LifeStance Health, Portland OR

The team is very helpful and understanding. I highly recommend if you are looking for mental health care.

My therapist was constantly 10 minutes or more late to our meetings. One time she was 15 minutes late, so I left the Zoom call and I ended up getting a $75 fee for "missing" the appointment. Not okay.

Aside from working with a practitioner who left after two visits, working with lifestance has been great.

So far I have been impressed and overwhelmed because I feel seen and heard. I'm looking forward to continuing with a plan for the future! Thank LifeStance! Thank you Lacey!

My therapist is the best! It's taken a long time to get one that fits me as well as she does. She definitely makes me feel that I'm finally on the right track. A bit of a high turnover rate for psychiatrist's, but I don't feel it'll be a long term problem.

Lacy Evans is wonderful! She listens and truly cares about her patience. I would happily refer her to anyone looking for help.

I love my new NP Eva Cicilian! She is engaging, positive (but not too positive), is easy to talk to and offers helpful information.

Providers are friendly and have worked with me diligently to help me with my mental health, being flexible with scheduling within my very busy life. I feel supported in all aspects of my mental health, from talking sessions to medications. I am very thankful for this organization! ️

It's the 20s and everyone needs to be seeing a therapist on the regular. I'm incredibly lucky to be seeing the one I am.

This was my first zoom appointment with Eva Cicilian Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. She was very open, professional and non-judgmental. Lifestance is very organized in establishing care, easy prompt communication, and the staff is very receptive. I feel very secure and fortunate.

I had a disappointing experience with a therapist via tele-health. This happened in 2021 and I needed a lot of time to process it. I'm not going to file an official complaint or name them, but I do want to warn others about how therapy can potentially harm clients. I saw this therapist virtually almost weekly for about a year and a half. What ended up being our last session went like this. The therapist waited until the end of the session to bring up a topic that they knew would upset me. After I became distressed they judged me harshly about something which completely caught me off guard. The therapist actually laughed at me and forced me into an argument that I was not prepared for. The therapist seemed to enjoy this interaction and acted extremely careless, smug and passive aggressive. In the past if the therapist wanted to challenge me they would kindly say so, but that didn't happen this time. I felt like I was being cornered and victim blamed. The therapist’s tone and approach was very different from what I had gotten used to. After our quick argument it was time to end the session and we both said goodbye. I knew that this would be our last interaction because I no longer felt safe with this person. I also want to mention that we had planned to meet in person for the first time for the next session, so they did this knowing how awkward our first in person session would be. It felt like a weird power play in order to put me on the defensive. I decided to access their notes about me and read through them. Not surprisingly the note about the last session didn't mention the argument at all, but it did acknowledge my emotional dysregulation, which they helped initiate. This was helpful information for me because it told me that this therapist will do things in session that they will selectively leave out of their notes, and this is completely legal. I think it's reasonable for me to feel unsafe in that type of situation. Also, I noticed many things in the notes that were just not true. The therapist was filling in the blanks based on limited information and pushing their own narrative about me. Who would benefit from this? Looking back there were many things the therapist did that were unprofessional and unhelpful. They often talked down to me as if I were a child, or someone with limited intelligence. They noted I had "Average Intelligence" so my guess is that they decided to treat me with a low level of respect meant for someone who is just not smart enough to notice it. Looking back I realized that I let a lot of things slide because I didn't understand how disrespectful they were at the time. I believe that many people who have experienced emotional abuse would agree that this is a common problem for them. I was really struggling and didn't have the capability to manage the therapist’s professionalism as well as my own unpredictable intense emotions. Other unprofessional behavior included the following. The therapist rolled their eyes at me many times. They would often talk to me in a condescending and patronizing tone. Their phone would usually ding each session and they would check it. One time they asked me if I slept with clothes on or off and the conversation didn’t go anywhere or have a point. They forgot things that I had told them and I had to repeat myself many times which was frustrating. I believe the therapist summed me up, didn’t pay close attention to details and decided to put me in my place. I understand that it is up to me to work on myself, especially when I have access to a lot of free information and tools. What I learned from this particular therapist is that people including mental health professionals will treat you with the level of disrespect that you allow. A note to therapists, please understand that just because you have knowledge, training and credentials that doesn’t mean trust is assumed, it still needs to be earned. You are treating very vulnerable and traumatized people and doing the bare minimum is just not good enough.

Sharon is amazing and really took the time to listen to me and give insight. She is a very thoughtful and caring therapist.

I absolutely love everything about Lifestance Health. My therapist is great and I use telehealth so I don’t have to go anywhere. I plan on continuing with them for a long time. I would recommend them to anybody especially family members if they needed. I feel safe and heard and understood with life stance health.

I really enjoyed working with life stance, they have a ton of different types of therapists and services, I never have any issues with insurance or billing. I also really appreciate the care I’ve been given.

Scott Martin here My experience with life stance Health it's been extremely positive the therapists are very professional and helpful they're non-judging approach is very comforting I'm very appreciative of life stance Health My experience overall has been really good

Working with the team at Lifestance Health has been very easy, and they have always been very responsive and kind. I’ve had two different therapists with them, and I’ve felt very good about both of them. I would definitely recommend them to anyone who is interested in finding a therapist. I’ve exclusively been in zoom therapy sessions, and it has always worked well for me.

Amazing place to have someone to confide in w/out any judgement or conflict but with compassion that shows thru there work they provide.
Best & True Regards,
C. R.