Im so surprised by the other reviews I've seen on Dr Martin. I have had nothing but a great…read moreexperience with her. I enjoy the fact that she talks to me like a real person rather than keeping an awkward "professional" demeanor. She knows the names of my family members and the relationships I have with each one of them. I have never felt judged or looked down on. Quite the opposite really. I think what I like the most is her ability to call me on my BS. This is recovery. This is hard. There are times that I am my own enemy and the root of the stress I am going through. She will tell me that, and show me a different way of thinking. A way out. She knows what kind of work I do and takes the time to ask me about different aspects going on that affect my industry. I have never been asked a weird list of questions off a list. We cover the DEA questions required to be asked by prescribers but that is not that main meat of our conversations. I have never felt rushed out. There have been times I needed more time due to something really hard I was going through and she sits right there with me while I cry and carry on and deal with the thoughts while she offers me guidance. There are also times that I am not in a chatty mood and everything for the most part is going fine. Those visits may be a little shorter. Its never just 3 mins and rushed out though. If you are looking for a yes person, she is NOT that person. Truth is if you are there for the same reason I am, we dont need another yes person in our lives. If you are looking for a dealer in a white coat. She isn't that either. She has always created an environment that I can be open and honest. Where if I fail I know as long as I am being HONEST with her she will be there with me. I am truly sorry for anyone that had a bad experience with her. I am very thankful I found her and that I still have her to help me keep fighting the war within myself. I for sure recommend her to anyone seeking help. The office personell has changed in my time going there. There was a bad egg at one time. She is long gone. The office is headed up by Nina. Again another person that has taken the time to know me, knows my children's names, my preferences on days and times, that if I come in looking a certain way that I am dealing with something different. I can not say that about most places. Can you?

I don't want to go into detail for privacy reasons, but she took $350 from me and then decided that…read moreI was too much of a "liability". She kicked me out of her office after taking my money, with absolutely no help. She was heartless at one of the most vulnerable moments of my life. Avoid her at all cost!

My personal experience with the inpatient program was a complete waste of time. I was admitted on…read morea Thursday night, and Friday we spent the day with a mental health tech who, while very kind, didn't seem that helpful. I was there to seriously concentrate on making my life better and learning all I could, but they told us that they usually don't do anything on weekends! I was told the techs are supposed to do programming with us no matter what, but on both days the woman and then a man that were accompanying us said either "I don't do programming, so we're just going to hang out today" and "Well we can just consider this our session today" after sitting around talking. The environment truly made me feel like I was in jail, having to get the bathroom unlocked to go pee, I was on my period and I had to use a cup and throw away my tampons in the front office every time, they kept all of our hygiene items locked up. The absolutely worst part was the rooms. If you look at their webpage, they show you a great picture of a room with 2 beds, nice blankets, decorations, towels, etc. Well, I don't know which unit has that but it certainly wasn't the adult unit. We had about a 4 inch foam pad on a hard table, a non-fitted sheet on top, plastic pillows, and those hospital blankets. There wasn't anything in the room except the beds and a set of shelves for each patient. In the unit it was ALWAYS freezing, I walked around with the blanket off of my bed because you couldn't sit in the common area without being cold. Not only that, but on my second night there I asked for another blanket (I already had two, still cold!) and the guy told me he couldn't give me one. I thought he was kidding! He said we're only supposed to have one, but he would overlook that I had two. By the end of my stay, there were literally four of those blankets on my bed. Besides the living arrangements, most of the time there were only four people in the whole unit, and only one of them could speak! And there's not much of a group discussion when the other guy really loves to disagree with every single thing the tech or counselor would say. The techs were mostly very kind, but one lady said she had never been in that unit, another guy said he rarely is there. It's like they are just babysitters for the adults, when they are supposed to lead groups to teach us coping skills and such. Day 2 I asked the doctor to go home, because it felt really useless and that I couldn't sleep and all the groups sucked. He asked me to stay until the next day so they could get me started on meds. I said fine, because I WANT to get myself fixed up. He started a new medication, and the next day I said OK now can I go home? And he said no, that he couldn't write me a prescription unless I stayed until Monday. He also said that he would try to get me into a more one-on-one setting with the therapist. I did see her, and she was great, but I only got to see her once. I checked myself into this hospital after combing through the website and deciding it was time to take time off of work and get myself taken care of. However, this seems to be a pseudo-jail for violent people, because most of the patients were forced to check in there. My experience was a huge waste of time and money. The ONLY good things I got out of it were 1. a prescription for new meds and 2. the knowledge that it could always get worse--like having to live at that place.

I gave this place one star because I couldn't give it any lower of a rating. The building is…read morebeautiful and very clean. However, the staff is awful. They lost a brand new outfit that I purchased for my loved one. They never made any effort to find it or reimburse me for it. Whenever I would call to check on him, they would never give me any information on how he was doing. He came out worse than he was when he went in. The staff acts like they really don't care about the patients. This facilitate gives mental health hospitals, a bad name.