This psychologist has done damages to my family. My ex chosed Dr. Blanco because of her PHD degree. We had marriage counselling with her and she is the reason that we broke up. I called and sent her email on a weekend sobbing before going out of town to desperately ask for an appoinment for us, but never got a response from her. While I was out of town she did counsel my ex without my awareness. Without involve me in the counseling sessions, she congratulated him on his "revelation" without me which is wrong because marriage is a team effort (Anything involving divorce is not a decision to be made solely by one party without first consulting the other to try to work on it. ). She even advised him get rid of me out of the house asap before I came back. My ex sent me an email explaining why he did what he did, mentioning that he only did this by following Dr. Blanco's advise. After our divorce, she was the one who counselled my daughter who was 13 years at the time, until I found out that she had been telling my daughter that I was a liar. A PHD psychologist that tells a child that her mother is a liar, think about that!!!. My daughter told me that Dr. Blanco always pried her into my stories to influence her not to believe what I said. I started my suspicion after a few sessions when my daughter started to say "No I dont believe you, I believe Daddy" or "No, you are wrong, ask Daddy". When it was my turn to take my daughter to see Dr. Blanco, she never reported to me how my daughter was doing after the session. She instead reported how my daughter was doing only to her father who then asked me to communicate with the psychologist. When I called and asked Dr. Blanco how my daughter was doing and why she didn't report to me after the session (the only reason why I was there), she told me to send her an email - the way of communications that she has emphasized before that she would not preferred. She never listenned to what I had to say and always cutting me off. Everything I said was wrong to her and she never let me finish my story, including the $25 copay that I mentioned we had been paying her by mistakes ( instead of $15). The reason I knew because I was seeing another psychologist at the same time (realizing that I didnot get much help from her counselling) under the same insurance and I only paid $15 copay. Dr. Blanco told me "It has always been $25" and never paid us back the money she owes....a righteous doctor would have a conscience. She automatically blamed me that my behaviour dragged down my daughter because my ex told her and she believed it. Again, this tells me that she is BIAS, which is not right and unethics as a psychologist. She basically ignored me as a mother and her counselling had alieniated my daughter from her mother. How awful!!!
My daughter no longer saw Dr. Blanco after the incident that I was told that I was a liar. My daughter and I have seen another psychologist in down town Tampa, her name is Barbara Dorn, to help us corrrect the situation. I was torn out by my marriage and had to fix the damaged relationship with my daughter caused by the Dr. Blanco, a 'PHD' psychologist. What an irony!!! My daughter is almost sixteen, she is not stupid and has seen that I am a good mother. She has realized that what she has been told by Dr. Blanco was not true (when she was 13, she was easily influenced by a smart-mouth psychologist). She said she loved me and her life would be horrible without me. Thanks to Barbara Dorn, our mother-daughter relationship has been restored.
This is what we called mal-practice. Every professional claims that they are the best. The truth is that not all of them are, so do your homework. I had to pay a big prize - My marriage and my relationship with my daughter. This is a real SHAME. read more
