I am healing from the PTSD that I got after bringing our child here. Leslie Blevins said she was 100% certain of her diagnosis and recommended a year of weekly therapy to deal with non-existent problems. She was wrong about the diagnosis. She relied on outlier, skewed data without exploring an understanding of how there could be such big differences across environments. We've since discovered problems with the other environment, and our perspective of our child was validated by other third parties.
Leslie Blevins was truly cruel and insensitive, but with a smile and a nice voice. She simply didn't "get" our child and she didn't take the time to do so. She doesn't understand child development and pathologized normal child behavior. After other professionals who know our child read her evaluation, they responded that it felt like it was about a completely different child. I think at the core, it's that Blevins lacks the experience and a wider, broader view of child development. She also lacks caution, especially when it comes to applying measurement tools that were developed, validated, and normed during pre-pandemic period to children growing up during a pandemic. It may be that she's somewhat incentivized to see things with the glass half empty because that means you have to pay her for costly out of network services in order to fix the non-existent problems. read more