He was about an hour late for our first appointment. Which if you have a child with a neurodivergency, this is not small. Every appointment after, was the same wait time. At the end of the first appointment he commented on my "11's." Mind you, I was there for my son. He said my wrinkles are a give away for depression and I need to see him. When my son started having serious side effects from the medication, I could not get ahold of him after multiple calls. I cancelled all future appointments and will not return. read more

Believe the negative reviews on here. I was a patient of Dr. Magulac for a long time. I did find him to be a good listener and caring at first, but any time I raised any sort of feeling about anything, he just kept prescribing new addtl meds. Then, when I needed a refill, he couldn't be reached. These were powerful Rxs and wasn't great to have to stop cold for a week until he called something in. This happened SEVERAL times. He was always odd and said unusual things, but when he told me he had pleasured his wife before coming to work that morning, it shocked me into reevaluating. I found a new dr who switched me to new Rx and reduced the # of them. I am angry I wasted so much time seeing him. And yes, he was always late. read more

For the first appointment for our son, we had to wait an additional 45 minutes. We were about to leave when he finally saw us. His tone was quite condescending throughout. Some examples were: trying to add wrong input to my son's non-related medical issue, making comments about his weight, and calling him a "big galoot". For someone seeking mental help, I would assume those aren't very helpful comments. I would not recommend him. If you just need a prescription, he's probably fine if you can deal with the condescending tone and comments. read more

I was a patient of Dr. Magulac's for 8+ years. During that time I was led to believe his psychiatric care was "normal." I could go on and on about his odd tactics; including his acute interest in my intimate life, his need to share his own traumas, and the 45+ minute wait times, but I digress. The doctor/patient dynamic completely changed when I disclosed that I was in a serious relationship. He immediately began speaking disparagingly about my partner. The most traumatic instance was when he told me I should "feed him to the wolves" as a result of my partner's physical disability. Please heed my warning, Dr. Magulac is NOT a psychiatrist but an a-hole with a prescription pad. read more

I have been seeing Dr Magulac for a decade or more & he is the best psychiatrist I have known (& I work in the field). He treats me professionally & is very kind. He gets me & my diagnosis / symptoms & has always been great at listening & giving compassionate insight. He manages my meds well & cares about my life, how I am taking care of myself & my stressors. So glad my therapist recommended him all those years ago. read more

Dr Magulac is one of the most patient doctors I have ever met. Unlike some other doctors, he does not rush through his consults and spends as much time as he feels is needed with his patients. He is also easily reachable if we need to call him with questions or anything pertaining to our care. He was on the phone for a long time with me trying to sort through our prescription that needed a pre-authorization. Other doctors would not have been so kind. We really appreciate Dr Magulac. read more

Dr Magulac has been my Doctor for be 8 years. You will not find a more caring advocate for your health. Dr Magulac has always gone out of his way to make sure I was ok and got what I need. My daughter just commented, how wonderful it is that I have a doctor who is so caring , a great advocate, and thoughtful even in a holiday weekend. She went on to say it is very hard to find care like that. read more

We were very disappointed. We drove 50min to meet him. We waited over 15min and no one could tell us in the office where he was. He was 20min late which is more than 1/3 of the appointment time. He did not call to say he would be late. I guess he expect his patients to understand and respect his time but he is not welling to do the same for his patients. Needless to say....we are going somewhere else. read more

Dr Magulac is the most unprofessional, arrogant, unempathetic, scary, and transphobic medical professional I've come across. I am shocked that he bills himself as a child psychiatrist. I made the extreme mistake of bringing my highly-sensitive, anxious, straight-A, well-adjusted 15 year old to see him because I wanted a psychiatrist to manage his anxiety medication that our pediatrician prescribed. Within 30 minutes of meeting my child and having him fill out some one-sided sheets of paper (ie circle if you ever want to stay in bed some mornings), he told my child that he was bipolar, schizophrenic, a major-depressive, and had autism. All while using trans-phobic language and making comments completely inappropriate to make in front of a minor (ie "yes, I bet you want to kill yourself sometimes, is this true?" Diagnosing a child with 4 major disorders within 30 minutes based on having him circle pictures on handouts is something out of the dark ages. He then told us to stop taking the anxiety medication that was working to curb my son's anxiety and told us to start giving him a very strong anti-psychotic. My child sobbed uncontrollably in the car following the appointment for almost an hour and was completely inconsolable. I'm writing this review in the hopes that if you are considering bringing your child to see this man that you reconsider and choose another psychiatrist. Anyone else! Please spare your child the trauma of any type of encounter with Dr. Magulac. read more

First off, he was pretty ok when we first started talking. He asked questions that every other doctor in the mental health field that we have came across asked. Shortly before this apt I had my daughter evaluated(3rd one since she was 5 that is outside of school). I am convinced he didnt look over the results at all. He didnt even have them in his file when we came into his office because he had to leave to get it. When asked about my daughters history of meds I explained she had previously taken abilify and that it made her have hallucinations. After mentioning this he told me that sometimes the benefits out way the risks. He then proceeded to ask my thirteen year old if she hears people knock on the walls or if she sees people outside her window sometimes. We live in a duplex thats a housing edition so yes everyone hears knocking on the walls and just a few days before this apt my daughter saw the neighbors outside drinking and hanging out across the street so of course she said yes to both questions(the way he asked her was like he was probing her to show she hallucinates when she is not on the meds but she doesnt). When we came across talking about the neurofeedback she did and it tremendously helped her, he asked me several questions about it. After talking about her history, he very much seemed convinced that she needed the abilify. He never offered to talk about any other medications. He did say to me that I would not be satisfied with anything except Neurofeedback and questioned what I was doing there. I then told him that I wanted to look into lamictal. He gave me the run down of it, to which was hard to keep up and I wasnt sure if he was agreeing that it might be beneficial for her or not. He did say several times that "we can try that if thats what you want." Even after that though he seemed to be pushing the abilify. Hinting around with little things that that is what might work best. I then mentioned that I would like to talk with my husband and we would make a decision about it. His response was something along the lines of "well you havent mentioned much about him until now so its kinda funny. You can go ahead and give him a call now." This surprised me because if I am to have a conversation about my childs well being it will not be on the phone in front of the doctor. Also my husband was out of town and working in that moment so I could not just call him. When I mentioned that to him his response was "oh thats convenient." By this time I was pretty angry and ready to leave not just because of all of these things but also because he rudely interrupted me so many times. So I then mentioned to him that at this time it would be best to find treatment for my daughter somewhere else and he agreed but threw in a comment that his office was not a 40 session office(referring to the neurofeedback) and again mentioning that I would not be satisfied with anything less than the neurofeedback. Somewhere in the end he asked me a question and I went to answer it and he interrupted me again and I then stopped him and said "thats another reason, because you have interrupted me like 8 times." His response was "Its my job. I have over 400 patients." There was some other things but google only lets you have so many characters in their reviews. I will also be filing a grievance with Tricare. read more

I saw Dr. Magulac when I was 15 years old, after struggling to manage my major depressive disorder for the previous 2 years. During the second, and last, session I had with him, I opened up about more of my intense thoughts and feelings, with my mom in the room as well. Dr. Magulac replied, "don't give me that sht", and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him. my mom and i watched through the window as he walked to the other side of the building. after about 7 minutes of sitting in the office in silence, we got up to leave. we ran into him in the hallway, and his excuse was that "the session seemed over." We filed a complaint immediately. A few days later, i get a voicemail on my phone from him. I'm assuming it was meant for whoever was looking into the complaint, because he denied any fault. sounded like he had been drinking too. hope this is all the info you need to make an informed decision about your new psychiatrist read more

I have never left a review on yelp before but my personal experience with Dr. Magulac was one of the worst things I have ever been through, and I would like to hopefully help anyone who is struggling with mental health and considering him as their provider. I'm 26 years old and moved to San Diego a little bit ago and was suffering from anxiety and depression. Magulac was recommended to me through a family friend. I made an appointment and noticed right away it was very hard to get ahold of him and he would randomly cancel / reschedule appointments last minute. There were also times where I actually drove 45 minutes to his office because I was scheduled to meet with him and was told by the receptionist he wasn't there and had taken the day off. It was very frustrating, especially because I was in such a bad mental state and overwhelmed and just needed someone to offer any sort of help. *I'd also like to note that I was paying out of pocket for these appointments because he didn't take my insurance, which was very expensive and further added to the reason why I did not want to miss them.* On the occasions where I did actually get to sit down with him, it was clear he was very arrogant and acted sort of irritated whenever I would ask questions. I didn't want to just take random medications, I wanted to be informed on how they could effect me. He always answered very condescendingly and rambled on and on speaking very scientifically and in medical terms which were hard for me to understand a lot of the time. After around 5 months and maybe 3 or 4 medications later (which had not worked for me), he prescribed me Latuda. I took 60mg as he said to do. After about a month of this I knew something wasn't right. My skin started to crawl and it was impossible to sleep. I was having panic attacks on a day to day basis. It was so awful and I didn't know what to do or how to safely stop the medication. I tried over and over to get ahold of him. Took about 2 weeks until he finally called me over the phone. I explained in tears what was happening to me and that I didn't feel like myself and how miserable I had been. He then proceeded to YELL AT ME over the phone, saying I was going against his profession by questioning the medication he had prescribed to me. It was very clear that he had zero empathy for how I, his patient, was feeling and was more focused on his ego. At that point I was so defeated and exhausted, I tried very calmly to ask him to prescribe me something to at least help me sleep. He agreed and gave me Ambien, but nothing was done about the Latuda and no further help was offered. I ended up having to quit my job and put my life on hold and fly home to my mom's and find a completely different psychiatrist to help me get off the medication Magulac had put me on. It was a very traumatic experience for me, which thankfully I was able to overcome. I to this day have not heard anything further from him, other than from his billing office to collect whatever I owe him from our last "phone appointment" where I got yelled at. Do not seek help from this person. He is definition of a narcissist and so extremely unprofessional with how he communicates to his patients and with how he runs his practice. I really hope this review is helpful and saves anyone from going through what I went through. read more

Dr. Magulac is simply amazing. I was skittish at first to trust a new psychiatrist for my autistic daughter (his name was given to me as an in-network provider), but I couldn't be more impressed. He is approachable, attentive, and thorough. My daughter is doing so well under his care, and I'm so grateful that we found him! By the way, my daughter's primary care physician and my pharmacist both sang his praises to me, so that made me feel even better about working with him. read more

The first day I met Dr. Magulac was the first time I sobbed during and after the appointment. It was not the last. I have a notes app list of all the offensive things he's said to me. Some examples are "what is keeping you from seeing this? you're blowing it" and "you are not a success story". He's had to take breaks from my session because he was so mad at me while I was crying... this anger was because of MY insomnia. What person gets that mad about someone else's medical issues? He put me on the max amount of Abilify and because of that he called me "slow as molasses in Winter" when I showed side effects. I don't know if you know this sir, but trauma compounds, and the way he talked to me prying out intimate details of SA that was not AT ALL necessary for my care added to my trauma. I don't even talk to my therapist about that in such detail, but he kept asking super specific details, this is not meant to be a space for exposure therapy, and certainly not one with a provider who can properly administer that!! It genuinely makes me angry at how I was so invalidated for my SA and had to bring up a different one for him to be like "oh ok fine..." this is by far the worst bed side manner I have ever dealt with. I had him for a while because the lack of psychiatrists with open spots but I have a new one now and am definitely affirmed that Magulac's care is very abnormal. I don't hold any space in my heart for hate against providers I've ever had EXCEPT for this man. I escaped him once I went to the psychiatric facility, which he told me not to go to and I'd be fine. Trust that it has taken many many instances of poking the bear for me to be this angry. Would give -10 stars if given the option. Someone put him in a textbook for doctor burnout and make him retire read more

Wonderful kind Dr. Magulac is awesome and I highly recommend him. He helped my children and even me. He's very intelligent, warm, professional. read more

I was referred to Dr. Magulac by another psychiatrist who wasn't able to take on another patient. I was hesitant to start my 13 year old on anti-depressants, but we had already tried 12 weeks with a psychologist with no improvement. Dr. Magulac started my son on an anti-anxiety medication, and followed him closely to make sure there were no adverse reactions. About a year later, my son decided he wanted to stop taking the medication, and Dr. Magulac agreed to let him try by stepping down his dose by half. It didn't end up working well at that time, so we went back up to the full dose - and the doctor has been caring and supportive the whole way. I feel he truly has my son's best interests at heart. read more

My son saw Dr. Magulac maybe a handful of times when staying with his dad in California. I never personally met him since I live in Colorado but I received mixed reviews from his dad and stepmom about their feelings towards Dr. Magulac. Due to COVID-19 my son came back to Colorado and I have been trying to get the meds and dosages he changed my son to while treating him for over a month now with no luck. His doctor here has asked but I told him until he responds I am at a standstill. It seems he only responds to people when he feels like it, very unprofessional! Due to this behavior I would be reluctant to refer anyone to him. read more

We were searching for a psychiatrist for our pre-teen whose anxiety and depression was continuing to elevate with an added diagnosis of Autism. Our son is extremely guarded. He rarely opens up to people. My husband and I both went to the appointment as well. He was a little quirky which quickly drew my also quirky son in. Our son doesn't like to delve deep into anything and likes very cut and dry questions in which he can give cut and dry answers to. The doctor very much felt our son out and adapted to our son's way of communicating. All the sudden before our eyes our son really connected with him. The doctor was extremely friendly and informative. We left there with me basically in tears that finally someone understood what our son was going through and wanted to help him. It was just a fantastic experience. He got our son on a medication regimen that literally has been life changing for him. I cannot recommend him enough. read more

Dr. Magulac is a great doctor. He helped my daughter become more stable and I see that he truly cares for her overall well-being. He shows compassion and empathy and is a blessing for my family. I highly recommend him if you need a great psychiatrist that will listen to your concerns and issues. He has a great heart and truly cares for his patients. read more

We are not Yelpers, but our experience was so unfortunate with Dr. Mark Magulac's office that we had to write a review. Our son needed a new psychiatrist and we left a message two weeks ago and did not receive a returned call. After we followed up and tried to give his office "one more try" we explained that we had left a message and wanted to see if he was in a position to accept a new client. We were put on hold while the receptionist said she was going to see if we were on the list. After she returned to the line, we were told that our son was not on the list "for one of two reasons." She told us either (1) we had given a wrong number or (2) that Dr. Magulac didn't accept the particular type of insurance we had. We were rather taken back that a physician's office would actually choose not to call people back if they could not help them. The receptionist said "Yes, that is correct. Our call volume is just too high." We sought to clarify whether they don't call back if they are too busy, or if the business policy is simply not to call *anyone* back (essentially leaving people hanging.) The receptionist got really defensive, raised her voice and defended Dr. Magulac. I politely said to please forget that we had called and that we didn't want to do business with an office which would deliberately not phone people back. I conveyed to the receptionist that she was defensive and lacked empathy and she got really snooty with me and sassy. It is so unfortunate that people have to be this way. For the record, this was only our experience in phoning Dr. Magulac's office and not with Dr. Magulac personally. read more