Shamie M A MD Psychiatric Counseling Ctr of Pasdna

After being diagnosed with PTSD. After my horrific attack at work as a MTA bus operator, lastyear January 2014, by a passenger who was arrested and charged with 245pc on a bus operator and now serving a 3 yrs jail sentence she accepted. I was introduced to a phenomenal psychiatric Dr. Shamie. I was referred to him by my chiroprator, another phenomenal Dr. Ali Deni. I didn’t know who to trust after my prior visits with the workers compensation phycologist, I was seeing for 2 months. Dr. Frazier, who wasn’t for my best interests, he was for the insurance company, they fabricated lies after I poured my heart out, briefing and explaining to him and staffs the horrific attack, I’ve experienced at work. Instead they twisted my entire story. Imagine how defeated and livid I felt. I kept contemplating each and everyday with this horrific incident. It took me a while to realized that I was only a badge number to MTA, because the employers categorized me as the suspect instead of the victim. Driving was my passion and my livelyhood, something I loved to do was taken wrongfully from me. A experience I thought I would take to my grave.
Not until I started seeing Dr. Shamie in April 2014, he made me realize that I am the victim and a human being. Predominantly Dr. Shamie is truly a skilled psychiatric, he gave me access to numerous benificial skilled techniques on how to work on the severe emotional distress and negative memories such as dreaming, flashbacks and nightmares, along with negative mood changes, thinking process and my emotional reaction, my overall mind, body and soul, which is very resourceful along with priscribed medication that helps as well.
Anyone who suffered from PTSD or any effects of trauma in this type of horrific experience. I certainly highly recommend Dr. Shamie, he has over 54 yrs experience, well trained to council his patients and victims. Dr. Shamie understands the devastating effects of trauma. I’m finally grateful and thankful to God to have found a phenomenal Dr. along with staffs that understands the main care I needed, was to be kind to myself and stop seeking clarity from the company or anyone. I am still under Dr. Shamie care, it’s not a easy task, I’m continuing to learn how to work on my memory loss and healing process to overcome this horrific attack. If it wasn’t for Dr. Shamie, I wouldn’t know how I was going to be able to work on letting go from this horrific trauma.

Do not go to this guy. Not only is the staff incompetent and rude, Dr. Shamie was rude, ignorant and treated me like I was some junkie on my first visit with him. I have been taking the same medication for 15 years and because of a change in health insurance, I was forced to find a new doctor and decided to try Dr. Shamie.
As soon as he opened my file, he was judgmental and untrusting of my medication history. He hastily tried testing me throughout his eval, as if he was accusing me of my condition. After his eval, he decided to deny me of the medication I have been taking for years, and suggested a less effective alternative that hasn’t been in the market for very long. He basically said if I don’t go with his crappy alternative then I should go elsewhere. I told him I’m not comfortable with new drugs and he handed me a sample pack and sent me on my way.
I don’t know about any of you, but I do not need a doctor to deny me something that has been working for me half of my life nor try to shove some alternative crap down my throat (that he didn’t even explain!)
If you want a helpful, polite and serious doctor, do not even waste your time going into see this guy. My visit with Dr. Shamie was hands down the worst psychiatrist experience I’ve ever had (and I have been to many doctors over the years.) A note to dr. Shamie– I don’t believe you’re an actual doctor.

4÷3÷2015
Dr. Shamie is truly a world class Psychiatrist. He is a very gifted doctor. Both of my younger sons have experienced serious mental health problems. One son has Bipolar Disorder and the other has Schizoaffective Disorder. The first son was in high school when he was diagnosed with the Bipolar Disorder. This was an extremely difficult time for my wife and I. Unfortunately, a few years later the other son was diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder when he was in High School. It is not been an easy life for my wife or myself as both of our younger sons had a serious mental illness. [I do not even know of another family that has TWO children with a serious mental illness.]
Fortunately, we were referred to Dr. M. A. Shamie. He has been our sons’ Psychiatrist for well over a decade. Dr. Shamie is an extremely gifted Psychiatrist. He has a depth of knowledge on the various medications as well as many years of experience in dealing with these types of problems. I am totally amazed at his calming presence. I have had many very difficult experiences as a parent and Dr. Shamie has gone ‘the second mile’ in order to help my wife and I. For example, one of my sons was taking a class at Citrus Community College and he got quite agitated. I picked him up at Citrus and he threatened to kill me. What do you do? Drive straight to the police station? I decided to drive straight to Dr. Shamie’s office in Pasadena. Obviously, we did not have an appointment but Dr. Shamie calmly took care of the situation.
At various times, each of my sons have been stopped and handcuffed by the police. For example, an individual told the local police that my son was observed doing an inappropriate action. Did anyone else see anything? No. Was any property damage done? No. But, the police came and arrested my son and took him to jail. We had to get an attorney and go to court many times. However, Dr. Shamie came to our rescue and wrote a detailed letter for the Judge. That letter from Dr. Shamie made all the difference as a lot of the policemen have little to zero knowledge of mental illness. [A brief two-​minute conversation with either my son or myself would have quickly resolved that misunderstanding. But, sometimes police just assume that you are guilty and then you have to prove your innocence.]
At various times, each of my sons has been at Las Encinas Hospital as well as the Della Martin Center (Huntington Hospital). Unfortunately, this has happened more than once. It was a little bit awkward celebrating Christmas Day at the Della Martin Center. However, Dr. Shamie faithfully saw each of my sons and Dr. Shamie’s assistance was greatly appreciated.
My sons are still patients of Dr. Shamie. Both of my sons are doing very well today. My wife and I are extreme grateful for Dr. Shamie’s help and we’d be happy to recommend Dr. Shamie to anyone. He is a very kind and patient doctor.

Truly a star of a physician. He is conscientious, caring and took wonderful care of A family member who saw him. This family member had severe issues that no one else was able to diagnose or treat. He helped this man get back to his family and have a productive life.

I Have a severe case of bipolar disorder with periods of mania also periods of depression in the last few years its been getting worse I think its has something to do with my tyroid problem my doctors from my hmo plan have not been able to get me stable with my meds I have to many down days i thank god a friend recommend me to Dr Shamie he works with Las Encinas Hospital a wonderful Hospital.
Erik R 9÷19÷14

I was referred to this office by my attorney:
Receptionist are incompetent. One was unable to look into my file and tell me the dates I had seen the Dr. She told me bluntly that she had other things to do and other clients to help! Wow. As if I’m not a client. When I tell the Dr that his receptionist talked to me like that, he sounded as if he was going to take care of my problem… wrong. Receptionist calls me and tells me that I’m bugging the Dr too much? Really. I would NEVER recommend your offices to people I know. You won’t feel like a client, you are just a number that does not matter.
In every single one of my appointments, I was waiting for at least an hour to two hours to see him. Whats the point of making appointments? If your office cant take care of your clients, hire a new staff.