What's wrong with my therapist?

I am sorry but when I read blue lipstick I knew she had to go. Blue lipstick? ItÂ’s distracting. Just sitting there typing and blue lipstick. Smh. I hope you find the best care possible. This lady isnÂ’t it

Will you consider writing a review for her? I think it's important to give feedback of some kind. If people are quiet, she might hurt someone more vulnerable.

Thank you Artley ~ Because I was beginning to think that I am not allowed to bring my Rollator into a therapy room or psych docs room, I started allowing them to tell me not to bring it in the room. I thought that was an odd request, but I didn't challenge it. Now I will, thank you !!


Birdie

We’ve gotten really stubborn about ADA rules. We get particularly pissy is stores that are so overcrowded with merchandise that he cannot even get through the aisles. Particularly an issue if he’s in his wheelchair. A doctor not being equipped to meet ADA is not okay.

Hello Seeker ~ Good suggestion. Would you suggest a website that would get attention, yelp.com perhaps?

Birdie

Hello Going ~ Yes, indeed !! The more I reflect back on the last sessions, I have come to believe her physical presentation is off-putting. I was, trying to find the correct word for this, felt her nails, for example were inappropriate and her body language was very telling. Why would she stretch out those red painted very pointed fingernails towards me the minute I sat down. Everything about her smacks of crazy making.


And that picture that she keeps on the floor facing me of a fractured person with bits and pieces disconnected on the print is very unsettling. I knew if I went back, I would turn that picture away from me.


Yes, at first my mind could not grasp her hissing at me for turning the wrong corner until much later on after I left and reached a place of safety. I needed to be safely away from her to reflect on all the oddities that went on and that hissing has been haunting me. Hissing at a client............ imagine that. She could do alot of damage/harm to a patient. This one thing had a reverberating effect on me and it is still going on inside of me, trying to work on getting that out of my head.


Yes, I agree, I think those therapy sessions would be a good story for Stephen King too. The Twilight Zone.... the patient enters the room of uncertainty, what would become of the patient after entering and being exposed to a mind altering experience............ would the room carry with the patient in it's mind forever to be stuck in those 4 walls, repeating the exposure forever, trying to undo the experience and searching for that door of safety. Would the patient take that picture of the fractured person and make it whole again? Let me stop here as I am getting carried away.

I keep reading that this practice has a revolving door of therapists and psych docs. Over the year I have wanted to go there, but my insurance would not permit it, but every time I visit their site online, they have different therapists there. This therapist I am seeing now is relatively new and already there is a slew of complaints about her on Yelp.


And that is another thing, my Rollator. I need that for stability so I am clueless why a person in the medical field would object to "the monster in the room", or "that thing". Such an inappropriate thing for a therapist to show judgments like this and share with a patient. It's one thing to think this, but not out loud. When my new psych doc's nurse objected to me walking the Rollator into his room, when I got home, I noticed that the bags attached to my walker were unsnapped and riffled thru. Needless to say, I won't be going back to these two so-called medical professionals.


Now, I feel I need to go into therapy to deal with the effects of what Cruella De Vill did to me. Fortunately for me, I am not going back to continue to expose myself to this type of shock therapy.


I will start a new psychologist next week with open eyes and will have lots of questions for her. Now, my anxiety is very high about sitting down in front of a new therapist. There are absolutely no reviews about her online, she has been practicing for 20 years. She was listed on Psychology Today and those are verified professionals, so hoping nothing goes south for me. I don't drive myself so I won't have a car to dive into to grasp a sense of safety should this next appt go south. I have never had this experience with anyone before.

Birdie

Wow! That picture is ultra disturbing and just plain sick! She is really out of it!!!

You know I really don't mean to joke or get silly. But, I would want to wear Google glasses or do something to film her because she is really nuts!

You know you might consider writing a letter to the head practice manager about her. I agree with you that what she does is totally traumatizing.

I am so glad that you found another psychologist to work with. I bet you will have a better experience with this new person. Please update us on how things go with your new provider.

Thank you for updating me about the Day treatment program. I really hope you can go.

Also, it is good that you are leaving the psychiatrist too. Going through your stuff is very inappropriate. That practice has a bunch of providers with severe boundary issues.

I wonder who you can complain to about all of this. Even the issue with your rollator should not be an issue according to the disabilities act. And the therapist making nasty comments about it just shows you what a disgusting person and provider she is.

Yup boundary issues and Stephen King alright.

Thank you for sharing your situation with us. Please vent all that you need to. We are here for you.

Wow! That picture is ultra disturbing and just plain sick! She is really out of it!!!

Going ~ I wish I had snapped an iphone picture of that fractured woman in the framed photograph. I almost wished that I could go back there one more time, but alias, won't put myself thru that again. I wonder if the higher ups know that she keeps a picture like this there and what must they think seeing how she presents herself. Maybe, apparently they really don't care.

Birdie

I wonder if they just don't care. Patients must be complaining about her disturbing behavior, including having that picture there. She probably denies having it. But it looks like everything is just being swept under the carpet. I would bet they are just not doing anything about the complaints.

I wonder if many providers left due to being really unsatisfied there.

I am so glad that you don't have to go back there. I hope things go well with your new therapist!

Hummingbird1950

Oh sorry. I think I misunderstood you. I thought you had found another psychologist in another practice.

She is so horrifying that it is not surprising that she has many openings.

I really hope that you can get into a Day program.

Please correct me if I misunderstood you.

Good morning Going ~ You got it right, I did find another psychologist in another practice and I have two appointments with her next week, so no worries

Yes, the psychologist I just saw last week that has many openings is easily explained. I'm soo relieved that I never have to go back to her again. Some of her comments are still haunting me. I hope to work out some of the fears that arose seeing the former psychologist with the new psychologist next week.

Good to hear from you.

Birdie

Hi!

Oh that is really good news! I am so glad that you don't have to go back to her again! I bet your next psychologist would be better. I agree that it would be a good idea to discuss being traumatized by her with the new psychologist.


Thank you for explaining. Please update us on how things with the new psychologist go. Good luck with your new doctor.

Hi Hummingbird1950!

That is very wise of you to do your research on whoever you are going to see. When we need to see someone, it is so easy to just go to whoever is available. So good job on doing your homework!

If I remember correctly, you mentioned that this new psychologist has good reviews and has been in practice for a long time. I think it would be safe to say that you more than likely will find yourself on earth and not the Twilight Zone or another planet. It is just unfortunate that you now have even more trauma to process on because of that witch. That picture that you mentioned is very disturbing among everything else she said and did to you. I don't blame you for not being able to forget what happened. It would really be stuck on my mind. I would have a hard time focusing on anything. Have you ever done EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (EFT)? I was thinking that you could try this in the meantime. I mean even two or three days of waiting is a loooong time. I will look for the YouTube video on it.

I wanted to also mention that Biofeedback can be very helpful for trauma victims. It doesn't matter what type of trauma that you've experienced.

Hi Hummingbird!

You are very welcome! I am really glad that I could be of some help.

I think the EFT video that I was referring to was taken down. But, here is a similar one

That is great that you are already doing Biofeedback. I have heard of Heart Math before. Do you find Biofeedback to be helpful? How long are your sessions? What are they like?

Thank you for the explanation. It certainly does help. I realize there are many different types of biofeedback. I knew people going for EEG Neurofeedback. They simply would have electrodes attached to certain areas of their head and they would sit and watch a game for about an hour or so. Depending on the client's response, the provider would move the electrodes around the head and set up new treatment protocols during the patients treatment.

What do you think of writing a letter to the psychologist that traumatized you? Are you considering doing a Yelp review on her?