Diamond State Counseling

If you're looking to be seen, heard, cared for and supported appropriately, go somewhere else. If you happen to be or love someone who is queer, stay away from Stephanie. If you intend to complete screening questions and have your answers taken seriously, then do not go see Stephanie. I took 2 assements. I answered no to every single one of the questions listed on an assement and answered yes to at least 90% of the questions on the other assessment. However, in her opinion, I had the condition described in the first assessment in which I answered yes to zero questions. I have been seen by various mental health professionals off and on since 2007. This was by far the worst experience of any of them. I left feeling shamed, embarrassed and judged. If you happen to be a Cisgender female experiencing PMDD or perimenopause, please consider seeing someone else. She will not take you seriously. If you, like me, have very much begun second guessing prior diagnoses based on years of medications that only made your life far worse than it was before seeking medication and therapy, see someone else. I was there hoping to start fresh after many years of being over medicated. If you continue to prod people about their marriages and sex life when you are there to discuss very specific mental health symptoms that are in no way shape or form related to the symptoms you have exhibited for a lifetime, you will probably upset them. I was not there for therapy. I was there to be assessed and diagnosed and potentially prescribed medication based on legitimate questions, symptoms and my responses. It was wildly unprofessional to continue to prod me about a relationship change. A simple recommendation for therapy would have sufficed. Not only am I offended, I was deeply hurt. I've spent all 43 years of my life with myself and 17 with my spouse. Someone thinking they know far more about me and my relationship of 17 years after an hour is highly unprofessional. The only thing I was given, was more trauma. Outside of the awful evaluation, they really need to get their phones and portal properly updated and monitored. There's no reason in almost 2026 a software engineer can't quickly correct an error in their portal that shows the wrong address for your appointment. It's even worse when you call 6 times the day of your appointment to try and confirm the location and no one answers the phone. At a bare minimum, a voice notification or banner explaining system issues, would have saved me a lot of stress and trouble. I really wish I had not shared so much of my personal information with Stephanie. I very much regret providing such detailed personal information about myself with this person. I am a person. With 43 years experience of being me. I am not a spectacle and she made me feel like one. Patients are not simply case studies. I'm not just an appointment on your calendar. A task to fill an hour. I am a human being, and I did not feel as though I was treated as such. I really would love to find some actual relief with the constant rumination that I experience. But at this point, despite trying many medications and getting no where, there doesn't seem to be much of a point. If my symptoms are just going to be ignored, I suppose i'll just overthink myself to death. To know that her notes will forever live in my medical records but my actual thoughts and feelings will not, is terrifying. As someone who most certainly has been dismissed, mistreated and ignored in the past based on someone's opinion of my symptoms, I am so disappointed in myself for trusting Stephanie to actually listen to me. I have a suspicion she may have had the impression that I was there only to obtain specific medications and may have notated as such. That could not be further from the truth. UPDATE: I called to cancel my appointment for tomorrow on 12/2 @8:53Am I had no option but the leave a voicemail. THEY NEVER CANCELLED THE APPOINTMENT. I just got the reminder on a Sunday. IF they charge my card I will be overdrawn and totally SCREWED. Fix this now!

I have had the absolute best experience at DSC for myself and family members. The providers are attentive in a comfortable setting. Their experience and care comes through in every interaction.