I have been seeing therapists since 1996 in many cities and states and I have had therapists with different degrees of training and experience. By far I have found Dr. Rayha to be the most unprofessional therapist I have ever encountered. She lacks the most fundamental skills a therapist should master including but not limited to listening, patience, professionalism, lack of political, social, ethnic, sexual and racial biases. As a professional in medical field myself, I expected the same basic level of ethics, morality, professionalism and responsibility from Dr Rayha and she failed in every single aspect. Her treatment of her clients brushes on being abusive herself. She is very abrasive, combative, unkind, and confrontational. She also suffers from OCD and exhibits the symptoms even in treatment of her clients. She constantly brings her own unresolved marital issues into the therapy and takes sides when treating couples. Simply as a reflection of her own self-hatred she often very critical of women and very much biased against them. Specifically in any legal or court proceedings she offers the most biased, unfair and unprofessional evaluations one can imagine. She leaves a lot to be desired in her personal interaction with her clients, with her skills, and more importantly her professionalism. Through her involvement with courts she exhibits a great deal of irresponsibility towards people's lives and enjoys the power in destroying those she dislikes. I find her not only extremely unprofessional, I am most disillusioned by having such individuals play such a sensitive roles in our justice system. I highly recommend against this therapist and believe she should be pursued legally. A few words of caution about her office. They have not heard about HIPPA! Your name and documents would be on display at a desk with an always-missing secretary. Go for Woodlands Family Institute. They are everything you need and Dr Rayha is not.
Cons: unprofessional, biased, impatient, abrasive, unkind, unethical
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