Proctor Patrick Mft

I think Patrick is mostly interested in leasing his space to other therapists. In the seven or eight sessions we spent with Patrick there was zero response from him. He recommended a commonly referenced text and even broke out one of the worksheets from the text.

But Patrick never made our appointments on time; not once. His office is upstairs and is locked. So when Patrick sashays on in 20-minutes late, you've been waiting in his parking lot for those 20-plus minutes. Then he walks in with you and opens up the office. Eventually you sit down and start to talk, and you're outta there before the hour is up.

Our last meeting, I had to focus our discussion which was at least moving the ball forward some. Catharsis, which was good -- but not through any effort on Patrick's part. Nonetheless, after 8 sessions, finally progress.

You know what? After arriving in his signature-late fashion for that session, at the end of the session he had left the building (locked up, the whole kit-and-kaboodle) before I could even get in my car in the parking lot. No notes to quickly scribble, nothing. He was out of his office before I was, and on such a cathartic appointment; that was reasonably odd.

Finally, taking the hint we arrived 15 minutes late for our unplanned-final session. No Patrick. We contact him and he gave us the ol' "traffic by the airport" thing. This community doesn't have traffic problems like that. And wouldn't you know it, we didn't.

We fired him on the spot. For a therapist, this is astounding. We'll be filing a complaint.

I'm a little worried about billing seeing from other commenters. If it comes to that, we'll defend our insurance company from his billings.

Evidently he is only interested in leasing his office space (that he will tell you he owns) to other therapists.

Stay away from this therapist. In spite of the actual therapy services being ok, his insurance billing is a disaster and has created months of work and drama for us. Started seeing him based on his status as an in-network provider with our insurance. After months of seeing him, he finally decided to bill my insurance but had become out-of-network in the meantime (which he failed to tell us). Attempting to resolve this issue with him initially, failed due to this complete lack of understanding of the actual issue or listening. After contacting the insurance, I quickly had a better understanding of what was going on than he did. It appears that he is either trying to bill insurance himself and doesn't understand anything - or he has the worst billing service that fails to keep him in the loop on things. We are now in the process of resolving this with the help of the insurance and the DMHC. Save yourself a lot of money and work and find another therapist!