Expert psychiatric care for ADHD, anxiety, depression, and more. Adults and teens 15 and older.
Now accepting new patients. Most insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare accepted. All visits are private and by appointment.
LegitScript Approved
Drummond Certified EPCS
Pocatello is where southeastern Idaho comes to get things done. It is the seat of Bannock County and the hub of the Portneuf Valley. People come here for the hospital, the university, the stores, and the specialists their own town does not have. Mental health care is supposed to be on that list. Too often it is not. People call around, hear that the next opening is months away, and give up. That is the real problem here, and it is the one we are here to fix.
We treat adults and teens 15 and older. ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, OCD, insomnia, PMDD, and more. It does not matter if your family has been in the Portneuf Valley for four generations or you moved here last fall for school. The conditions are the same. Getting seen is the hard part.
We see patients from Pocatello, Chubbuck, American Falls, Blackfoot, Soda Springs, Preston, Malad City, and the small towns across southeastern Idaho.
This is a psychiatry practice. We evaluate, diagnose, and prescribe medication. We are not the place for weekly talk sessions. If that is what you need, we will point you toward someone who does that work.
Your first appointment runs about 45 minutes. We go through your symptoms, your history, every medication you have tried, and what went wrong with the ones that did not work. If medication makes sense for you, your licensed psychiatric provider can often start it that day. You should not have to book a second appointment just to talk about options.
If you have already cycled through three or four medications and none of them stuck, ask us about GeneSight testing. It is a cheek swab. It shows how your body breaks down common psychiatric medications, so your provider has real data instead of a guess. We also do full psychiatric evaluations and Emotional Support Animal letters for patients who qualify.
Idaho State University is the anchor of this town. Students come from all over Idaho. ISU also runs demanding health science programs. Those programs are hard on purpose.
Here is what we see over and over in that group. ADHD that nobody caught in high school, because high school was easy enough to coast through. Anxiety that showed up the first semester away from home. Depression that turns a ten-minute walk to class into something you cannot make yourself do. Students blame themselves and call it a work ethic problem. It usually is not. If you are putting in the hours and the results are not there, that is a signal, not a character flaw. Get evaluated for ADHD before you are three semesters behind.
Pocatello was built around the rail yard, and it still works like a working town. The jobs here are shift jobs, plant jobs, hospital jobs, campus jobs, and county jobs. Manufacturing, food processing, transportation, health care, higher education, and government carry the payroll.
Shift work is hard on sleep, and bad sleep makes every psychiatric condition worse. Rotating schedules wreck routines. Overtime eats the hours you would have used to get seen. So people push it off. They tell themselves it is just the season, just this stretch, just tired. Then a year goes by. If you have been carrying something for a year, that is not a rough stretch. That is a condition, and conditions are treatable.
Tell your provider what hours you actually work and when you actually sleep. The same medication taken at the wrong hour can leave you wired at bedtime or flat on the job. Your schedule belongs in the plan, not outside it.
A lot of the people we serve live well outside Pocatello. Inkom, McCammon, Downey, Lava Hot Springs, Aberdeen, and further out, where the nearest psychiatric provider is a long way in any direction. That distance is the whole reason people out here go untreated. It is not that they do not want help. It is that help has always cost half a day.
So we plan around it. Early on, while your provider is settling on the right medication and the right dose, appointments sit closer together. Once things are steady, they spread out. If you have records or notes from a past provider, send them ahead, because it saves time. Tell us your pharmacy and prescriptions go there electronically, so there is no paper to chase down.
Call us or book online. No referral is needed. We are taking new patients across southeastern Idaho right now.
Have your photo ID, your insurance card, and a list of the medications you take ready for your first appointment. If you still have the bottles, use those.
We accept Blue Cross of Idaho, Regence, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, and Idaho Medicaid. Cash pay is available, and we will tell you the price before you book. Ongoing medication management is available once treatment is started, so you have somewhere to go after the first appointment.
Getting care shouldn't be complicated
Your first visit is a real conversation.
We create a plan around your actual needs.
We don't disappear. Regular check-ins, easy refills, and adjustments when needed.
9+ plans including Medicaid, Medicare and major commercial insurers
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Gem State Psychiatry and Mental Health serves the Pocatello area with full mental health care -- by appointment only.
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