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RECOMMENDS
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY HAS A GREAT SLIDING SCALE COUNSELING CENTER.
MARINA DEL REY
http://www.antiochla.edu/aucc_home.shtml
THE MAPLE CENTER - proves that Beverly Hills therapy ain't all that it's
cracked up to be!
This
is a terrible therapy center that anyone with half their senses should avoid
like the plague. Inexperienced interns are the "Therapists" at this place and
some of them are actually stalkers. God forbid you tell them you have been
bickering with your spouse! Watch out! They will actually threaten
to call Child Protective Services on you! And I didn't say fighting I said
bickering. God knows Child Protective Services have better things to do with
their time responding to real calls, but the Maple Center has a reputation of
turning mole hills into mountains.
Here
was my experience:
As I
signed up here to investigate their abilities and services I soon discovered
myself targeted by one of their whacked out interns named Deborah who runs the
Mindful Parenting Group over there. Yes, the entire place is run by these inept
interns and I interviewed a few of them so this isn't just one incident.
This
one therapist would call me 3 times a day to "talk." She was the therapist I
couldn't get off the phone. I felt like I was on an episode of Seinfeld. Another
therapist wouldn't hear of it when i told her I wouldn't be back and had opted
to see someone else somewhere else. After an hour of telling her I would
not be returning the woman actually stood up, looked at me and said, "So I will
see you next week?" If I wasn't nuts when I walked in there, I was
certainly feeling like I was on an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I thought
for sure there must be a hidden camera crew somewhere and it was a joke. Ali G
never jumped out at me.
And
as far as trying to schedule an appointment with another one of their super
interns - Well, she changed my appointment 16 times in 3 weeks. When I reported
her to her "Superior", her superior left me a condescending message that she was
sorry I felt this way and had these "feelings" and that "Deborah" is the best
therapist the center has to offer. If this be the case then buyers beware.
I
will say that the concept the center has about "Mindful Parenting" that
basically tells the parents to sit on the floor and shut up and let the baby do
the talking is a very good idea. The point is to let the baby initiate all
the play and to not make huge jesters of approval, but to just kick back and be
small. This strengthens the baby's skill in initiation and will carry over to
all other areas of their lives later on.
Plus, if we shut up long enough and pay attention it becomes easier to see if
your baby has an attention problem or is gifted in some areas. In short,
save your time and money with the nutty therapists over there who could use a
little therapy themselves and just sit on the floor, shut up and listen. You can
learn a lot about your baby, yourself and the rest of the world just by looking
and listening. And ain't that the truth????
Sorry Maple Center you get 4 babies crying! Get it together already and get
yourselves some help.
I can't recommend the
www.goldenbridgeyoga.com enough.
Feel free to call them anytime for
almost anything and they will be very helpful.
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