Therapists - Richmond, NY

"Ms. Gould is a great therapist. She is compassionate and empathetic and really helped to believe in myself again and to get my life going in the right direction. She helped me face issues with my husband when I found out he was gay, with my teenage son who was using drugs and the loss of my job. I don't know what I would have done with her support, insight and compassion. She helped me to learn how to cope with issues on my own. I have definitely taken away from our sessions practical skills that I can use today on my own. Ms. Gould was always there for me, even at times when I would have thought I wouldn't get a hold of her she often returned my calls at odd hours and talked with me and then never charged me for the calls. I have never come across another therapist wiling to do this. She is a gem. "

"My child met with Dr. Lehrer for nearly a year to help with his mental issues. However her sessions not only further damaged his mental health, but she generated additional issues that did not exist prior to his sessions with her. We need to seek additional therapy and outpatient services as a result of her sessions with our child. She is not experienced to handle mental health issues and she is destructive to her patients. I do NOT recommend Dr. Lehrer. Find another therapist. "

"I have no idea how this woman got her license to practice therapy. She believes being abusive, addiction problems, child neglect, lack of empathy, and pathological lying are just “normal Joe things” and that it’s not a problem just a minor thing you can improve just like everyone else (her exact words). She also claims to do CBT but doesn’t, she instead shows her own unmanaged ADHD (admitted by her) and bounces all over the place about various topics, so quickly you cannot even finish answering a question or giving feedback or asking a question about the prior topic before she has completely switched topics. She does most of the talking, a lot about herself or just random irrelevant things. She also victim blames. She also gave unqualified advice about prescription antidepressants and anxiolytics, specifically to take a sedative and claiming it was “nothing more than a Benadryl and wouldn’t make anyone overly tired” when the drug in question is used as a surgical sedative, and is notorious for having long lasting (days) significant sedation effects, and telling the patient to just keep trying different antidepressants when multiple have been tried causing aggression (a sign of a mood disorder) when the patient doesn’t even have problems with depression, the problem is with rage and anger. She has (again unqualified) disagreed with multiple qualified professional’s opinions that a mood/personality disorder and ADHD are present. She rarely talks about subjects that the patient specifically went there to address because she’s too busy with tangents and hobby-level subject talks, and other topics that are not problematic or are irrelevant. It’s absolutely terrifying that this woman is a school counselor for Wayne central, and it’s very clear why they’ve had severe bullying problems in the past decade resulting in parents having to pull their kids from school. Their own school counselor is a bully to victims and is an enabler to bullies/abusers! Stay clear! And get your kid out of Wayne central for as long as she remains a counselor there!"