Monterey County Health Department - Behavioral Health

They have helped me get the help I needed. I wouldn't worry about the negative feedback I've seen. People love to complain about mental health.

Absolute worst place to receive mental health care. If you can, find other places or pay out of pocket for treatment. They over medicate the patients that don't know how to advocate for themselves. If you and your current doctor are not working well together, and you request a change of clinician, they will tell you in a polite way they know what's best for you and keep you with a doctor that's a bad fit. They have the resources to change your doctor, but they want your doctor to be a bad fit for you, so that you feel uncomfortable and have a hard time advocating for yourself giving them more power over your care. My current doctor has air quoted my symptons as if to say I don't have them. He essentially labeled me an addict in their system, though they were the ones who wouldn't listen to my opinion since it's my mental health and are the reason I even had to get what I needed for my panic attacks on my own. Their whole system should be investigated. I plan on figuring out who the supervisor there reports to or who has authority over this clinic and reporting them for countless breaches of the hippocratic oath and breaches of therapist client confidentialality, as well as, inproper treatment of patients.