Lawrence Kerns & Associates

"I am appalled at the treatment my daughter received; she has never once seen a psychiatrist, has had several "telehealth" visits with a different NP who asks the same questions each time. They prescribed her Ritalin but did not give her enough to last until the next NP telehealth; so she is without medication - they said they would mail the prescription a week ago - She has not received it - please don't go here. If they weren't getting money from our insurance they would be after us like a pack of wild dogs!"

"Never been here, review went to another company when I went to post."

"Was treated by Kerns for a couple of years when I was in middle school. I was severely over medicated and Kerns made comments about how I “didn’t seem mentally ill” because I came in looking put together and was polite. Despite this assertion, I was misdiagnosed with Bipolar Disorder by Kerns. My parents frequently were brought to sit in on my psychiatry and therapy appointments and my confidentiality was breeched (as they told my parents what we spoke about when they weren’t in the room). As a result of this I felt unsafe disclosing that I was being abused by my parents and went on to suffer in silence for many years. They could’ve helped me. How different my life would be."

"Kerns the psychiatrist who owns the practice never actually sees you. You never even see a psychiatrist all together. He has stupid nurse practitioners talk to you every appointment. They know nothing about depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar, or any mental disorder. The NP asks you questions like a broken record, that she already knows the answers too. They give you medications as if you're a lab rat. If you become worse after being put on a medication, they never once stop to think it could be the meds we put them on. Instead, they keep you on the medication, give you more medication, and make you go to unnecessary therapy. If you say I don't need therapy, well then they tell you we won't treat you anymore. Which by the way is patient ABANDONMENT. If you choose to stop a medication on your own, and then you feel better. They say, I guess we did have you on to many medications. They have no idea what they are doing!! They only want to keep you sick, so they can keep getting your money. A therapist there, named Lisa Lucchese breached ethics on many occasions. My child suffered permanent mental anguish because of her treatment. We have already filed a complaint with the Illinois board of psychology, and we are seeking damages against her. I hope she has a good lawyer. Overall their plan is to wreck your mind to the point that you can't function in daily life. His whole practice should be shutdown, and his license should be revoked. Stay far away from them, they will not help you, they will only make you much much worse. I would give them no stars if I could. His days off being a psychiatrist will soon be over."

"Horrible experience here, first off not quite the doctors office but a home turned into an office, Let’s start off with the basics, if you’re getting medication from here 75% chance it’s always someone different, the personal therapist I had constantly had her shoes off and sitting pretzel in a chair like she doesn’t care, the lawrence will threaten you on your medication if you don’t do as told, was misdiagnosed with Bipolar, lawrence thought it was a good idea to put me on depakote, WHICH WORSENSED THE SYMPTOMS I had saw three other doctors and said there’s no symptoms of Bipolar, every doctor I saw there has been fired by lawrence. I had seen three people for medication and two people for therapy (should show the relationship they all have there) I wouldn’t recommended someone here if they paid me 20k to write a 5 star!"