Christian Malaspina

Review of Gronowski Clinic

In my opinion this place is not very good. However...

In my opinion this place is not very good. However they have a sliding fee scale and it was very cheap for me so I guess I got what I paid for.
My intern was named ANNA and she was not very professional. She would begin the sessions by asking 'what is important to talk about?', which in my opinion is a way to cop out of the Socratic Method, which is the cornerstone of therapy. She would often ask erroneous questions which would lead us to tangents, thus wasting precious time. I told her about some challenges I was grappling with and she said she would help me devise a plan or formulas to start tackling them, but then never did.
She never took any notes. She acted very interested until I was asked to complete a survey to rate her performance, in which I gave quite high marks, and then her performance began to slide. It was almost as if she was going through the motions to hit the 50 minute mark as smoothly as possible.
After one of the sessions she mentioned how much money she could make after finishing the program. She would ask hypothetical questions that were a bridge to nowhere. She would ask me how I felt about a certain issue and when I replied she would correct me and tell me I was being judgemental instead of expressing feelings.
Finally, during the last session, for reasons I still can't figure out, she stopped talking and gave me a smug, blank stare for about 45 seconds. If you do go here as a patient, I don't recommend ANNA.