Imperial Beach Community Clinic will promote a healthy community by providing quality health care and resources, with a focus on the underserved.
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Services Offered
Behavioral Health Imperial Beach Community Clinic (IBCC) provides you with integrated behavioral health and primary care services. Our collaborative care team integrates treatment with counseling options and includes your primary care physician, our psychiatrist, psychologist or behavioral health clinician and care manager.
Our behavioral health care managers work with your provider to facilitate the appropriate delivery of behavioral health services. They provide counseling for mental illness, and help you connect with community support programs, day treatment programs, substance use disorder programs, in-patient alcohol detox programs, and crisis housing programs.
To ensure treatment of the whole patient, IBCC offers:
Individual counseling Psychiatry Group classes Addiction treatment and more...
Fees and Payment
We accept a broad range of payment and insurance plans, including Medi-Cal, Medicare and private insurance. Please be prepared to pay your co-payment at the beginning of your appointment.
If you do not have insurance, you can apply for our sliding fee discount program. Through this program we offer visits as low as $35 (based on your income and family size).
Services Offered To: Adults
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicare Medicaid
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.