Marian Camden, PsyD

This review should be a negative-​5 stars. YOU COULD DO NO WORSE than to use Dr. Camden for CFI/​PRE services. I was a paying client when Marian served as a CFI for my family. Over the course of several months, I had many one-​on-​one meetings and experiences with her and received her report for which I paid handsomely. I have extensive firsthand experience in working with Marian. During her interviews, she stated that she was going to use some experimental theories, and when it came time to show up in court, she made up a ridiculous reason for not appearing. Her report was very poorly written, haphazardly reasoned and the conclusions poorly supported.
Whatever you do, regardless of if you are the mother or father in a custody case, if you are getting a CFI or PRE evaluation done and the other attorney is recommending Dr. Camden, you should NOT agree to use her. There are many other CFI’s available, and based upon my experience as a customer of Marian’s, you would be very wise to avoid using her. Unlike the other reviewer shown on this page, I actually have other reviews and can prove that I am a real person writing a review based upon my personal experiences as a client of Marian’s. Four times now, someone (?) has flagged my reviews of Marian saying that I was not a client of Marian’s, even though Marian herself posted a response to my last review and said that she was sorry for my experiences with her. Marian is duplicitous at best, and I stand by my review that her work was harmful to our family. Ultimately, everything that Marian concluded was shown to be horribly inaccurate and thrown out by the Court. There are many better therapists out there, I would avoid this one.

Well, it never ever occurred to me to write a review about a therapist on Unilocal,but I recommended Dr. Camden to a friend of mine and she pointed out the only two reviews on Unilocal and said they were negative. In response, I had to write about my own experience because Dr. Camden has been nothing but helpful, kind, and effective for our family. We used her for two very different situations and she really was hands on and related beautifully to both my children and to my husband and I. She is extremely professional and responsive and she works in the best interest of her clients. There were two situations for our family in which she felt another professional would be better equipped to help and when that happened, she recommened the appropriate resourses. It made me very sad to see Unilocal ratings for a therapist — therapists are very personal and experiences with them cut to the core of who we are as people by nature. In my opinion, online ratings are completey inappropriate in this situation. It’s not like buying a car or getting your plumbing fixed.
Another interesting point? When I was recommending Dr. Camden to my friend, we were in the same room with another friend (we’re all work colleagues), and the 3^rd friend said that she (by chance) had had an experience with Dr. Camden as well in a completely different scenario and was also very vocal about recommending her.
Give her a call and talk to her — don’t let these negative reviews create bias for you. Finding the right therapist can be a challenge, but just because one doesn’t say exactly what you want to hear, doesn’t mean that they are not wonderful therapists.

My complaint against Dr. Camden is one of the five that reached the State Court Administrator’s Office and was two of the 60 per year dismissed by DORA as noted on page 3 of the Report for Reform of the CFI role —
. My child and family have been emotionally and financially abused by the system, rather than protected by it or DORA as noted in the report.
The website for comments to add your comments to support the Reforms is
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