Meet Augustina Ike, Founder of Bethel Behavioral Healthcare
Board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over 17 years of clinical experience, licensed in New Jersey and New York.
Bethel Behavioral Healthcare Services is a solo online practice serving adults, teenagers, and families across Union County and New Jersey — psychiatry, therapy, and addiction care, delivered by one clinician who knows your history rather than a rotating panel of names.
It exists because too many capable people go years without care for reasons that have nothing to do with need: cost, distance, stigma, or the quiet assumption that nobody in that office would understand where they come from.
The gap this practice was built to close
Across 17 years in crisis management, psychiatry, and addiction care, one pattern kept repeating: the people who needed help most were often the last to get it — and rarely because the help didn't exist.
They couldn't take a half day off work for a 45-minute appointment. They didn't have reliable transport. They'd heard what happens when people in their community "go to a psychiatrist." Or they'd sat in a room once with someone who didn't understand their family, their faith, or their language, and decided never again.
None of those are clinical problems. All of them are solvable.
Bethel was built around that. Care delivered online so distance and time off work stop being obstacles. Evening and Saturday availability so treatment fits around a job rather than competing with it. Most major insurance accepted, with self-pay and sliding-scale options so cost is a conversation rather than a wall. And care that is genuinely faith-inclusive and culturally aware — meaning your background is respected rather than something you have to explain or defend.
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Qualifications and licensure
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Augustina Ike, MSN, APN, PMHNP-BC
- Board Certification: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC)
- Education: Master of Science in Nursing, Walden University
- New Jersey licence: 26NJ01306400 — Advanced Practice Nurse
- New York: Licensed to practise [VERIFY — add NY licence number if it can be published]
- NPI: 1235875162
- Certification: Substance use disorder management
- Clinical background: Crisis management, adult psychiatry, child and adolescent care, addiction treatment
- Availability: Monday to Saturday, including evenings
What we hold to
Dignity first
Nobody is lectured, rushed, or made to justify themselves. You will not hear "just get over it," and you will not be spoken to as a case number.
Whole-person care
Mind, body, circumstance, and belief are connected. Treating symptoms while ignoring sleep, income, faith, or family rarely holds.
Access over gatekeeping
Online delivery, evening and Saturday hours, most insurance accepted, sliding scale available. Barriers are treated as problems to solve.
Evidence-based practice, personally delivered
Assessment first
A proper clinical evaluation before any plan is made. No diagnosis by questionnaire, no prescribing before understanding.
Methods matched to you
CBT, DBT-informed skills, motivational interviewing, trauma-focused approaches, and medication management where appropriate.
You set the pace
Nothing is forced. You decide what to share and when, and you're told the reasoning behind every recommendation.
Reviewed, not repeated
Plans are revisited regularly, including whether treatment is still needed. Nobody is kept on the books indefinitely.
Services
Four services, one clinician, one coordinated plan — so your psychiatry and your therapy aren't split across practices that never speak.
Adult Psychiatry
Psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and medication management for adults 18+. Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD, and more.
Learn more →Child & Adolescent
Therapy and psychiatric care for children and teenagers, with parents involved throughout and coordination with school where useful.
Learn more →Individual & Family Therapy
Talking therapy for anxiety, trauma, grief, relationships, burnout, and life transitions — plus family sessions where the difficulty sits between people.
Learn more →Addiction Recovery
Confidential treatment for alcohol, opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use, including co-occurring mental health conditions.
Learn more →Union County, and all of New Jersey
Bethel serves adults, teenagers, and families throughout New Jersey, with a particular focus on Union County — Union, Elizabeth, Springfield, Roselle, Kenilworth, Linden, Rahway, Cranford, Westfield, Summit, and Plainfield — and nearby Newark and surrounding Essex County communities.
All care is delivered on a secure, confidential video platform. You must be physically located in New Jersey or New York at the time of your appointment.
In-network with most major insurers
Not using insurance?
Self-pay is straightforward, sliding-scale options are available, and superbills are provided for out-of-network reimbursement. Payment by card, check, or ACH transfer.