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Bud Holcomb, MD

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LifeStance Health

Austin, TX

LifeStance Health

Austin, TX

LifeStance Health

Austin, TX

LifeStance Health

Austin, TX
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Bud Holcomb, MD
Austin Family Mental Health
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3625 Manchaca Rd 303 Austin, TX 78704
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Bud Holcomb, MD

Bud Holcomb, MD practices as a Psychiatrist in Austin, TX.
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Psychiatrist

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3625 Manchaca Rd 303, Austin, TX 78704
Services General psychiatry and group therapy is offered by the business owner. He supervises two nurse practitioners, Megan Banks, FNP, CYT and Ricki Robinson, PMHNP. You can find out noire about each of our providers on our website: www.austinfamilymentalhealth.com Additional Services General Psychiatry
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Don't let this shrink mess with your head!
There's a lot of issues in this practice. This m.d. takes in a patient base larger than he can handle. Yep, that's only one of the reasons for patients to be driving all around town to get a 30-day prescription. Every month. Every time.
The staff is overworked, and the patients are charged for anything under the sun, such as being five min. late for appointments, needing extra medication or canceling Group. Talking about Group, I wish we could skip that part, but it's impossible!
It starts with his group dynamics: he's not a certified group therapist.
So, in your very first sessions, he's the nicest person around. As he gets familiar with you, he bullies his patients (most of the times in a subtle way) when picking favorites while ganging up on the ones that he doesn't like or giving them no talking time. Talking or not, the patient still has to pay for the group session.
Sometimes he's not so subtle, i.e., when he bad talks patients when they're missing group or when - just plainly, he REFERS TO PATIENTS AS MONKEYS. It's degrading and condescending, as he’s is.
Other common scenarios: when a group member points out his mistakes, he turns the rhetoric around and blames the patient using broad, wide range statements such as is "you're JUST addressing the world with your angry way as always" or questioning the patient with "are you talking as you are now or the little 10-year-old that you used to be"? which is utterly patronizing and makes you regret that you had ever opened your mouth to confide on him about your troubles. Make no mistake, he will use any information in his arsenal about you to not address any of his shortcomings. No matter what the issue is, he takes NO responsibilities for anything, ever. He will always blame you, the patient.
Another cringe aspect of the group therapy is that the cancellation policy is non-existent. Once you're in, you pay for any and every session, regardless if you had/will have the session or not - and that includes the ones you wouldn't be able to attend and that you gave him weeks or even months of notice. In other words, there's NO cancellation for Group unless you figure out how to remove yourself from it completely.
On the clinical side, there are issues too. He's stuck on prescribing certain medications and dismisses patients feedbacks about side effects. If you want to change the medication he put you on, switch doctors. This one is NOT going to advocate on your behalf.
It's sad to say, but as Austin doesn't have enough psychiatrists to handle the demand, no action will ever be taken against him. Good luck with trying: he has a wide network of "friends" in every aspect that is important for keeping a business: the legal ones (lawyers), the PR/image ones (local celebrities, journalists, and Willie Nelson) and the political one (community mental health advocates, hospital admins, political parties).
Until Austin has more qualified mental health professionals, we just have to live with the old stereotype of just another doctor carrying around a God complex.
by Rajeed Phunjab xxx.xxx.230.97
July 07, 2017
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