I would have chose zero stars if that was an option. The counselors were wonderful but at the end of my 75 hours the Dr. said I owed 277.50 for one on one sessions that I was led to believe was included with my 75 initial hours. That's a lot of money to surprise someone with since she was paid nearly $1800 in full. I would have never opted to any form of treatment that included paying one more cent than I had to and on top of that she claims we had an entire conversation about these sessions that never took place which leads me to believe she is also somewhat unstable. I've only encountered the lady 3-4 times max when she filled in for group when no one else was available. I've never had a single appointment with her or a conversation one on one with her during my entire 75 hours. I'd highly recommend NOT using pleasant counseling. read more

We mistakenly chose Pleasant Counseling for our custody evaluation. Ms. Pleasant stated she was experienced and educated in parental alienation. We chose to move forward without checking her educational background and experience on this topic. We submitted substantial information to her regarding the alienation of my stepson. Her report took 5 months to complete which allowed the complete alienation to take place. Her report was very biased and praised the alienating parent and suggested full custody be given to the children's mother. She described the mother's behavior and text threats to her children as a "learning moment." She described the mother's permissive parenting style toward excessive cursing and name calling as "allowing the children to freely express themselves." The same material we gave Dr Pleasant was also given to an expert in the field to review. He responded resoundingly that this was a severe case of alienation. Dr Pleasant completely misread this case due to her lack of education in this area. We were forced to settle this case without going to court due to the extreme cost of this custody battle for over a year. If Dr Pleasant would have performed an evaluation based on the facts presented to her instead of taking the word of a very alienated teen, we would have had the support of a custody evaluation going forward. Dr Pleasant also counseled the teen after her report was complete and communicated with the child per text and phone calls. We were told this is unethical conduct of a custody evaluator. The child had a counselor assigned to him in this case already and her interference affected the child's opinion of the existing counselor. Following this, the mother and child arrived to the next counseling session and announced they refused to return. My husband has not seen his son in 5 months due to non adherence to the recent custody agreement. The children and their mother alleged "physical force and aggressive behavior." Dr Pleasant did not find any of the allegations to be founded and referred to my husband as a good parent. She then recommended my husband's custody be decreased from 50/50 to 4 days a month. Parental alienation is mental abuse and only evaluators with education and expertise should accept a case that can have such dire consequences for the children. read more