North Shore Counseling Center

Kaila Fuller

Doctors refused to see me due to mental health issues and decided I need better care. Pretty sure that’s exactly what their job is supposed to be, helping those with mental health issues, but I guess not. If you want to see them, make sure you only have depression and anxiety (but not major) anything else is too scary.

Jennie Albertson

Kind people easy to get to and takes a variety of insurances.

weatherednboston

My problems happened a year ago today. Took me all this time to leave the review. I had been going here since April 4th 2016 trying to get medication for my anxiety and panic attack disorder. It's mandatory you have to see a talk therapist 3 times before you see the medication doctor. I jumped their hoops. I went over 8 times since April 4th. After my 3rd visit they told me that the medication doctor was full and was not accepting new patients until July but I would have to keep seeing the therapist until that time. They told me a YEAR AGO today the medication doctor is not allowing me into the "medication clinic" and they would NOT give me a reason. The office manager says because they are a private facility they are not required to give me a reason. They waited 4 months to tell me this information. 4 months of counseling that I did NOT need. All that office visit money, wheelchair transport van money to get there, being accompanied by a Home Health Aide money. Your tax dollars hard at work. I had been there 2 years before this. Every time I would meet with the med doctor he would ask if I was depressed at all. My answer was always NO. I had asked for a copy of my medical records and I looked at all the doctors notes. On every visit page he wrote down along the lines that patient said she was very depressed. On every visit page he lied. Those are perm med records and he lied on every single one. I wouldn't have known it if I hadn't asked for the records. I guess he needed to justify why he was prescribing what he was at the time. I was wrongly diagnosed as being bi-polar and this office did NOT catch that. I knew I was not bi-polar so I never took the meds and flushed em down the toilet. That could have changed the chemistry of my brain. All I needed was anxiety meds. If you work or have a real life other than being mentally unstable you will find it difficult using this office. Before you leave the office they will schedule an appointment for you. If you say you will be on vacation or you have another doctors appointment and need another day the BIG lady at the front desk freaks out. We cant do that. You have to take this day. "Your gonna run out of meds". (but lady I'm flushing them I don't care...she had no idea I said this in my head) Like pulling teeth every single visit. Then with the wheel chair vans it has to be scheduled at a certain time. They are not big on accommodating you. Even if your disabled and have ADA laws behind you. No more pill mills for me. No more mandatory counseling either. A nurse will be coming to the home instead for me to scribe my meds. So much easier. Since I'm disabled I was able to sign up for One Care. Thank goodness. No more 2 appointments a month for panic meds ....every month for the rest of my life....no way. Glad I finally got out of that game.

Nora Monahan

Nothing but good people I've met here