The Department of Health and Human Services seems to indicate here that outside of psychotherapy notes (not sure from your post if you are looking to review at that level of detail), you have a right to access all your records. These should certainly be separate documents, any session "notes" as opposed to general diagnostic and billing records.
You can file a complaint with HHS here: How To File a Complaint "within 180 days of when you knew that the act or omission complained of occurred", but perhaps advising the facility that you intend to do so if they don't provide you with the records within a specific timeframe could get them into action sooner. I would imagine that providing you with copies would be less hassle for them than managing any complaints filed with a federal agency. There might even be statistics and ratings they would want to protect, i.e. to avoid becoming an entity that has a larger percentage of complaints lodged against them.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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