Metis Center for Psychological Services - Lafayette, Colorado

Simone T.

A therapist here caused lasting harm due to her negligence & I do not think she should have a license.

We’d gone through intake & done paperwork. It was time for my first real appointment & my dad had just randomly died. Then when I traveled back home from that I was targeted for my disabilities at public transport, made to endure pain in front of hundreds of passersby while I begged to please be allowed to sit how I needed for my disabilities (they tried to physically remove me because my ride was late & I was so grief-stricken & exhausted that I looked like an unhoused person).

This LCSW (new to the area from Ohio) wouldn’t let me talk about my dead dad, then tried to pathologize me based on my returning to the topic & discussing it in an order that I deemed healing for me. My communication is very recognizably autistic & I need to communicate in ways I find comfortable to empower myself & work through pain—something every therapist should allow with each/every client, because it’s inherently connected to facets of identity like disability, culture, age, etc. She kept interrupting me to ask questions that got me distracted & disoriented from what I was trying to communicate. This Ohioan social worker kept trying to diagnose me: “you know I have to diagnose you with something every time I see you, right?!” She kept trying to get me to look at PTSD when I was activated from two traumas within the same week.

This therapist also interrupted me during intake with “THAT’S CODEPENDENCY” when I said, as a disabled person, that I needed to find solutions about how to be independent yet safe, because a near-death experience made both my partner & I afraid to be apart (doctors wouldn’t believe and almost killed me). Apparently even mentioning a totally rational fear is “codependent.” She also said “that’s not good” when I said my relative was a gun owner. She shouldn’t be a therapist if she’s going to interject personal views. I didn’t initially realize how wrong her choices were.

I do not have PTSD. I do not have depression or anxiety. I am autistic & I have ADHD. I needed help processing back-to-back traumatic events.

I had wrongly assumed when she accepted me as a client that she’d educate herself about autism—why would she accept me if she knew nothing when I was very clear about myself, my disabilities, & my worldview? In 3 weeks between intake & the 1st appointment she admittedly read NOTHING about autism.

After TRAUMATIZING me, this Ohioan social worker ended the appointment by suggesting that because of how I responded to her mistreatment, I must have multiple personality disorders. The fact she tried to diagnose me because of her ignorance while repeatedly thwarting my efforts to discuss what I needed—& I did so in a classically autistic way—is absolutely horrific. I consider the experience to be abuse & I have real concerns about this therapist’s intent & possible projections onto her clients.

I ask everyone reading this to empathize and imagine what it would be like to have someone refuse to educate themselves about your disability (even though they should already be an authority), then disallow you from discussing what you need, activating & traumatizing you, then using that as proof of their opinion, thus further pathologizing you with incorrect, highly-stigmatized disorders. (Everyone is deserving of respect and treatment—including those with PDs; I just know that assessment is absolutely incorrect for me and is something uneducated therapists put on autists that leads to further abuse, discrimination, and murder by the medical industrial complex.)

Therapists who refuse to educate themselves on autism cause lasting harm. Her ADHD diagnosis seems a shield to say whatever she wants under the guise of being “direct,” while actually causing harm that she should reasonably know she’s causing. Due to the drastic nature of these interactions and layers of inappropriateness, I’m left questioning whether this LCSW enjoys treating patients this way. Whether intentional or not: this woman is DANGEROUS.

Nathan C.

John was compassionate and did a great job helping my daughter with her anxiety. In addition, they are one of the few places that will accept insurance and worked with my to get my daughter on the schedule as quickly as possible.

Alison H.

We are experiencing a mental health crisis in our country, with many people in need of mental health care and not enough providers. With a scarcity of providers and a ton of clientele, there is little incentive for therapists to take insurance. Kudos to this Center for accepting insurance. However, given their extensive wait lists, it seems as though they are not concerned about losing patients. After searching for months to find a provider for my son that would take insurance, we were excited to be given a standing spot with a new provider here. The provider decided to "change his schedule" which made the appointment times impossible for us and now we're back at square one, trying to find anyone with an opening who takes insurance. Future advice for the next generation - go into the field of therapy! Counselors and therapists have never ending work and have the luxury to change schedules and take vacations (even immediately after starting their job!) without fear of it impacting their employment.

Kaylie M.

We called them for couples therapy with the consent of my parents and my partners (we are both minors) called this place to have an update on if they will take us, and the lady who picked up, I dont know what her name is proceeded to say that they cant accept my partner, even though it was made clear he isnt homleless and he is living with his biological family proceeded to then say that they could not take him because they dont want him to say something and they have to report it and go to court. When all therapist are mandated reporters. So whether or not you want to go to court or not reporting stuff is apart of your job. 1/10. Would NOT recommend. Please go somewhere else.

Toria T.

Read the fine print. You will be billed for any services that your insurance company denies - even if the denial could be prevented by them resubmitting the claim. Other than that, Sunda did a good job with her assessment and it met the requirements of what we needed for our insurance company to authorize a surgery.

Owen L.

Having been a client myself, and having had friends and family as clients, I am blown away by the quality of the therapists on staff at The Metis Center. The friendly environment, their sliding scale policy, and the culture they bring as an organization is exactly what any counseling office should work towards.

Paul D.

I haven't actually been seen here, but I have talked with the admin staff. They all seem very professional, knowledgeable and empathetic.

Michael W.