Mary Ellen O'keefe, ARNP at 1000 McKenzie Avenue in Bellingham, Washington

Customer Reviews about Mary Ellen O'keefe, ARNP

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  I've never left a negative review in my life and part of me feels bad about doing it now. However, a poor mental health practitioner can have very serious consequences for a mentally vulnerable patient so I'm going to do it. After a major crisis (with suicidal ideation), I thought it best to find a prescribing mental health ARNP (apparently psychiatrists are hard to come by) to get a diagnosis and manage my psych meds rather than having my PC Dr do so. I've seen Mary Ellen O'Keefe about a dozen times (too many). During my 1st appointment I was shocked at her insensitive, overly direct and intimidating manner. Certainly not what you would expect from a mental health care provider. I wouldn't have gone back but there weren't any another prescribing/diagnosis practitioners available and I was desperate to receive a diagnosis and begin proper treatment so I could recover. I was always on edge and nervous for each appointment and actually felt like I had to change my answers to please and validate HER...so I wouldn't feel invalidated or cause a mean response from her. I learned that contradicting any of her ideas or notions about what she thinks is going on, even if you know they are off base, is grounds for intimidating and frankly, abusive responses from her. Very weird and inappropriate dynamic in my opinion. Kind of defeats the purpose in fact. After every appointment, I vowed to myself never to come back. Something is wrong when you are too scared to "fire" a mental health practitioner. I told myself I would just stop making appointments and give the med management back to my PC Dr. I would then talk myself out of it and try not to be "so sensitive." Well, after reading these other reviews I am realizing it isn't just me being too sensitive. I appreciate these other reviewers validating my thoughts on this practitioner as now I feel confident enough to stop seeing her and it's why I decided to write this as well. It's really too bad there is such a lack of good prescribing/diagnosing mental health practitioners out there to choose from. Unless you have very thick skin, I would not recommend this practitioner. It will be worth the wait to see someone else. I'm still to scared to call her...I'm just not going to make another appointment and hope my PC Dr will prescribe what I need before my prescriptions run out.
  April 23, 2017

  by Pandie Head

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