About Us

Ater Psychiatry is a telehealth-based psychiatric office, enabling you to access psychiatric care from the comfort of your home. We take all major insurances.* We are open for appointments Monday-Thursday 9am to 6pm.

*If you are on an HMO plan, be sure to check your benefits information to see if your PCP is required to send a prior-authorization to your insurance company for psychiatric care.

Our Mission

Our passion is to improve patient care by creating an environment where provider and support staff horizontally cooperate to find the best solutions for patients. We believe that by building such a cooperative work environment, our team can better expand such horizontal cooperation to patients, their families, and all of their caregivers to work together to find the best outcomes for those who need us.

Our Provider

Richard Ater ARNP began his medical career working as a paramedic in the Chicago Fire Department in 1983. After completing a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Modern Foreign Languages at George Williams College in 1982, he attained his associate’s degree in nursing at Morton Community College in 1989. He worked as a nurse in home health and hospice from 1990 to 1993. After relocating to Seattle, Rich completed his graduate work in Advanced Nursing Practice, with focuses on general practice, geriatric medicine, and psychiatry, at the University of Washington in 1999, while working as an as a psychiatric RN at Harborview Medical Center. He then worked as a psychiatric ARNP for more than a decade at Valley City Community Mental Health, King County Jail, Community Psychiatric Clinic, and the VA, while simultaneously conducting a part-time private practice. Rich made his private practice full-time in 2016.