Therapists - Brookline, MA

"Unprofessional and not to be trusted. "

"Back in 1981 I found Dr Karen Kurlander through a colleague who was also seeing her. I was a mess, she was my first therapist when I was a new student at Boston Conservatory. With karen I had found so much peace uncovering all that troubled me. It is because of my time with Karen that I had the courage to take the necessary risks to move through my life in a healthy way as an Artist. I highly recommend Dr Karen Kurlander to anyone who is ready to uncover the truths in their lives. She was direct and caring. I just relocated back to MA and have been in need of some help with all the changes and of course thought of Karen after 30+ years of life lived. I had connected with her a time or two via phone from CA through some tough times. I'm so happy to have found her again. We have had one session so far and I feel like i'm back home. I've had many therapists along the way and always measure them up against Karen. I know I'm in good hands"

"Anna is the real deal -- unparalleled ability to listen, has the ability to make you feel whole, super-reliable when it comes to co-navigating feelings and existential states, and always compassionate and caring. She was unwavering in all these ways over the course of 11 years of therapy. "

"I hired laura okin to act as a GAL in a child custody case. She failed to follow the GAL guidelines to the point where she didnt even review my sons medical records. Dr okin admited her failure to follow these guidelines in a deposition and immediately began crying when the failures were established. Despite Dr okins failure to review key documents and to allow for submission of documents by both sides , dr okin flatly refused to amend any aspect of her work despite it being proven that doing so was warranted an appropriate. Dr okin is the daughter of a prominent feminist theorist and her general worldview and professional opinions are blatantly impacted by those views , which in a family law setting amount to a demonstrable bias against men and an uneven valuation of the roles mother and father play in a childs life. I caution any patient or litigant from getting involved with laura okin. Simpy put: she took 8 grand and delivered a shoddy, biased, and unprofessional report. To date laura okin has refused to refund a dime or offer a basic apology. These actions speak for themselves. "

"I had a pretty terrible experience with Anne Weaver. I saw Anne for three sessions before she decided she couldn't work with my trauma. Instead of being honest and sending me on my way, Anne said she would find interim support for me, and meet with me and my partner, in order to help with the trauma I was dealing with acutely in the meantime. Anne also said she would make all appropriate referrals. This would have been great, had she done any of it. Instead, Anne didn't keep her word. She never found the interim support she promised, never met with my partner and myself, and the single referral she made to me doesn't even take my insurance. When I asked Anne about this, she screamed at me to go to a peer respite, or go to the emergency room. For the record, one of the respites she recommended does not exist yet, one is nearly 600 per day, and someone just got stabbed, nearly to death at the third. When I drew her attention to this, she resumed screaming at me to go to the hospital. She started screaming about the holiday traffic she would have to deal with on her way to her vacation. I'm a trauma survivor who has had horrific experiences in the psych system. Anne knows this. All I needed was someone to talk to. Anne volunteered to help me with this, but instead, this "recovery orientated, strength based" therapist was screaming that I should go to the emergency room. I didn't need to completely derail my life and traumatize myself by going inpatient, I just needed someone to talk to, so I could keep moving forward. Basically, this therapist may mean well, but my experience with Anne was pretty harmful. This therapist does NOT work in a recovery model, and she does not have any class conscious or trauma awareness. "