Joe Kapp

Review of The maple counseling center

maple center is really a place where they train co...

maple center is really a place where they train cowards rather than therapists. An acquaintance of mine recommended i try contacting this place. They give me a short 15 minute interview, were very quick to charge me $65 for it, and a few days later they turn me away by telephone giving some cockeyed excuse that they are "only students". Of course they gave me a few referrals which were also dead ends.

But it's understandable whats going on with the therapy profession today. It is mostly just tongue and cheek window dressing. You know what happens when I try to contact "therapists" that arent "students"? They will usually give one of 3 excuses for not dealing with you. My favorite one is, "My practice is full" Then there's one I called who after only one or two questions by telephone immediately got intimidated and referred my to someone who wasnt even a therapist!--just a medication prescriber. And who was just as expensive as the one who referred me would have been if i ever could have been one of the lucky few who could have ever met with her. Then of course theyll just outright tell you, "I charge about $500.00 a session." And how many people can really afford those kinds of fees? And these werent even "students" i was contacting!!!

These are likely the kinds of therapists the maple center is producing. Perhaps the therapy profession is dead as we know it. Therapists today are mostly trained to fill their wallets, not to accept challenges. Even the person who referred me to the maple center did not end up any better off after two years of getting service there than when he/she first started going there! They likely only accepted him/her because of some college connection. So try the maple center at your own risk. If you display any signs of having any real problems, i wouldn't bother dealing with them. Theyll likely take your money and turn you away.

But maybe it's just as well that they turned me away. Although I havent dealt with too many therapists in my life on an intimate basis, the more i deal with them, the more I realize that most of them are even crazier than I am. So maybe I'm better off.