Mental Health Care in Long Beach, CA

Best Intentions Peer Services

What Does Best Intentions Peer Services Offer?

Best Intentions Peer Services is a mental health facility at Long Beach, Long Beach, California, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and partial hospitalization. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy.


Long Beach, CA 90802

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

Types of Care at Best Intentions Peer Services

  • Outpatient
  • Partial hospitalization/day treatment

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Community Mental Health Block Grants
  • Community Service Block Grants
  • IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • Private or Community foundation
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • State education agency funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • State welfare or child and family services funds
  • U.S. Department of VA funds

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Cognitive remediation therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Active duty military
  • Members of military families
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • Spanish
  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Other languages (excluding Spanish)
  • Japanese
  • Vietnamese

Licensing and Accreditation

  • Mental Health Clinic or Mental Health Center

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Supported housing
  • Vocational rehabilitation services
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in California lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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