Psychiatric Care for College Students in Arizona — Online, From Campus or Your Apartment

If you are a college student in Arizona looking for a psychiatric provider, you can be seen by secure video from your dorm, apartment, or any private spot on campus. Sigmon Psychiatric sees students at Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Grand Canyon University, and the Maricopa and Pima community colleges — including out-of-state students who live here for school. View current appointment times; same-week openings are often available, though never guaranteed.

Who Can Be Seen

The rule is simple: you must be physically in Arizona during the visit. Your permanent address, your parents' state, and where your insurance was issued do not matter. A student from California, Illinois, or Texas living in Tempe, Tucson, or Flagstaff for the semester is an Arizona patient for as long as they are here. Visits pause when you go home for break and resume when you are back.

If you are 18 or older, you book for yourself, your records belong to you, and no one else is contacted without your permission. Sigmon Psychiatric accepts children, teens, and adults for psychiatric evaluations and medication management when they are physically located in Arizona during the appointment. Students under 18 — dual-enrollment and early-admission students, for example — are seen with a parent or legal guardian involved in the first visit.

Every visit is with Angela Marton, PMHNP-BC, a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner licensed in Arizona to evaluate, diagnose, and prescribe independently. She is not a physician psychiatrist. You see the same provider at the first visit and at every follow-up, and her public record is verifiable: a 5.0 rating across 88 verified Zocdoc reviews.

What Students Usually Come In For

Most student visits fall into four groups. Each links to the page with the full details.

ADHD evaluation and treatment. The transition to college is when ADHD that was managed by structure at home or in high school stops being manageable. An ADHD evaluation is a standard initial psychiatric evaluation by video: your history, current symptoms, standardized rating scales, and screening for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems that can look like ADHD. When medication is appropriate it can be started at the same visit, including stimulants, which follow DEA telemedicine rules and a check of Arizona's prescription-monitoring program. An evaluation is never a guarantee of a particular diagnosis or prescription.

Accommodation letters for the disability resource office. ASU's Student Accessibility and Inclusive Learning Services, the University of Arizona's Disability Resource Center, NAU's Disability Resources, and the community-college disability offices all require documentation of a diagnosis and recommended accommodations from a licensed provider — extended testing time, a reduced-distraction room, note-taking support, or attendance flexibility. Sigmon Psychiatric writes accommodation letters and completes school forms for established patients, because the documentation has to rest on an evaluation and a treatment relationship. The letter is written only when the clinical findings support it.

ESA letters for a dorm or apartment. Housing offices at Arizona universities, and most off-campus landlords, accept an emotional support animal under the Fair Housing Act with a letter from a licensed mental health provider. The ESA letter evaluation is open to new patients. It is a real psychiatric evaluation: a letter is written when it is clinically supported, never guaranteed, and it applies to housing, not airlines. Check your campus housing policy first — most require their own request form in addition to the letter.

Continuing medication from a home prescriber. If you started an ADHD medication, an antidepressant, or an anxiety medication with a prescriber in another state, that prescriber often cannot keep prescribing once you are living in Arizona, and stimulant refills are the most common thing that falls through the gap in September. An initial evaluation reviews your history and current prescription; when continuing it is appropriate, the prescription goes to a pharmacy near campus, and medication management follow-ups keep it going through the year. Bring your current medication list and your prior prescriber's contact information so records can be requested.

Students are also seen for anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, and insomnia. The full list of evaluations and letters, with prices, is on the assessments page.

Campus Counseling Center or a Private Psychiatric Provider?

Use both if you can. Campus counseling centers are usually free or low-cost, and they are the right place for short-term counseling, group programs, and crisis support. Their limits are also well known to students: session caps, waits of several weeks at the start of a semester, and either no psychiatric prescriber or one with a months-long waitlist.

Sigmon Psychiatric covers the prescribing side. It is a single-provider practice with a live online calendar, so a new-patient opening is often available within the same week. Visits are by video, so a follow-up fits between classes instead of costing an afternoon. And care does not stop when you graduate, change schools, or move from Tempe to Tucson — anywhere in Arizona works the same way. Many students keep a counselor on campus and manage medication here, and Angela coordinates with your counselor or therapist when you ask her to.

If you are already in a crisis, do not book an appointment — call 911 for immediate danger, call or text 988, or call Arizona's statewide crisis line at 1-844-534-4673, all available 24 hours a day. Most campuses also run an after-hours line through the counseling center.

How a Video Visit Works From Campus

1. Pick a time on the live calendar. Book online — openings between classes, late afternoon, and early evening are listed when available.
2. Find a private spot. Your dorm room, your apartment, a reserved library study room, or a parked car all work. You need a phone, tablet, or laptop with a camera and a stable connection; nothing to install.
3. The first visit is 45–60 minutes. It covers what brought you in, your history, prior treatment, and what you want to change, using standardized rating scales where they help. You leave with a working diagnosis explained plainly and a clear next step.
4. Prescriptions go to a pharmacy near you. Chain, independent, grocery, or mail order — including the pharmacies near the ASU, UA, and NAU campuses. Follow-up medication management visits are typically 20–30 minutes.

Cost and Insurance for Students

There is no student discount, no membership, and no platform fee. Self-pay rates are $179 for the initial evaluation — which is also the price of an ADHD, anxiety, or depression evaluation — and $129 for follow-up medication management visits. The ESA letter evaluation is $249 flat; an accommodation letter or completed school form for an established patient is $179. Letters are self-pay and are not billed to insurance. HSA and FSA cards are accepted, including a parent's.

Insurance for students is genuinely confusing, so verify before the first visit rather than after. University student health plans, a parent's employer plan, and marketplace plans all differ in whether they cover telehealth and outpatient psychiatric care, and in whether a specific provider is in their network. Commercial plans may be accepted; coverage and network participation vary by exact plan and are not guaranteed. Call the member services number on the card — yours or your parent's — and ask about outpatient mental health and telehealth benefits. Medicare, Medicaid, and AHCCCS (Arizona Medicaid) are not accepted; patients with those plans are still welcome to book as self-pay. The insurance and pricing page explains what to ask.

Students on a parent's plan sometimes prefer self-pay so that an explanation of benefits does not go to the policyholder. That is a legitimate choice, and the self-pay price is the same either way.

Privacy

Your visit is a confidential medical appointment. Nothing is shared with your school, your parents (if you are 18 or older), or an employer unless you sign a release — including when you ask for an accommodation letter, which goes to you to submit, not directly to the university. Visits run on a HIPAA-compliant video platform.

Book a Visit From Anywhere in Arizona

View current appointment times — Angela sees students in Tempe, Tucson, Flagstaff, Phoenix, Mesa, Prescott, Yuma, and every other Arizona college town through the same calendar, with same-week openings often available. Online psychiatry across Arizona explains how statewide video care works, and the assessments page lists every evaluation and letter with its price. Questions before booking? Call or text (520) 650-5111.