I had a court order to visit with this provider. She called me on the phone and completed an intake with me via webex. I felt she was reasonable during that transaction. She then scheduled a time to meet my daughter. That interaction was very short. Her office is strange as it is located in the basement of a church and she does not have a comfortable sitting area for her guests. Which seems odd for a professional. Following the meeting with my daughter she advised me that she was going to schedule a session with my daughter and her father. I told her NO. My daughter is a sex abuse victim and at no time should a child sex abuse victim be placed with a perpetrator without further trust of the therapist and many more steps being taken. You don't just meet with a child for 10 minutes and then throw them in with a perpetrator. You don't know triggers, manipulation characteristics of the offending party, how the child will alert you when they need a break or are intimidated or scared, what will it look like when the child wants to run but cannot. There are so many questions that need to be asked before this interaction takes place. She did not know the details of the abuse or what happened to the child, what, when, why, how long. When did it stop. How did it stop. Is she comfortable now to say no. So, many other things. She was just willing to put my daughter into a triggering and traumatic situation without thinking of all of the ramifications that would come of that interaction. Permanent ones at that.
What a nightmare! She claimed I was unemployed when I left my ex and I literally had paystubs. She attended my Daughter’s birthday party with my ex, but didn’t make it to my place or talk to my family. In her report she stated that I had told her something that could’ve only come from my ex. The disconnection was traumatizing! Blind as a bat
Those provider is a criminal. She is suffering from serious mental illness. She is taking any psych medication there is. She will lie and take your money then start making excuses and when you call her out she will write negative reports against you to the court. She needs to be banned from the courts system.
I contacted Marlene on Dec 4th to schedule a time for my intake. After reviewing her availability we locked in Dec 20th at 10am. After waiting for weeks for any information on her program/classes I reached out on Dec 18th to inform her I still hadn't received ANYTHING. She texted me back saying she was in some classes and she'd get the information over to me as soon as she could (we are talking about 15mins to compose what very well could be a prefabricated email) and that our 10am appointment needed to be pushed back because she either double booked or completely forgot about our scheduled time. I informed her I was okay with making it 11am... So finally on Dec 20th around 9am I received an email briefly explaining how much it would cost and a pdf doc from 2013 that was supposed to be filled out and sent back to her for information on my intake before our first meeting. This is the point I decided that it'd be best to find another person to take these classes with. From my perspective this type of professionalism could very easily roll over into her teaching techniques... if someone can't manage to find time to send a simple email to a potential client who would be paying upwards of $700 dollars for their services what type of effort do you really think they put into their continuing education on these current parenting topics as times are changing indefinitely so continuing to educate yourself of certain topics are imparative? I'm electing to take these classes for the benefit of our son and I'd like to feel confident that the person I'd be learning from is up to date on whatever topics are felt necessary to be discussed. I'll be doing my own research on these topics while finding another professional to work with now as I do feel it is important for my ex-wife and I to be on the same page in regards to parenting our son. But this honestly has been a pretty unorganized and effortless experience for me so far... I wouldn't recommend Marlene to anyone based on my experience. Also, she completely missed my ex-wife intake in which she had to reschedule too.
Marlene is wonderful. She was professional, courteous, and put us at ease. Due to the nature of her work, she is often attacked by people that did not get the outcome they wanted. She, however, is not an issue. I cannot thank her enough for all she's done for us.
Anyone who has the unethical and corrupt contact most of us have received from Marlene please contact me at mom4life0130@gmail.com. There has to be an end to the power the courts give her over families while she fills her pockets.
Abuse of CFI and PRE services by Marlene Bizub is an ongoing action that is against the colorado judicial branch and DORA laws. Complaints can be filed with DORA,Colorado Judicial Branch, State Ethic's Commission and OCR-DOJ. For what and how to do these things contact me at sandyturcotte@rocketmail.com. I have lots of time now that my grandchild will not see me for years.
She pulled for the mother of our great grand son. She was told the mother was a smooth talker, but would not listen. Now mother went to jail in another state and crying out. Hope Marlene enjoys the suffering she placed on the father, grand parents and great grand parents. She charged an out of the world price for practicing with out a license. Wish she needed a lawyer that could not preform. What goes around will come around. Yes we paid her bills or she want to take you to court. No star rating. Could not take it out.
If you were ordered by a judge to have a CFI done and Marlene was the person that did it go back to court!!!! This woman has had her CFI license suspended from Jan. 2015 - June 2016. She misleads you into thinking she's doing a CFI but if you look on your document she calls it something else AFTER you have paid her. She's a scam artist, may god bless her empty soul.
Marlene Bizub is the worst person you can get to do a psych eval. She turned in a one sided biased report to the court on her so called psych eval about my daughter. She rushed the report and didn't bother to interview me, the mother, which she is supposed to do for a minor's psych elav. She did not volunteer to the court that she did not interview me; my attorney had to drag it out of her. It makes me wonder how much she was paid to to do this underhanded, one sided, biased, inaccurate report. A professional in the mental health field, that is non biased would have told the court they needed more time to interview all parties. In my opinion she was paid off by my ex husband.