Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders

"Our child has been helped immensely by the therapists here."

"This place helped treat a lot of anxiety disorders and related issues that I suffered from in middle school, and still at age 21, I find these doctors highly specialized in their fields and always willing to help. Nice office, friendly people, and the cognitive behavioral therapy methods they use are extremely beneficial to those who need... seriously life-altering!"

"I read the negative review of CUCARD before taking my daughter for her intake appointment - it should have been a red flag, unfortunately I did not take it seriously. CUCARD's website lists a wide range of services for people with anxiety and a promising source for those suffering from debilitating anxiety and related disorders. After reading the material over on the website, I was certain it would be a place where my daughter could receive help. The intake process took a long time and didn't allow me to further assess the program. After the intake took place, I was told my daughter was not going to be offered services. I was charged $375 for nothing. I sincerely question whether they have the services they list. If they are what they say they are, there is no question in my mind that my daughter would have received treatment. An enormous waste of time and money. CUCARD - try being more honest and transparent regarding your services. and don't waste the time of people who are looking for real help."

"Horrible. First of all, their billing department is absolutely chaotic. Their invoices are unreadable, and we were frequently billed more than once for paid visits, and billed for visits that we never scheduled or attended. Even now, eight months after we last went to CUCARD, we just received a call asking again for our insurance information (which we gave them on more than one occasion) for visits eight months ago that have already been paid and processed. What's most important, of course, is the treatment and in this respect CUCARD was absolutely disgraceful. Our daughter was referred there after she began having serious panic attacks that made it impossible for her to attend school. The therapist and psychologist we went to treated her with an absolute lack of empathy or understanding, applying a "cookie cutter" approach to CBT that didn't help her at all, and in some ways made her anxiety worse. When it became obvious that the treatment didn't help their response was to chastise my daughter, my wife and myself in our sessions, suggesting that we were "not on board" with helping her get better. In addition, although it took over two months after our initial intake to get my daughter scheduled for therapy at CUCARD, her therapist there spent many sessions complaining that my daughter wasn't getting better because we didn't get her in for treatment fast enough - in fact, some sessions were utterly wasted because the therapist would spend time complaining about how she should have been in treatment sooner, rather than actually providing treatment. What else? Oh, and we paid for my daughter to be placed in group therapy at CUCARD only to find that some weeks the group only had two people in it - the therapist and my daughter. When we finally decided to move my daughter to Child Mind Institute - a wonderful place, by the way - her therapist at CUCARD took the immature and vindictive action of telling my daughter, during her last session there, that my wife and I were "bouncing" her from treatment to treatment, and that she would probably fail to get better as a result. thanks. CUCARD is a joke, and a harmful one at that. Avoid at all costs."