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Usamah Simjee, M.D.
Psychiatrist
Long Beach
✅ Accepting New Patients
💼 7 Years Experience
⭐ Highly Recommended
🕰️ Excellent Wait Time
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Getting to know Usamah Simjee
Dr. Simjee prioritizes kindness and establishing a therapeutic alliance built on empathy and understanding. He provides an evidenced-based and holistic approach toward healing. His specialties include mood disorders, anxiety, ADHD, trauma related disorders, reproductive psychiatry, obsessive compulsive disorders, and psychosis. His experience spans multiple treatment settings including outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and residential.
He is committed to providing safe, equitable, and inclusive treatment for all.
“Everyone has unique and individual needs. It is my goal to treat the whole person. To craft treatment plans that can address their specific health concerns. I feel incredibly privileged for the opportunity to help others along their healthcare journeys and look forward to meeting with you.” -Dr. Simjee
Focus Areas
Bipolar Disorder
Mood Swings
Depression
PTSD
Life Transitions
Anxiety
ADHD
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
Clientele
Adults
Neurodivergent
Young Adults
Adolescents (13-17 years old)
Approaches
Neuropsychiatry: Combines psychiatry with neurology to treat disorders affecting both the brain and mind.
Psychodynamic Psychiatry: Utilizes psychoanalytic techniques to understand and treat mental disorders.
Sleep Medicine: Treats sleep disorders and their impact on mental health.
Reproductive Psychiatry: addresses the mental health needs of individuals during times of hormonal change, focusing on conditions and symptoms influenced by the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postpartum period, infertility, and menopause.
Identity
Gender Male | Languages English |
Insurance Providers
UMR
PHCS MultiPlan
Medicare
Carelon Health
VHP
ComPsych
Kaiser Permanente
Aetna
Cigna
BlueCross BlueShield
Magellan Health
TriWest
MHN
5.0
Incredibly kind, understanding, and thoughtful staff. I would recommend their services to anyone who is looking for good mental health services.
FAQs
1. What is your approach to working with patients?
My approach to working with patients is grounded in deep respect, curiosity, and partnership. I view each person as far more than a diagnosis. Symptoms matter—but they are meaningful signals, not just problems to suppress. My role is to help you understand those signals, relieve suffering, and move toward a fuller, healthier life.
2. How do you integrate medication management?
I integrate medication management as one thoughtful component of a comprehensive treatment plan—not as a stand-alone solution, and never as a substitute for deeper understanding. As a physician, I approach medications with care, precision, and most importantly: collaboration.
Treatment is dynamic. As circumstances change, we revisit the need for medication, adjust dosing, or consider changes when appropriate. The goal is not indefinite treatment by default, it is sustained wellness.
3. What types of concerns do you specialize in treating?
ADHD and neurodivergence. Life transitions. Disorders of mood and anxiety. Obsessive compulsive disorders.
4. What do you believe is the most important part of the healing process?
I believe the most important part of the healing process is the therapeutic alliance—the trusting, collaborative relationship between patient and clinician. When patients feel deeply understood, emotionally safe, and genuinely supported, meaningful and lasting change becomes possible.
5. Do you have experience with trauma or PTSD?
Yes. I trained partially at the VA and the county psychiatric hospital, where I worked extensively with patient's suffering from trauma and PTSD across a wide range of presentations and levels of severity.
6. What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
Woodworking. Cooking. Beach.