Thomas E. Bell, MFT 701 B Street, San Diego, CA 92101

"The judge in my family law matter recommended him for the reunification process with my children. I drove all the way down from Big Bear Lake for our first meeting only to wait 45 minutes in his lobby the first day I met him. Evidently he overbooked sessions that morning. As it turns out he’s terribly disorganized. My former wife and I did four sessions with him and the judge told me I needed to take care of another matter before reunification could begin. Now, after paying him several hundred dollars for four sessions he tells me he ‘has too many cases’ and ‘can’t devote the time that I’ll require.’ Excuse me? That’s right, he abandoned the case right in the very middle of it. Highly questionable and unethical conduct indeed. He’s not a very friendly fellow and for a marriage and family counselor, that’s highly unusual. For what it’s worth, I still haven’t seen my children during this whole period. If you want REAL RESULTS, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. This guy will waste your time AND your money and you’ll be right back where you started in the first place! Don’t you even dare try ringing this bell!"

"Terrible experience with Mr Tom Bell, very unprofessional stay away from this man, He is also extremely forgetful, I paid to see him for reunification sessions of my daughter at the request of my ex wife and her attorney Paul Lorelli. I saw him for one year I never saw my daughter once in any of the sessions, because he continued to forget to contact her . He said we would write letters together, back-and-forth to my daughter that never happened , my daughter was only there for one session. He did admit that he gets so busy he forgets to contact her .He cusses and becomes angry in sessions. He also failed to go to court when he was subpoenaed when I was trying to get custody for one day a month of my 13 year old daughter. I was also in the waiting room and another father told me he has been seeing Mr Bell for six months for reunification of his daughter and he has not seen or talked to his daughter once . Mr Bell also shared my information progress with the opposing attorney Paul Lorelli of Garden Grove regarding my sessions. I told Mr Bell not to share my information with anyone that I hired him and I signed a confidentiality form and he denied he shared my info. The info was then used against me in court that I missed one reunification session at a child custody court hearing by the opposing attorney."

"Best in class. I’ve been to a number of therapist in my life time - this gentlemen is cool calm intelligent and has experienced more then most will in a lifetime in his career. Lots of nuggets of wisdom."

"Unprofessional. STAY AWAY!!!"