Solace Counseling Associates

Solace counseling is a sham. Dr. Patel doesn’t care about recovery and his staff are rude and judgmental assholes. Bobby is the only caring one out of the entire place. Go somewhere else. Too expensive and the model that one size fits all for suboxone is not helpful for some addicts. You will only see him for less the five minutes when you’re paying well over three hundred a visit each week. Unless your poor and you are put in the back away from the private pay clients in the front in the nice waiting room. If you have money you don’t have to go to the meetings. Goes to show he doesn’t care about real recovery, just real cash.

Wow. I’m floored and still in shock. I just moved here and was looking for a doctor to help me taper off a benzodiazepine. After reading reviews about his experience with people who are addicted to prescriptions I decided to give Dr. Patel a try. I really want to get off this drug safely and with minimal withdrawl symptoms. With that being said I wanted to continue my slow taper from xanax which I have started about a month ago. I have tapered down to .25(the smallest pill) and wanted to do another 2 – 3 week stint at half that, then down to an eighth. I’ve done so much research on how to taper. Read the Ashton manual etc. I am pretty confident that this is the best way for me and my body. The minute I entered the office I just thought it was strange. People in and out of his office within 10 – 15 minutes. Red flag. Not that I like to spend a lot of time in a doctors office but usually you’re in there long enough to have a conversation about what’s going on. The moment I entered his room I guess he overheard me telling the receptionist to change my first name in the computer to the one I actually go by. He said that in here you are to go by your legal name no exceptions. Um ok? It’s just my first name. I thought he would greet me and shake my hand etc. The normal thing you do when first meeting a patient. He didn’t. He didn’t even ask what was going on. I tried to start out but instead of listening to what I had in mind or really letting me talk at all Dr. Patel read my notes from my prior visit with his nurse practitioner and decided I was a drug addict. The exact words I believe we’re «you’re acting like a drug addict» all because I requested to taper off a small amount. I am no drug addict. I want more than anything to be off of this med. It no longer serves me, it actually makes me sick. But I am not comfortable jumping from that high of a dose (even if it is the smallest pill). Anyone who’s been on a benzo and has experienced withdrawls would get what I’m saying. I don’t know if it was just a bad day or if maybe he is used to dealing with people who doctor shop for prescriptions. But I felt violated and insulted. No doc has ever treated me that way. It ended with him giving me a script for three more xanax pills and him telling me «Do it your way! Taper then if you think you’re so smart». Thanks you douche I think I will. And FYI just because you have a license doesn’t mean you’re a god. You’re not better than anyone, and if this way of treating people is the tactic you use then I feel sorry for you and anyone who crosses your path.

Dr. Patel is the best. He listens to your problems and doesn’t give you an excuse as to why you feel the way you do. I would recommend this place to anyone struggling with addiction or depression.

This is an amazing out-​patient detox with great group therapy. The doc is amazing and the therapist, Patti, is the most wonderful woman I’ve met.