Susanville Coverage
Full telehealth coverage for Susanville, Lassen County and surrounding North State communities. Population: 14,000+
Now Licensed in California
Dr. Ben Soffer is now licensed in California. We're completing the final steps to open — join the waitlist for first access.
Fast Susanville Delivery
Medication ships discreetly to North State addresses with typical delivery times of 2-3 business days throughout Shasta, Butte, Tehama, Humboldt, Lassen, and the surrounding far-northern counties.
Why Susanville patients choose DiscreetKetamine
Conditions we treat
Ketamine therapy is most effective for patients whose depression, anxiety, PTSD, or chronic pain hasn't responded to conventional treatments.
Ketamine therapy Susanville, CA pricing
Physician consultations from $250/month. Susanville residents pay the same as anywhere else in California. Medication billed separately by our partner pharmacy.
Medication cost (Susanville): Ketamine 200 mg sublingual tablets — ~$5/tablet (10 minimum), billed separately by our partner pharmacy. Shipping to Susanville: $20 UPS Ground or $35–45 FedEx Next Day.
Mental health care in Susanville, California
Susanville is the seat of Lassen County, a high-desert community tucked against the eastern Sierra at the edge of California's remote northeast corner. With long winters, vast distances between towns, and very few local mental health specialists, residents here often face a multi-hour drive toward Reno or Redding just to see a provider. At-home ketamine therapy brings care directly to Susanville residents through telehealth, sparing them those long trips across the mountains.
Work in Susanville has long come from institutions rather than industry. State prisons, Lassen Community College, the hospital, and federal land agencies carry much of the payroll, which means shift schedules and rotating hours are ordinary here, and the closure of the California Correctional Center was felt in households across the county. Then there is the winter. Sitting at elevation on the east side of the Sierra, Susanville gets snow that closes in on mountain routes like Highway 36 and Highway 44, and a follow-up that requires crossing a pass is a follow-up that gets skipped. Telehealth takes the pass out of the equation. Visits can be set around a rotating shift, and monitoring carries on through January the same way it does in July.
We serve patients across Susanville and the surrounding area, including Uptown Susanville, Downtown Susanville, Johnstonville, and Janesville.
California's North State covers the vast, mostly rural top of the state, anchored by Redding in Shasta County and Chico in Butte County and stretching across Tehama, Humboldt, Lassen, Siskiyou, Trinity, and the surrounding counties up to the Oregon border. It is a region of dramatic distances, from the Sacramento Valley's orchards and ranchland to Mount Shasta, the Trinity Alps, and the redwood coast around Eureka and Arcata. Our at-home ketamine therapy program brings licensed physician care to North State residents through telehealth, with medication delivered straight to your door rather than at the end of a long drive south.
Much of the North State is federally recognized as a mental health professional shortage area, with specialists clustered in Redding and Chico and very few options across the more remote reaches of Lassen, Trinity, Modoc, and the Humboldt coast. Wildfire seasons have added lasting strain, from the Camp Fire that devastated Paradise and displaced thousands of Butte County residents to repeated fire and evacuation cycles across Shasta and Tehama counties. For many people here, the nearest psychiatrist is a multi-hour drive toward Sacramento, Reno, or the Bay Area, which leaves treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and PTSD undertreated.
In a region this large and rugged, geography is often the biggest barrier to care, whether that means winter passes around Susanville, winding Highway 299 and 101 along the redwood coast, or a long run down Interstate 5. At-home ketamine therapy removes the drive entirely. You meet your physician by secure video from your own home in Redding, Chico, Eureka, Red Bluff, or anywhere across the far north, treat in a private and familiar space, and handle follow-ups remotely, so distance and weather no longer stand between you and treatment.
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