0 (out of five stars)

I only saw her twice and I had already had enough of her.  She's the type of therapist who makes up her mind about you and doesn't listen if you don't agree.  But my main issue with her was me telling her how scared I was of getting a hysterectomy and all she did was make me feel stupid by retorting "Oh wow, if you think that's bad, my daughter is barely 30 and has to have one, too!  Isn't that horrible?!  She's so young!"  I just nodded because why on earth would I care about what her daughter's going through?  I was there for my anxiety issues, and how does hearing about someone I don't know going to help me?  Her JOB as a therapist is to help me, nobody is paying her to share crap about her daughter, which is wrong anyways, as that's nobody's business but her daughter's.  My mom shares my medical information with everyone, too, and she has NPD.  So what does that tell you?  So, I brought it up again later in my assessment, and she brought it right back to how sad it is that her daughter had to give up her uterus as age 30.  Was she trying to make me feel like I shouldn't be upset about it because I am almost 50 and only people who are of childbearing years should feel bad?  

I TOLD her I have severe anxiety.  And going under surgery was horribly scary for me.  And instead of being a therapist and having empathy, she just equated it to her daughter instead, all the while being dismissive of my own anxiety.  

Instead of listening to me or having any empathy for me, she just rattled on and on about this training she and her coworkers just went to.  And with that, she claimed I was a "perfectionist", as though that just explained everything.  I told her I am far from it as I have a very "good enough" type of mentality towards life.  Or as my mother called it, a "half-asser".  But Andrea insisted.  She made her mind about me before she even got to know me at all.  And I knew from then on, she'd try to claim I was a "perfectionist".  Granted, I would have listened to her and would have been happy for her to expand on the idea, that maybe she saw something in me that I didn't.  But she not only insisted, when I told her "I have never once thought of myself as a perfectionist", her face turned smug and she said "Nope, you definitely are one."  

Well, if I could diagnose her, it would be with severe ADHD (she couldn't keep her brain on straight the entire time we talked--I have ADHD myself, so I recognize it in others), and possibly some narcissistic tendencies.  But I don't know her well enough to say she's a narcissist, even though she didn't know me well enough to claim anything about me either, but she did anyways.  Which really clued me in to how our sessions were going to go.  

She also bragged that many of her clients ghost her because they hate her so much.  I can see why.  

The thing is, I think the one receptionist doesn't like me and gave her on purpose.  But then again, I am not sure the receptionist likes anyone.    

I give her a solid ZERO (if I could give her a negative number, I would) out of five stars and a F- grade as a therapist.  

We did in person sessions only.