Long Island Consultation Center

They are the worst! If they can’t help you, they toss you out without explanation!!! No communication and and hung up on me! How is that help. This place is useless to society

I went to this place because I was having a recurring mental health problem that was not dealt with until age 26. I suffer from depression which I began getting treated from here. They label you as having an addiction even if that is not a reason you are visiting there. They push you into a group for «Newly Sober» individuals who are mandated by court to attend. Granted I did have legal issues but my reasons for coming here had nothing to do with it. I thought it would help my case, but it had no affect on it regardless. This place attempts to help but the staff are all former addicts and that is not encouraging. The doctors believe everyone in front of them is a drug or alcohol abuser, but truthfully if you are poor, young or old and you are struggling in life, a drink or two or whatever you use to cope does not make one an addict but you can’t explain that to them. I rather try their anger management group. This place is commutable in Queens, but the level of professional help is better sought some where else. Most that trample through this place are court mandated offenders and mentally challenged individuals. I digress. I will stick it out as I have had much worse experiences trying to get mental health help. Take your chances if you want.

My short visit here was not mandated and had nothing to do with a brush with the law or anything in that vein. I would have preferred the waiting room/​intake vibe to be a tad less «casual», but as far as non-​profits go, I certainly wouldn’t call the people at LICC unprofessional — and I can only imagine the gamut of personality types they must have to deal with on a regular basis.
Regardless, any and all frustrations I may have felt before intake were completely dispelled by the counselor Ms. Gail Copeland. She’s a consummate professional with a very down-​to-​Earth personality. I felt that I was being listened to, taken seriously and never judged. I won’t be returning for the sole reason that they don’t accept my coverage, but I couldn’t help adding my experience and four well-​deserved stars to even out the lopsided reviews. My feeling is that the people who are most and best served by this center are unfortunately also very unlikely to dedicate much of their energy to writing Unilocal reviews, making an accurate snapshot difficult to garner.

I saw the paltry one-​star rating for this place, and was inspired to chime in. This place has been a GREAT help to me emotionally after having my sense of self torn in two and stomped all over.
I came to them *freely*, with no legal problems, no obligation to come here whatsoever. I just needed help badly, after a very damaging time in my life. I came in here a complete mess, barely able to get dressed, and unable to stop crying, even in the waiting room. While it’s fair to say that time (a few months) has healed some of those wounds, this place has been very important in getting myself back to being a well-​functioning member of society.
What I’ve found here is nothing but caring support, well, and a lot of people who are here are DUI’s and other legal problems, but that doesn’t matter much except that you occasionally encounter someone who is very angry to be here.
I go here every week for therapy, attend groups, and see their psychiatrist. And get free metro-​cards to get here and back (with Medicaid.) What I see is a group of not crazy highly paid professionals, but ones who genuinely want to help you get better. Even the front desk staff is very nice, friendly, and playful. Just be nice to them, and you’ll get the same in return!

So disappointed with my decision coming to this s*itty place! The staff is completely unprofessional, rude and mostly discouraging! People make mistakes nobody is perfect, we all do… some different than others. Mandated counseling by courts, yet turned out the one doing the counseling had a problem himself, counseled a group got $ from something personal and went back to his habit! Are u serious?! Yet everyone kept quiet. lol plz.not everyone has an issue, some of us just took a step heading the wrong direction during that period! Wouldn’t recommend… EVER!!!

did you get a DUI and need to go through counseling? This place has some nasty counselors that make you feel like you’re an alcoholic and have huge problems, when all you really need is someone to help you through this frustrating time. this place totally screwed me over with their «2 absence limit». i honestly thought otherwise (3 absence limit. like every other place) and my counselor was just plain nasty about it, telling me that I must have drank some alcohol and wanted to avoid a meeting… I had a court date and had to go to work and couldn’t miss a full day… but no. they thought I was lying and didn’t even want to hear it. I even have the pink paper from court with the date on it… f*Cking jerks.
they don’t even deserve that one star.