Martha B. Koo, MD

Psychiatrist; MD

License # G78080

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Dr. Martha B. Koo, M.D., LFAPA, FCTMSS, completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, and her medical training at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where she earned membership to the AOA and Sigma Xi Society for academic excellence. She obtained her psychiatry residency training at the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA and her subsequent psychoanalytic training at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Koo is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Board Certified in Addiction Medicine. She is also CIIS certified in psychedelic assisted therapy. For almost thirty years Dr. Koo has enjoyed her private practice, providing outpatient psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and pharmacological treatment for individuals, couples, and families. A pioneer in the development and application of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Dr. Koo opened the South Bay TMS Therapy Center in 2009. She is certified in the application of Magnetic E-Resonance, Neurostar, Brainsway, and MagVenture rTMS therapies. South Bay TMS evolved into the Neuro Wellness Spa (NWS), where Dr. Koo is Chief Medical Officer. NWS is an in-network psychiatry practice with eleven outpatient clinics across the greater LA area that offer medication management, psychotherapy, TMS and Magnetic E-Resonance therapy for treatment-resistant mental illness. Dr. Koo is also the Chief Medical Officer at Clear Behavioral Health, which offers a full continuum of care from residential detox to partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient treatment for individuals struggling with mental health, addiction, and dual diagnoses at multiple sites in the greater LA area. Additionally, Dr. Koo is a Medical Advisor for Osmind, on the Clinic Advisory Boards of Magellan and Optum, and the Immediate Past- President of the Clinical TMS Society. She is on the Board of Directors of the CTMSS and of FACTMS, and on the Board of Directors of the Beach Cities Health District. Dr. Koo is a member of the American Psychiatric Association (Life Fellow), the New Center for Psychoanalysis, the Clinical TMS Society (Fellow), the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the American Society of Ketamine Physicians, the Psychedelic Medicine Association, the California Psychiatric Society, and the Southern California Psychiatric Society (Distinguished Fellow).