I think Patrick is mostly interested in leasing his space to other therapists. In the seven or eight sessions we spent with Patrick there was zero response from him. He recommended a commonly referenced text and even broke out one of the worksheets from the text.
But Patrick never made our appointments on time; not once. His office is upstairs and is locked. So when Patrick sashays on in 20-minutes late, you've been waiting in his parking lot for those 20-plus minutes. Then he walks in with you and opens up the office. Eventually you sit down and start to talk, and you're outta there before the hour is up.
Our last meeting, I had to focus our discussion which was at least moving the ball forward some. Catharsis, which was good -- but not through any effort on Patrick's part. Nonetheless, after 8 sessions, finally progress.
You know what? After arriving in his signature-late fashion for that session, at the end of the session he had left the building (locked up, the whole kit-and-kaboodle) before I could even get in my car in the parking lot. No notes to quickly scribble, nothing. He was out of his office before I was, and on such a cathartic appointment; that was reasonably odd.
Finally, taking the hint we arrived 15 minutes late for our unplanned-final session. No Patrick. We contact him and he gave us the ol' "traffic by the airport" thing. This community doesn't have traffic problems like that. And wouldn't you know it, we didn't.
We fired him on the spot. For a therapist, this is astounding. We'll be filing a complaint.
I'm a little worried about billing seeing from other commenters. If it comes to that, we'll defend our insurance company from his billings.
Evidently he is only interested in leasing his office space (that he will tell you he owns) to other therapists. read more