Marisa Padgett, LCSW

If you are considering her as a therapist, DON’T. i talked to her for about a year and it was genuinely the worst experience of my life. 1000 characters is nowhere near enough the trauma and pain I’ve acquired after speaking to this joke of a “professional” even after a year and a half I still deeply struggle with opening up and severe anxiety and I’m confident most of it is due to her. During that year with her, I’ve never felt so powerless, judged and misunderstood. I was misdiagnosed with wildly varying mental illnesses, such as autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, which I’ve never exhibited any symptoms to anyone before. This eventually led to me being prescribed medication for disorders I allegedly had, which was never true. This caused so much confusion and pain within my family. After the experience of someone who was genuinely supposed to help me recover and understand myself better, I, to this day, feel like a mentally weaker person and she is (partially) to blame.