• This Practitioner Cannot Be Trusted...Not For Days, Not for Weeks, Not for Months, Not Ever
My experience with Dr. Fehlberg is my VERY last with a psychologist. She is the third I have tried, and I am DONE with psychologists. I have had infinitely better outcomes with Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs). LCSWs are trained to know resources in the communities in which they serve. In my experience, they are MUCH better and trained in EVERY way!
I have found that THE BEST kind of talk therapy is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The purpose of CBT is to teach constructive thinking habits and eliminate common thinking errors. LCSWs, especially those who specialize in trauma, can be EXTREMELY helpful. My PTSD was helped immeasurably by an outstanding, total pro of an LCSW. I will never again let a psychologist do what I feel is to stab me in the back EVER again.
As a psychologist, Dr. Fehlberg is NOT to be trusted. She refuses to live up to the financial commitments she… herself pledged to observe. These failed commitments are not to be tolerated. If you have documents, such as bank statements or signed documents demonstrative of broken commitments, IMMEDIATELY! take them immediately to the Utah State Department of Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL).
Do NOT EVER give her or ANY other practitioner ANY kind financial information. That means no card numbers or ANY kind of financial information she (or others) could easily take advantage of. Don't pay ahead. Pay on time, but don't pay ahead.
It FINALLY took took four months of promises weekly made and four months of broken promises weekly before I finally got my money back. I don't think I would have ever gotten my money back unless I would have continued to insist she cough it back up.
I am a person of modest means, and she knew it! It seemed utterly ridiculous that she continually made and broke those promises. I found it completely unacceptable for her to blow me off for months on end before FINALLY returning my money to me. To my amazement, during this time, Dr. Fehlberg spoke often of her "ethics" and of the "relationship" about what she said is supposed to happen between the practitioner and patient in order to make that "relationship" to be successful. I felt those ongoing lectures very wearisome and even hypocritical. I finally asked what she felt was the most important part of that relationship. She replied that "trust" was the most important.
Finally, after I asked her that question she at last quit talking about ethics and trust. I felt she knew that she was blowing it, but was trying to talk me in to agreeing with these characteristics as she described them. I felt enormously frustrated that someone who seemed to endlessly preach about "trust" and "ethics" could not be relied upon by me to have either characteristic.
Unfortunately, I'm very sad to feel that I must advise readers of this review, in NO uncertain terms, to avoid ever making an initial call, visit, or appointment with Dr. Fehlberg. She has a very inviting personality but DO NOT, by ANY means allow yourself to get taken in by that!
Dr. Fehlberg, in my experience, is NOT to be trusted. If there was some sort of conflict that came up between the two of us...it didn't happen often, but enough to mention it...she refused to agree to try to participate in trying to work it out. The only response from her was NOTHING expect the silent treatment. I find this intolerable for someone who is supposed to be a TALK therapist. She will talk about the "ethics" of her profession but again fails, in my view, to live up to them. Again, I feel this behavior to be wholly inconsistent with what she claims to be her "ethics" or "trust".
I sincerely believe and think Dr. Fehlberg has intrinsic worth just like any other human being. Unfortunately, in my experience, she fails in her professional commitment to live up to what she claims her "ethics" to be. She says she has practiced 25 years. If she can't get her ethics straight after this long, I cannot have a lot of hope she'll change her ways now.
Sadly, from months of waiting to see if she would ever come around, she never really did. I FINALLY did get my money back. The moment that I recovered my money I should have IMMEDIATELY hit the road. I hope that at some time in the immediate future that the State of Utah Department of Professional Licensing (DOPL) will eventually get on to her and pull her license to practice in this State.
I urge you with all my heart to absolutely do NOT hire this person to care for you, members of your family, or others who are dear to you!
At the prices we pay for medical care, each of us deserves the BEST. Do NOT settle for just ANYONE. Too much is at stake. I've had more experience, sadly, of talk therapy practitioners who really don't know what they're doing than those who do.
Listen to your gut. If you continue to feel uneasy about the kind of treatment you're receiving, fire at once whoever it is and find someone else who will live up to what they have promised you.
If your therapist says that he or she are offended by being fired, especially when you've done it tactfully, that's just too bad. If this is OK, explain that it's nothing personal, you simply don't feel comfortable with the care you have been receiving and you hope that he or she will understand.
It's we, the patients, who count most and if your practitioner tries to shame you in to staying on, it's DEFINITELY time for you and/or your family members to take off!! Take care of yourself!
Our mental and/or physical health and what we are compelled to pay means we deserve the BEST! Be as civil as possible, but when you feel it's necessary, DO NOT allow yourself to be coerced in to a situation that is NOT in the best interests for you and for family. Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself, your family, and those friends you love and care about!!
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