this place is horrible..not only do they have some bad counselors here, but if you have to deal with one and write a review online about it, they will force you to take the review down in order to still keep going here for counseling!! it's HORRIBLE. Im writing this at the request of several people I know who told me that i NEED to write this after how I got treated here. Now I think their staff in general is nice, and they usually got appointments in etc. however, i went to see a counselor here-- christine braun. I went to these counselors specifically because in their profiles they write that they have a passion to help those who are in need of hope and who have dealt with abuse etc. I went to the counselor several times, and the last session I went to caused me to stop going. the counselor said to me kind of non-chalantly "well I think the abuse you say is just your perception" or it' sjust your perception that it's abuse. Yikes!! to say that to an ABUSE VICTIM is really really major--crucial because as a victim, you are already in doubt of yourself, your own feelings etc...you need VALIDATION from a rational person that what you've endured has been bad, and a random counselor basically saying "oh its just your perception" is very dangerous and cruel.
Of course there was no back up or reason as to why she said that...she just SAID it out of the blue to almost just put it in my head and she said some other things as well that are critical type things to say to any victim. she almsot seemed to be trying to put certain things in my head as to make me doubt myself... it was very mean to do of course. you go to a counselor to get help, advice, gain strength find solutions to dealing with issues, or past things you have been through. you definitely DONT go to a counselor to have the person put little ideas in your head that are not only untrue but abusive in itself and some form of gaslighting in some way. I left the last session completely floored, doubtful of myself, my own emotions, feelings everything...I went to that session feeling ok and left a wreck, confused, and almost had to self help myself to ensure myself, that what the counselor that was untrue. it's almsot like going to a counselor seeking help for beating or rape and the counselor saying "well i think that's just your perception"...again YIKES...that's what the ABUSERS say to a victim to keep them under control, brainwash them, mess with their head and gaslight them, and that's what christine braun did to me. so of course naturally....i didn't go back for my own sake and health etc....I also came on yelp to write a review--not about the counseling center but my experience with the counselor because i was really distraught and upset with the experience.
so i decided to try another counselor there....and they were nice to let me go to antoher one. I wont name the counselor since there is no reason to. I went to the counselor twice, and the second time I went AFTER my session the counselor said Oh i didnt know you had been here before and saw a counselor before. I said oh yes i did but it didnt work out. She said...what happened? i didn't want to go through the LONG hellish experience i went through because I had just been through a session and felt i had made some progress somewhere. I said...well it just didnt work out i guess... then this counselor said "oh by the way, (or something to that extent)..did you write a Review online about the last counselor you saw"?
I said...well yes? she said....well basically ive been told by my boss that in order to keep coming here you have to take that review down." again what??? i mean are you serious?? rather than try to see....why i wrote that review...how they could improve on counseling...how I felt or how it made me feel, what compelled me to write that review, or how they could do something about the situation...i was literally COERCED or semi bullied into taking the review down...in order to KEEP going back for counseling with the other counselor. Of course this is horrendous... how can you as a counseling center do that to a PATIENT/client coming in for therapy... who feels they were potentially mistreated by a counselor, or feels a counselor did such a bad job that they had to write a review about it? it's just terrible....im not surprised because you find a lot of that in the city of orlando....there are really awful counselors here and people who not only don't care, don't do their jobs right, but who will downright mistreat people who have been through abuse, and not help them out but rather, just be rude to them or even take advantage in some way. in this case....any professional center would have tried to find out what they could do to make the situation better, rather than semi threaten a client saying in order to keep coming back for counseling they have to take a review down.
Im not saying to stay away from this place but i guess beware because who knows really...what your experie read more
