Podesta Wellness

"I highly recommend Dr. Podesta to anyone who is looking for a dedicated and caring psychiatrist. After collaborating with her on multiple patients, I can report that she spends a lot of time individualizing her treatment recommendations for each individual patient. I also appreciate that she is constantly looking for any new treatment that can be of help to her patients."

"Dr. Podesta takes the time to help educate you so you know what’s going on with yourself. She always first recommends natural remedies (they sell them there) before moving onto stronger pharmaceuticals. If they don’t work she’s receptive in hearing you out and Finding something that will work. This is rare in our medical system. She’s known nationwide for her research and her practice is brilliant! High recommendation it will change your life."

"So I've been playing phone tag with this practice for about 2 weeks now. They do not have a phone that rings (at least anytime that I've called). This has lead to endless voicemails back and forth until I eventually just told them to email me. After all this phone tag and inability to talk to human, I finally get an email. The email simply told me that the first session is 400 and the second session is 175 both billed at the same time. So after two weeks of not being able to reach a person over the phone, I was told it would be $575 for the first two sessions. This group needs to work on their communication. Especially considering their chosen line of work."

"I've been hesitant to write this review as I've never written a poor review for someone before, but this experience keeps coming back to me as something I should warn others of. I went to see Jan Johnson for a specific issue with a specific question. Instead she spent the vast majority of our 2 hour session trying to convince me that a plant based diet is unhealthy (despite loads of scientific research) and barely glanced over the question I had specifically come to her about. She also twisted my words to make it sound like I was a sick and mentally ill patient, where in reality I came to her in good health and fitness (at the beginning of our session she even said "well the good news is, you don't have a lot of health issues). For example: when I said I sometimes took afternoon naps (quick 20 minutes to give myself a short break from working, I even clarified that I am never so tired I must take a nap, it's just a nice thing I like to do sometimes) , she twisted it and said I had lethargy and extreme exhaustion. It's like she wasn't listening to me, just hearing what she wanted to be able to write me off as a sick vegan. And the final kicker at the end was when she recommended I read a pseudoscience book (that cites Wikipedia!) "to educate myself". She also speculated on why my late father may have died young and then suggested that I might have the same gene mutation that may have contributed to his early death. Despite not having ANY of his medical records or autopsy. I think it was incredibly irresponsible for someone in the medical field to SPECULATE on the matter of death and then to suggest off handedly that I might have that same gene that killed my father. I am sure Jan doesn't have any malicious intent, but she certainly was the wrong RD for me to see and highly recommend that anyone following a vegetarian or plant based diet NOT to go to her."

"Dr. Podesta is definitely amazing and you can feel the positive energy when in her presence. Highly recommend her care."