John C Osborne, LCSW

Sounds like Mr. Osborne is a better therapist than mediator. I am in the same profession and have never heard of a mediator that agreed to no phone calls (during each custodial time) for any child much less a toddler. He is out of his league with high conflict situations and quite honestly made things worse. There were serious accusations made and he was unable to properly assess safety of child involved. The damage done will never be undone.

John was totally ineffective in dealing with our high conflict divorce. My spouse was continually dishonest with a history of abusive behavior and John was unable to be of any help at all. He had no ability to see through her dishonesty, continually acquiesced to her demands, and condemned me for being frustrated with his ineffective process.

John saw my son many years ago, when the family was going thru a bad time, and I was worried about my 8 year olds behavior. He met with us (parents) once, and son a couple times. I was disappointed at the time that he did not tell us what happened between him and my son, (professional confidentiality for an 8 year old…) but the outcome was a REMARKABLE change in behavior. My son seemed settled and happy, able to accept what we were going thru. We were fine for another decade. Whatever he did at the time helped my son process the changes, diffused his anger, and helped him cope in a very mature way. Now 10 years later… with a sullen irritable non-​communicative teen… John, we need you again!

I find it interesting that all the bad reviews of John have been removed. I thought Unilocal was an honest way of saying what you think of someone. Apparently not. Interesting how only the good comments remain and the rest of the bad ones removed. My husband had the unfortunate run in with Mr. Osborne handling the child custody case. He is not familiar with Parental Alienation Syndrome and it was echoed here on two other reviews. My husband received an email stating they were removing his review which was an honest review. When we checked they also removed the other negative reviews. Very interesting!

I don’t usually write reviews but after seeing the 1 star review I feel the need to speak on John’s behalf. He worked with my daugther when she first started grade school and we started seeing social challenges. John is kind, thoughtful and compassionate and absolutely bright, qualified, insightful and intelligent. My husband and I found his help and guidance to be invaluable. It saddens me that someone would publish such a harmful (and unbelievable) accusation that John was flirting with a client based on heresay from his daughter who is in what seems to be a difficult situation.
The reason I was looking at this Unilocal review is because I am referring him to a friend so I was looking for his contact information. Rest assured, John is very capable.

John is incredible. He is calm, friendly, nonjudgmental, solidly objective demeanor, even in the face of stressful situations… he is a professional. His intelligence and experience have been an incredible resource for my ex and I.
I obviously don’t know the situation of the previous reviewer but knowing John (a dozen or so visits on various issues) and knowing that in custody/​divorce situations that emotions can lead to crazy things that he had some judgment/​opinion against him which I know is very upsetting. However, John in an expert in the interpersonal/​relationship/​emotional components of families, divorces, children. If there was an issue w/​a college fund or contempt of court that is a job for an attorney or some other type of counselor… not a family therapist. I can’t say much about the allegations in the post originate except to point out that they are observations by a child and filtered through the author.