I wanted to set up an appointment through an EAP program with Dr. Brooks, but Dr. Brooks mistakenly thought I was "double-insured" when I mentioned that my regular health insurance is BCBS and refused to treat me as a result of that. He claimed that he has issues between clients double-insured with Aetna and Cigna in the past, and told me that BCBS is Aetna (which is not true, they are completely separate companies). I understand that insurance is confusing, but an EAP program is completely different from private insurance and Dr. Brooks isn't even listed as in-network for BCBS so there would have been no conflict. Though I was unable to have a session with him, I think it is a huge red flag that: 1. Dr. Brooks refused to listen to or believe a client trying to explain their own insurance plan. 2. Acted in this way while not understanding even which insurances were within his network. read more

Dr. Brooks is great. I was referred to him by my UCSB through my insurance. He is very, very attentive and observant, intuitive, and clearly really smart. I went for an ADHD assesment, which he took a great deal of time to do, because he did a ton of interesting tests. And came out of it with a better knowledge of my psychological state, aswell as information about my body language and how I express myself that after 23 years of life I and Noone I associate with have noticed. I plan to see him again for psychotherapy when I am on a break from school and have more time. Would greatly recommend him to anyone else. At the very worst I could say he is a bit short, and that if you see him don't have hurt feelings if he cuts you off if you are repetitive. But, we were working on a short time line and I tend to ramble, which he kept under control. Not really a complaint, but something to be aware of, it may have been specific with me though due to how I behave. All around he was great, his office was great, he got back to me very promptly and worked very hard to find times around both of our busy schedules to meet. I did not end up being assessed with ADHD but a similar diagnosis. Again, I would very highly recommend him, he's awesome. read more

This man should not have a license. We had a horrible experience with him from start to finish. He was unprofessional and rude. He asked numerous questions, but wasn't patient enough to hear our answers. We dreaded going back to him (my son refused, in fact), but I had to in order to get the report we'd paid for. His report was riddled with things that weren't even about our child! When we insisted he change the report to accurately reflect our child (and not someone else's, as he was obviously confused), he finally begrudgingly did so - to some extent, but not completely. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT GO to see Ron Brooks. read more

I know that this may be a strange business to review, but I know that there are people out there like me who need someone else's personal experience in order to make a decision. I had a strong feeling that I had ADD. It was starting to get in the way of my life because people were constantly getting angry that I was leaving tasks unfinished and I honestly had no explanation as to why I never finished the task except that I forgot about it and moved onto something else. I knew something had to be done, but I also had this doubt that maybe I just lacked self control and I was really lazy. I didn't want to depend on medicine to make me into a productive person, no matter how enticing it sounded. I was told by many that people failed tests on purpose in order to get prescribed adderall and I wanted to have a test that would truly diagnose me. Dr. Brooks was amazing. He never made me feel stupid or worthless. He simply asked me questions about my life and then gave me a series of tests that were all different. It took about 3 different appointments to finish all of the tests and in the end, I was right except not. I found out from Dr. Brooks that I had ADHD. If you're looking into getting tested, come here. read more

Dr Brooks has been wonderful in supporting my son. He is extremely attentive and has helped us a bunch. I wasn't there for Angela B's experience but I could not see him doing that. He is extremely attentive and I can see how that could be misconstrued.. My wife is absolutely beautiful and I didn't notice anything strange, and I always catch people staring at her... Our experience has been very positive with him. read more

Dr Brooks was referred to us by the Hope school district to help us figure out why our son was struggling profoundly in school. At the time we had done quite a bit to help him ( tutors, various programs) and nothing seemed to help. Brooks found our son to have a few"slight"issues but assured us "your son will attend college and will be fine". During the time Brooks was assessing him we were trying to put more support into place within the school district. Brooks told us firmly that this was not needed. We trusted him but after 1-1.5 years our son failed even more and was now behind more than 2 years in some subjects. In desperation we hired an educational therapist who recommended that we take our son to LA to be tested by a renowned educational Doctor who discovered how profoundly devastating our sons learning issues were. By this time our son had fallen into deep depression and had given up. This is a long and painful story, but the bottom line is we discovered through this journey that Dr Brooks was in the pocket of the district and therefor would not suggest any treatments that would require services outside of what is offered in the school district. We eventually learned our sons issues were catastrophic and he needed massive intervention which should have started in early grade school. After hiring an attorney who then forced the district to provide what they should have years earlier I ran into Dr Brooks in a public place. He approached me and proceeded to tell me off because we stood up for our child and did what was needed to get him the help he so deserved. Dr Brooks is known within the special ed community for what I am speaking of. If your child has significant issues beware of this man. I wish I could tell you that our son went on to college...this is not what happened. It's been a very sad story for our son and it did not have to be this way. Shame on you Dr B read more

This guy creeped me out. I am a semi attractive lady who was having anxiety issues. I could have been helped better by sponge bob. At least I wouldn't catch sponge bob staring at my private parts. You are better off seeing anyone else on the central coast. read more