Dr. Cynthia Z Mealer, PhD

It's been a few years since I'm seen Dr. Cynthia Mealer, but I have to leave this review to be at peace. Dr. Mealer was not a horrible therapist, but also not the best. We got along fine and she was very personable. The lingering memory for me was the early morning phone call I got from her. The previous evening I found out that my son had been sockually abused by my step-father. (He was not allowed to be alone with my boys. It's a long story how he got access.) Needing support, I contacted Dr. Mealer. I had to leave a message and didn't hear back until the next morning. In that phone call Dr. Mealer, knowing that my step-dad had also sockually abused me, told me NOT to report the sockual abuse. She told me that I didn't want my step-dad to have to be a registered socks offender and all that. What? I was so confused! He is a pedphle and should be in prison and a registered socks offender! Why would I not want that? Not to mention that she is a mandatory reporter! She is required by law… to report abuse and not only was she not going to report it, she told me not to report it. Thankfully I was in an IOP program at the time and my therapist there said that if I didn't report the sockual abuse, he would. I texted Dr. Mealer that I was uncomfortable not reporting the sockual abuse of my young son. At that point she did say to report it if I wanted to. Yes, with the support of my therapist at IOP I did report it! In the crisis at the time I dropped the ball and failed to report Dr. Mealer to the appropriate authorities for telling me not to report the abuse when she is a mandatory reporter. Due to her serious lack of judgement in this situation, I cannot ever recommend Dr. Mealer as a therapist.