyday habits.

Preventive mental health services focus on recognizing concerns early and supporting emotional wellbeing before problems become more disruptive. Care addresses factors such as stress, mood, sleep, coping, life changes, and daily functioning while helping individuals identify appropriate next steps.

When Preventive Mental Health Support Is Appropriate

  • Increasing stress: Your current responsibilities are becoming harder to manage even though you continue functioning day to day.
  • Early mood changes: You notice changes in motivation, irritability, mood, or energy that concern you.
  • Sleep changes: Your sleep pattern has changed and affects how you feel or function during the day.
  • Major life changes:A new job, relationship change, loss, relocation, caregiving responsibility, or other transition creates emotional strain.
  • Early professional guidance: You want to address concerns before they significantly interfere with your daily life.

Veteran mental health services provide behavioral health support for Veterans experiencing concerns affecting mood, relationships, sleep, attention, stress, or daily functioning. Care can address concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms, sleep difficulties, and adjustment challenges. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides mental health treatment that includes counseling, therapy, medication, and combinations of these approaches for Veterans with different mental health needs.

When Veteran Mental Health Support Is Appropriate

  • Difficulty adjusting:Returning to civilian life, changing roles, or other transitions create challenges that are difficult to manage.
  • Trauma-related concerns: Memories, emotional reactions, avoidance, or heightened alertness related to traumatic experiences interfere with daily life.
  • Sleep problems: Persistent difficulty sleeping affects energy, concentration, mood, or daily functioning.
  • Changes in mood: Ongoing sadness, irritability, anxiety, emotional withdrawal, or other mood changes become difficult to manage.
  • Relationship difficulties: Stress, communication challenges, or changes in behavior begin affecting family, friendships, or other relationships.
  • Difficulty managing daily responsibilities: Mental health concerns interfere with work, school, family responsibilities, or other aspects of civilian or post-service life.

Conditions We Treat & Who We Serve

Mental health concerns can affect concentration, mood, sleep, relationships, and the ability to manage everyday responsibilities. Care begins with understanding the individual's symptoms and circumstances, then identifying appropriate treatment options based on their clinical needs and goals.

Conditions We Treat

ADHD

We provide evaluation and treatment focused on attention, organization, impulsivity, and executive functioning difficulties. Care can include psychiatric assessment, medication management, psychotherapy, and practical strategies that support daily functioning.

Anxiety Disorders

We help individuals address persistent worry, fear, physical anxiety symptoms, avoidance, and related difficulties with daily life. Treatment can include psychotherapy, medication management, and practical coping strategies based on the individual's symptoms and needs.

Bipolar Disorders

We provide ongoing psychiatric care focused on changes in mood, energy, sleep, and behavior associated with bipolar disorders. Treatment includes monitoring symptoms and medication management, with care adjusted according to the individual's clinical response and needs.

Depression

We help individuals address persistent changes in mood, motivation, energy, sleep, interest, and everyday functioning associated with depression. Treatment can include psychotherapy, medication management, and ongoing clinical follow-up based on the individual's circumstances.

Mood Disorders

We evaluate and treat mood-related concerns that affect emotional wellbeing, relationships, and daily functioning. Care focuses on understanding changes in mood and developing an appropriate treatment plan through psychiatric care, psychotherapy, medication management, or coordinated approaches.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

We help individuals manage intrusive thoughts, unwanted urges, and repetitive behaviors or mental rituals that cause distress or interfere with daily life. Treatment can include psychotherapy and medication management based on the individual's symptoms and clinical needs.

Panic Disorder

We provide care for recurrent panic attacks, persistent fear of future attacks, avoidance, and related disruptions to daily activities. Treatment can include psychotherapy, medication management, and strategies for understanding and managing panic-related symptoms.

PTSD & Trauma

We support individuals experiencing ongoing effects of traumatic experiences, including intrusive memories, avoidance, heightened alertness, sleep difficulties, and emotional distress. Care focuses on understanding trauma-related symptoms and providing appropriate psychiatric or behavioral health treatment.

Sleep Disorders & Insomnia

We address persistent difficulties with falling asleep, staying asleep, waking too early, or obtaining restorative sleep. Care considers sleep patterns and related mental health concerns while developing an appropriate treatment approach for improving sleep and daytime functioning.

Stress-Related Concerns

We help individuals manage ongoing stress that affects mood, sleep, concentration, relationships, or everyday responsibilities. Care can focus on practical coping strategies, behavioral changes, emotional regulation, and treatment of related mental health concerns.

Who We Serve

We provide individualized psychiatric and behavioral health care for adolescents and adults with a range of mental health concerns. Services are available to Veterans and to English- and Spanish-speaking patients, with care tailored to each person's needs, circumstances, and treatment goals.

Adolescents

We provide age-appropriate behavioral health support for adolescents experiencing concerns that affect mood, attention, stress, sleep, relationships, or daily functioning.

Adults

We support adults managing mental health concerns that affect work, relationships, responsibilities, emotional wellbeing, and overall quality of life.

Veterans

We provide behavioral health support for Veterans experiencing concerns related to mood, anxiety, trauma, sleep, adjustment, or other mental health needs.

English- and Spanish-Speaking Patients

We provide mental health care in English and Spanish to support clear communication about symptoms, treatment options, concerns, and individual care goals.

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