Watch Out for this one! This doctor took my son on as a patient. He had one session with her and…read moreshe dropped him. She billed me (I was paying for this) $740. She wouldn't return my calls so I wrote her to discuss this mistake or inappropriate billing. I paid for one session at her normal rate. She then turned me over to a lawyer for collection for the remaining $440.

I saw Dr. Aytes during one instance of inpatient treatment and once during outpatient, both around…read morewhen I was 15. He was often disrespectful and uncaring. Out of all the psychiatric care I received during my youth he stands out as the worst provider of all. I am now 25 and have met many other people who received care from him with shockingly similar stories. It seems he's very keen on sending adolescents to residential treatment centers before exploring other options, if you aren't aware these kinds of treatment centers are rife with abuse and rarely yield positive results. He also loves to diagnose adolescents with ODD as a way to further write off any disagreements they might have with him and convince their guardians that they should have no say in their own care. The only reason I thought to look him up all these years later is someone told me he lost his medical license and I was hoping that was true.