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Avoid Ellen Ochs, Quincy MA, especially if you're autistic

I saw her just once, and when I left her office in tears, all she offered me was a condescending “Well, sometimes it just doesn’t work out between people.” She interrupted me five times in the course of 30 minutes, and when I mentioned wanting to see her as a therapist on top of my current one, she -rolled her eyes-, and tried to convince me a person seeing two therapists is entirely unheard of (which is…. False). I mentioned my partner being autistic, and she got so caught up in classifying them as “autistic or aspergers,” despite my assertions that this is not only outdated information WRT the DSM, but also completely irrelevant to my personal treatment, she missed my saying basic information like “I have three sisters." 

Overall, she was rude, condescending, works off of outdated diagnostic information, and incredibly deumanizing when speaking about people on the autism spectrum. Her listening skills are poor, and she clearly has no interest in taking personal accountability for her poor behavior, or having any flexibility whatsoever in her patients’ treatment plans. 

Rose Medical Center Denver CO - The Center of Disease Control

The company LabCorp the CDC (The Center of Disease Control) at Rose Medical Center goes through to get lab work done for patients; the facility is not properly equipped to have these labs done on a professional, safe, or sanitary level (the possibility of contamination of labs & the improper disposal of bio-hazardous waste material). On another note: LabCorp consistently sends lab bill(s) to patient regardless if they have health insurance or assistance from a program. After waiting 45min in their waiting room. I was told it would be another 30 to 45min wait before getting lab work done (I ended up leaving). I’ve had my lab work possessed wrong several times (name, address, birth date, etc…) by the technicians & the receptionist at CDC. As representatives who deal with patients, every interaction an employee makes, they represent the face of the company. Overall they lack empathy & need to work on their communication manners. Being employed through a government facility they should have pride in their work. This is probably not the first time patients have felt empty handed & questioning the quality of service being provided.

Seattle Children's Hospital Gender Clinic and Susan Sidman, LMHC

If you have or are a young person seeking assistance with gender transitions, I would not recommend Seattle Children’s or Susan Sidman. I can’t speak to any other therapists or providers because we left Children’s after our first meeting with Susan Sidman. The process is very pathologized at Children’s (despite lengthy assurances to the contrary from Lara Hayden, the Gender Clinic program manager). Susan Sidman acted as if she didn’t believe my very mature 14yo child was capable of knowing or understanding anything. Sidman referred to gender dysphoria through the lens of mental illness, and didn’t seem to view my kid as a valid, perfectly fine, person. She kept going on about how my kid was very likely going to become an enraged nut once on testosterone. It was not a good vibe. I want facts, and I know hormones can affect people (duh), but she was not professional in how she presented this information, and treated it as a bit of a joke. It was like she had this caricature of a person on T in her head. I’m not a fan of this nonsense. We are not super typical, mainstream people, but Sidman treated us like weirdos. Unless you are interested in filling out a ton of standardized psychological surveys, and being strung along until the powers that be decide to let you have more information, please think about looking for a more compassionate place. Very disappointing experience and a waste of our time. Feel free to message me if you have questions.

Avoid Dr. Stephen Hopkins (Nashville, TN) if you're trans

despite the fact that I was seeing him for my severe social anxiety, the moment I mentioned I identify as transgender male, that became the focus of our sessions.

- his only advice regarding my social anxiety was to “get out more”, even though I am a minor and repeatedly tried to tell him I had no means of transportation.

- when I mentioned my disordered eating, he spent under five minutes on it and ended by telling me to “try and eat regularly.”  this was the extent of his advice on the matter.

- would frequently dismiss areas I actually had problems with to derail the conversation and bring it back to my gender identity.

- tried to convince me I wasn’t trans.  excused this by telling me that suicide rates and depression almost always go up after transition, and it wouldn’t be “morally right” for him, as a therapist, to encourage me in that direction.

- asked me “if someone believes they are a fish, should we allow them to have surgery obtain gills?" 

(keep in mind: this is a man who’d assured my parents beforehand that he was capable of working with trans people.)  

during the final appointment I had with him, I had an anxiety attack, froze up, and was unable to talk for about twenty minutes.

he told my parents I wasn’t really trans because I "process things in a very female way and am very emotional.”  this because I’d cried during a previous appointment while trying to defend my identity to him.

despite my having previously told him I am deeply uncomfortable being referred to by female-associated terms, he proceeded to call me a "beautiful  young woman,” and misgendered me multiple times in his next sentences until I burst into tears of anger.

after all this, he tried to get one of my parents - themself a closeted trans person - to begin weekly therapy sessions with him, as well as continue my sessions.  my parent talked to me later that day and we decided to not go back again.

Racism at Belle Rive Medicentre

At Belle Rive Medicentre, the African lady over the counter is horrible and racist. I went there today in the morning and she just called my name and walk of without telling me to follow her. Not only that earlier i informed her that I was there to visit the gynocolohist Dr. Fawzia El fakhrani but she sent some other family doctor without even informing me that the gynocolohist is not available. The family doctor by the name Gift is a horrible doctor. She gave me look while I was entering the room because of the veil I was wearing. She said it is fine to take multivitamin with syntheroid Medicine. Worse and horrible experience there.