Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare - Astoria

They don't seem to understand that some patients CANNOT ENGAGE IN THERAPY UNTIL THEY ARE MEDICATED. When I was having severe bi-polar cycles, my doctor medicated me for a month before I had any therapy at all. I was not mentally able to participate in therapy at all until I was stable. CBH does not seem to understand this. I am trying to get help for a relative and they just don't get it!

Mayleena in the tricare department is an absolute doll and so easy to work with.nI would say, however, stay far from Linda Robinson. I was scheduled with her for counseling and I am genuinely wondering if she is a mental health professional. we met thrice, each time i had to re-explain some traumas in my life because she did not once take notes. additionally, she would sit in silence often seeming as if she couldnt think of ways to fill the measly 30 minutes she spent with me. if you care about your mental health, do not go here.

If I could give no stars I would. It’s hard to get help for yourself when the psych talks over you and doesn’t even let you get a word in edgewise an pushes meds your not ok with and second guesses your 5 year diagnosis. The whole experience made my mental health worse. I’ve had nothing but horrible experiences with cbh. No wonder those who need help don’t seek it. The turnover rate is also horrible. The administrative director shyra basicly told me to withdrawl an suffer.

I just don't have words for the inadequacy and carelessness of the counselors here. Sigh. I'll just say, I am truly happy that I found SHORELINE counseling instead. My trauma is being addressed, I am taken seriously there, and my counselor communicates so professionally and adequately, and actually shows up to her appointments instead of cancelling time after time, literally as I'm sitting in the waiting room for my appointment as CBH has so many times. I have never been treated like a child at Shoreline, as I was at CBH (shocking and blew my mind), I have never been brushed off and cancelled on at times that it's crucial that my appointments are kept by the counselor at Shoreline... So no thank you CBH. You need a very serious, very fervid reform. Thank you Shoreline, for being there when I need you. In fact, I'm going to pop on over to their website and add 5 stars and a raving review.

Things go smoothly as long as you’re only looking to monologue the stressors in your life to be abruptly cut off the second time expires for your session. If you pressure your therapist to actually assist in helping apply coping skills and mechanisms that actually improve mental health, prepare to be given indignant pushback, be lied to, and ultimately be dropped from their service as a final act of cowardice. The only glimmering tidbit I ever got from almost an entire year of wasting my time with my therapist who I’m politely not naming, was when he would interject through my monologue with: “where do you feel it when you say ______?” Absolutely no feedback after i answered him, so I never even got to understand what that was even addressing. Obviously the county is hurting for mental health services, so I’m assuming they must be picking and choosing the easiest clientele to fill up their billable hours. CBH would never be a viable clinic if it wasn’t for the wonderful court system in place here. Avoid this place like the plague.