Dr. Alexandra Burch, PhD

Abusive behavioral therapist. She refuses to practice anything else other than behavior therapy, even when it was incredibly inappropriate to recommend this in my situation. Disregards the severity of patients situations, and complete disregard for patients symptoms. She lacks the education to understand the many circumstances of when behavioral therapy is inappropriate and harmful. I am STILL traumatized MANY YEARS LATER due to her harmful treatment recommendations.

Her only psychotherapeutic method was unsolicited advice. When I told her as politely as I could that that advice was not for me, and suggested that another psychotherapeutic method be used instead, as unsolicited advice for my problems was not for me, she fell back on what seemed to be her only psychotherapeutic left- listening only, while asking questions, when no helpful nor supporting words whatsoever. I stayed for many months in therapy with her, waiting for her to get better at her job, with no therapeutic progress and no therapeutic support. I specifically asked her if she could please support me. Her response was to fail in saying even 1 supporting statement to me throughout many months of therapy with her, which I did according to her recommendation. This lady does not know the definition of support. This is the most basic thing the therapist should give in therapy to establish a basic therapist to patient relationship, and she could not do this at all under the time span of… less than 1 year of therapy. My therapy with her still haunts me until this day.

I told her that I was bullied in grade school and I was very alienated by the other students, having no friends throughout my school years. Her response was that that must have been my fault.

Very egotistical therapist who refuses to remove herself from the high pedestal she places herself on, enough to understand her patients perspectives. She has a control freak issue, where she wants to control her patients whole life & actions. Her mind is completely closed off to accommodating the reasons for why the patient is coming to therapy for themselves, and is only interested in fulfilling her own selfish goals during the patient's therapy. This grown woman acts like a teenage "mean girl" jn terms of how she writes about her patients in her therapy notes. This therapist cannot help anyone with mental illness. She has a God Complex in association with practicing CBT. Her CBT therapy methods cannot be performed properly by her without heavily invalidating the patient and heavily insulting the patient. She does not practice trying to create a therapeutic relationship at ALL. NOT Patient-Centered.

She talked badly about me in her psychotherapy notes. What a snob. Very unprofessional and inappropriate.

Alexandra Burch ONLY practices exposure behavioral therapy. She is uneducated about how to practice any other psychotherapeutic modalities. If a different psychotherapeutic modality other than exposure therapy is what is appropriate treatment for you as an individual patient, you still won't get the therapy that you need, because she is NOT educated on how to practice ANY other psychotherapeutic modalities other than exposure therapy behavioral therapy. If you ask for "support" or "validation," she will give you NONE. I went to her for a long time, and she never supported me in ONE spoken statement. How she would speak to me was so inappropriate that I would have dissociation and have out of body experiences in her therapy room, because I was making myself so vulnerable and open to her with no supportive response ever on her end.

If I could give 0 stars, I would