Kathleen E. Hollwig, MS, LMFT

"This was the most degrading and harmful experience I have ever encountered with a psychotherapist, let alone a with a so-called trauma certified clinician. She made zero effort to build rapport, was cold, rude, repeatedly talked down to me, and delegitimized current trauma-informed research from multi-disciplinary fields, including but not limited to, neuroscience, psychology and allopathic medicine. As a poly-trauma survivor, I went in seeking legitimate support for a devastating recent trauma, which had caused an acute PTSD flare, yet rather than being helped, I felt further triggered and retraumatized from her condescending and entirely unempathetic intake. As a former clinician and current trauma researcher myself, it brings great sadness to my heart knowing that potentially fragile trauma survivors are under this ill-mannered clinicians care. It’s a great disservice to the integrity of the field to have practitioners such as this practicing when they clearly are not in alignment with the modalities and populations to which they serve. I am thoroughly appalled by this experience and strongly advocate trauma survivors to find more compassionate care by a clinician with genuine integrity."

"As soon as i told her my last name she started acting funny n eventually said she cant help me, refused to tell me why just said her recommendation is to speak with another dr n she cant help me then hung up on me. i normally only get that type of energy from a racist or bigot but i cant be sure with out actually meeting her, maybe Monday mornings are rough for her or shes just not a people person lol but nonetheless extremely rude. You would think she would be more kind or at least sensitive if she chose to be in the mental health field."