Meet Your Provider
Esder Shin, PMHNP-BC
Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Esder Shin is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience providing compassionate, evidence-based psychiatric care. With a patient-centered approach, Esder combines medication management expertise with a holistic understanding of mental health, ensuring each patient receives personalized treatment tailored to their unique needs and goals.
Esder’s approach integrates the latest psychiatric medications with functional medicine principles and behavioral health strategies. She specializes in complex medication management, diagnostic clarification, and helping patients achieve lasting mental health improvements through collaborative, evidence-based care.
- Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC)
- Expert in medication management and psychiatric evaluations
- Specializes in telepsychiatry and virtual mental health care
- Proficient in GeneSight® pharmacogenomic testing
- Treats 8+ mental health conditions with evidence-based approaches
- Offers both virtual and in-person appointments throughout California
- Offers in-person appointments in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Venice, and Marina del Rey, with virtual appointments available to patients anywhere in California, including San Francisco and the Bay Area.
How Esder Works With Patients
Most first appointments run 60 to 90 minutes. That length is deliberate: a rushed intake is how diagnoses get missed, and it is the most common complaint from patients who arrive after a poor experience elsewhere. The evaluation covers symptom history, medical background, current and past medications, sleep, and what has already been tried.
Follow-ups are weekly or every other week early on, then every one to three months once a plan is working. Patients keep the same provider throughout. There is no rotating panel of clinicians.
Esder’s approach integrates the latest psychiatric medications with functional medicine principles and behavioral health strategies. She specializes in complex medication management, diagnostic clarification, and helping patients achieve lasting mental health improvements through collaborative, evidence-based care.
Areas of Focus
Esder works most often with adults who have complex medication histories: people who have cycled through several drugs without a clear result, people who want to reduce or come off a medication safely, and people seeking a second opinion on a diagnosis made years earlier. GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing is available when trial and error has not produced an answer.
Where She Practices
In-person appointments are at 11850 Wilshire Blvd #200A in West Los Angeles, convenient to Santa Monica, Venice, Brentwood and Marina del Rey. Telepsychiatry appointments are available to patients anywhere in California, including San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Credentials & Expertise
- Licensed Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC)
- Specializes in medication management and psychiatric evaluations
- Expert in telepsychiatry and virtual mental health care
- Proficient in GeneSight® pharmacogenomic testing
- Treats anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, PTSD, eating disorders, and panic disorders
