Dr. Yvonne H Osborne, PhD

Take this warning seriously! Ask yourself how someone has been practicing for 47 years and has one, well two now, reviews on the entire internet. Read the review before mine. It is completely accurate. The exact thing happened to me. I even showed this review to the company I was using for my disability and they said don’t worry. This Dr. player a memory game with me a few minutes and based on that decided the VA had actually given me too high of a rating!!!!!! Said I just need more medication! This person is someone you want that stay away from and hopefully karma get ahold of her sooner rather than later.

Incompetent, unqualified, person who does not have the expertise or capacity to diagnose severe mental illness (especially in less than an hour). She should not be in the position to evaluate strangers and form opinions about the severity of a person's mental illness after one brief meeting. I question her credentials. Even worse she is able to submit her input to SSA as evidence. Her so-called evaluation negatively impacted my legitimate claim for SSDI. The evaluation consisted of her reading a series of random numbers and asking me to repeat the numbers back to her in the correct order. That was it. Why? I felt it was a distraction to keep me from talking or revealing something she could not ethically ignore. I told her I had put a loaded gun in my mouth and she was uninterested in exploring further. She seemed to evade open discussion and she asked me no questions concerning my family history of mental illness, my prior or current medication history, any types of treatment history,… therapy, etc. She works on behalf of SSA. She blatantly disregarded the facts presented and the behavior she observed during the assessment. She then submitted a watered down vague summary report completely lacking relevant details. She did use filler words in the report including irrelevant and incorrect info. Her unfavorable report was weighed by the ALJ at my hearing as more accurate and reliable than the records submitted by medical doctors and psychiatrists who had treated me consistently over a period of months and years. How is this allowed to happen? I'm at a loss now. Why did she do this to me? I was denied. I have no income and need help. I qualify for SSDI at 56 with plenty of work credits but I was denied after waiting for over two years. Sobbing ??