Company Profile
South Coast Pyshciatry
Company Overview
South Coast Psychiatry is a true multidisciplinary, mental health concierge outpatient group, founded with the intention of bringing together the best and the brightest clinicians to elevate the standard of psychiatric care in Southern California.
We are proud to have the outpatient practice with some of the most highly trained providers in our field: including doctors who have been educated at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, the University of Michigan, and USC, and our Nurse Practitioner who directed and taught the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program at CSULB -- among the top institutions for psychiatric training in the country. Our mission is to be a Center for Excellence in Psychiatry -- where the treatment of patients and patient care is the utmost priority, and the care provided rivals that of the top academic institutions.
More importantly, at South Coast Psychiatry, not only are our doctors, nurse practitioner and therapists highly trained, we are also committed to providing the highest level of personalized, concierge-style, collaborative, "brain-trust" standard of care to each and every patient in our practice.
For those who want the most highly trained, compassionate, and dedicated clinicians for themselves or their loved ones, and the most personalized, concierge, VIP care -- you've come to the right place.
Whether you are dealing with a psychiatric condition, and need intensive therapy and/or medications, or whether you simply want to understand yourself better, identify and work through your issues, and reach the next level in your career, interpersonal life or self-awareness -- South Coast Psychiatry can help.
Company History
Dr. Britton Ashley Arey, MD, MBA is the founder and CEO of South Coast Psychiatry, and a USC educated, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Cedars Sinai trained, psychiatrist specializing in psychodynamic psychotherapy, executive coaching and medication management for adults. Dr. Arey's expertise is in combining treatment for adults who are struggling in their lives both personally and professionally, and want to help themselves self-actualize in all areas of their lives.
Dr. Huma Qureshi, MD is an general adult psychiatrist specializing in psychopharmacology and psychotherapy for patients with a wide range of psychiatric conditions. After attending the University of California, Davis, Dr. Qureshi obtained her medical degree at King Edward Medical University, where she earned a First Division distinction. She then completed her psychiatric training at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), where she had the honor of working in close collaboration with instructors trained from Menninger Foundation.
Shirley Furman, BA, BSN, MA, MSN, PMHNP is a Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner from CSULB, Certified Hypnotherapist, and previous director/instructor at the PMHNP Program at CSULB. She has expertise in psychotherapy, medication management and hypnotherapy. She uses these unique combinations of techniques as options for treatments with adults, adolescents and children (without medication for children). She brings a wealth of expertise in insomnia, smoking cessation, stress reduction, anxiety, panic attacks, fears and phobias, grief and loss, parenting issues, pregnancy related issues as well as menopausal issues.