I have a rare cancer that required a quad removal and femoral nerve damage. I have ptsd from domestics violence, childhood physical and sexual abuse. I'm on the autism spectrum. I was matched with a new therapist when mine quit after 3 weeks. I was very open about my struggles and was looking for a qualified therapist to stay with me throughout my recovery journey. After 30 minutes with Jackie from the White Fish Bay location who is now temporarily at the Farwell location. It was obvious it wasn't a good fit. She was not qualified to take on a ptsd, autistic patient repeatedly exclaiming she didn't know what to do with me and was underprepared. Being left vulnerable with a therapist who isn't exuding enough confidence to make her patient feel confident I begin to have a panic attack. While waiting for my ride the front desk woman Crystal, was packing up for the day and her and Jackie asked me if they could help me and gave me tissues. No one knew how to take control of the situation and felt helpless because I seemed helpless. I was deemed too difficult, they tried all they could. They left me crying in the front while other patients continued to arrive and they went into the back and were giggling and chatting. My panic attack became severe and I stepped outside. Crystal left for the day and said to me while I was crying outside "it's probably too cold for you out here you should go back inside." This team felt they did all they could and cared enough. I should have been kindly escorted to a safe place away from other patients until my ride arrived. I feel this team felt if I didn't ask for it there was nothing more they could do. Instead of understanding how debilitating a full blown panic attack is. Manager Amy Goebel called me to discuss what happened with Jackie about 20 minutes after it happened, I was still coming down and anxious. I hadn't had time to process what happened and rattled off in detail what happened step by step. When I was done, Amy said to me "no offense, at this point I feel I don't know how to please you and can't help you." After 30 minutes with my new therapist and 1 panic attack later. I have been deemed too difficult to deal with. Amy said to me she felt I was looking for a therapist that would "anticipate my needs." Which is a stigma towards mental health. While I was talking to her she was laughing at me, when I asked her why she was laughing she said she wasn't laughing. When I confronted her later if she could recognize she had indeed laughed, she said she did but it wasn't at me it was because I make her uncomfortable. It was only after I asked to speak to her manager that she begged me to give her a second chance. Two days later I called to follow up about Amy to her manager and the number she provided me went no where. When I reached out to my old clinic to speak to my old therapist and I reached out to the whitefish bay clinic to speak to their manager, I received a text from Amy saying "please stop calling everywhere, please stop." When I spoke to manager Farley from the whitefish bay location, she munched her lunch in my ear while she listened to my story, through my anguish she loudly ate her food in the phone and said she would take what I had to say into consideration and felt Jackie was qualified enough but underprepared. She said Jackie has worked with ptsd patients in the past but was unsure if she had worked with autism patients before. My anxiety and autism has made this team uncomfortable and frankly I'm baffled at how not just unprepared and low confidence Jackie was, but the ignorance of this entire team towards mental health and compassion. Since the event they have treated me like a problematic unruly patient. Anyone who struggles with post traumatic stress disorder or is on the autism spectrum or suffering from something outside of the basic bumps and bruises, should steer clear of any ATI as they are the super cuts of physical therapy. read more