We've seen Dr Furuta at Central Ohio Counseling for about 10 years now, and we all love him - don't know what we'd do without him. He never pressures us to take any medication we're uncomfortable taking, or don't need, and tells us if something makes us uncomfortable to stop - which we really appreciate. We love that we feel we can count on him to work with us to help us find a solution when one of us is having difficulties, or is in crisis. I've had a particularly difficult time finding medications that work, and he's been really good about working with me. The only time our appointments with him have been cancelled with him have been cancelled was when he was out with a life threatening illness. I was so depressed when he got sick - more so than when my own father died! He's been a big part of our family - diagnosing and treating me, and our kids with ADD/ADHD. We can be completely honest with our doctor no matter what and he never reacts negatively to what we say - he responds, but not emotionally. Sometimes the kids test him just to see if he will react, or what his reaction will be, but he doesn't react, and later he might say something to me, and I'll tell him they were testing him, and he'll say, "that's good!" and laughs Our doctor is semi-retired, so.I schedule with my appointments with him during my current appointment, so I know I have an appointment the next two months.
I've also seen two counselors there - one a social worker who dumped me all of a sudden with no warning. During the time I saw him I did have some insights, but when he dumped me it was so traumatic, he undid all the work we did together, and it was hard for me to trust people after that.
The other was a psychologist - he was really nice, but spread way too thin. He works 3 jobs but still rarely cancelled on me - so at least that was good, but we seemed to go over the same content week after week - which was very frustrating, When my doctor and I talked about it, he always told me I needed to work through some things - which is what I'd been trying to do. I told the PhD I wanted/needed to do this because I had a lot of anger, rage, hurt over things, but he just kept telling me to "put it behind me", put it on a shelf, etc...Even the social worker was better about my issue than he was - at least he didn't try to get me to just put it behind me! Finally I got tired of wasting my time with him and trying to get him to help me with something he was never going to help me with. My doctor said he was smart enough, but I think he gives him far too much credit!
FIVE start for our doctor!!!!!
ONE star for the social worker who dumped me!
THREE stars for the PhD who didn't try hard enough!
by Julie
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October 20, 2013