ServicesTodd Marvin D Phd offers counseling at 2740 Fulton Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95821 in Sacramento, CA.
Please call Todd Marvin D Phd at (916) 973-8994 to schedule an appointment in Sacramento, CA and to get more information about the counseling services offered.
I strongly recommend you not hire him.. I experienced Dr. Marvin Todd, of Sacramento, CA, as a narrow-minded ideologue, a disrespectful know-it-all. He refused to listen. He regularly interrupted me about every 3rd sentence. He dismissed me, saying "No! It isn't true!", and "Whatever you just said!" He regularly wasted my time and money with trivial disclosures covering everything: his family, his friends, neighbors, and something about a dog. He was highly confrontational, plowing right through client boundaries, client protests, leaving one feeling injured and betrayed. He would agree to your description of what he did, but never apologizes nor admits that he'd done anything wrong. Thus you're left with the impression that he considers it his right to act this way, notwithstanding your protests or boundaries. He showed no empathetic concern. He repeatedly insisted that there is nothing wrong with a family member who beat other family members nearly to unconsciousness for years. I get that a client's negative thinking can cause problems. It does NOT follow that EVERY problem is CAUSED by the client's negative thinking. I get that positive thinking can make a difference. It does not follow that this is the only difference that can be made. If it were so, than therapists could be replaced with cheer leaders and pep rallies. Dr. Todd of Sacramento (there are others by this name elsewhere in the country) wielded an ideological hammer, pounding on me as if to drive me into his dogma. This is not therapy. It is indoctrination into his narrow ideology. If cognitive behaviorism is modeled after Socratic dialogue, than Dr. Todd fails this completely. Socrates didn't interrupt and fail miserably to listen. The opposite is true: you can't discuss or dialogue without truly listening. Therefore he can not hide in some interpretation of cognitive theory or technique. Failure is failure, and his approach is the opposite of the Socratic dialogue it ought to be. "... When men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom