So let me get this straight…
Robin Williams went to 12-step Rehab Then AA Meetings Shortly Before Suicide
They did not help him. He was not a dishonest or defective person. But that’s what they told him he was.
HealthGrades Doing the Next Right Thing (Really) – Jenness Clairmont blocks Healthgrades profile.
Hope they are not removing mine!
Dear HealthGrades,
Shortly after I gave a negative rating for this provider, several more positive ratings were posted to improve the overall rating. There was no activity before that or since, until today when I thought I might try to rate her again, but then was told that filing a complaint with you might be a better way to keep the system useful. I suspect these ratings were artificially improved to undermine a very legitimate complaint that I have been trying to make against her. Is there any way you can remove ratings coming from the same IP which might have all been by her?
She is a member of the state licensing board (NYS DoE Office of Professions) that I complained to about her behavior at Samaritan Counseling Center. Her organization has had my Yelp reviews removed and Yelp account disabled. I have not been able to get a review of their organization to stick. They always find a way to undermine it.
Tom Gleason
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Dear Tom Gleason,
Thank you for contacting Healthgrades.
Healthgrades appreciates your patience during the investigation process that you’ve requested. The resolution of this investigation is resulting removal of 4 surveys that did not meet Healthgrades business criteria on Jenness Clairmont’s profile. This will take up to 2 business days to update on our website.
Respectfully,
Mike | Healthgrades Support Team
Survey Compliance Analyst
Dear Tom Gleason,
Thank you for your interest in HealthGrades.com and for your suggestion.
HealthGrades is constantly researching additional data elements for inclusion within our site. Thank you again for your suggestion.
Thank you,
Michael | Healthgrades Support Team
This whole situation is so fucked up
“This whole situation is so fucked up” – Oona Edmands LCSW
Never Recommend AA…
David Olsen Throwing His Supervisee Under the Bus and Making it Difficult to Get My Damn Records
Mr Gleason:
As per regulations I need the request in writing with a signed release
Thank you
David,
Here is my written request, with the zip code corrected. 
Please send me my records and a bill for them, and I’ll send you a check.
Tom
I don’t know what that means. Please explain. I’ve asked you for my records and provided my address. Here is my release. <----
Mr Gleason:
I received your release. Unfortunately, you were never a patient of mine so if you want your record released for your sessions with Oona Edmands, please resend,
David Olsen
Oddly enough, I saw a statement saying that I was getting sessions from Jenness Clairmont.(I never did)
“OK, please send me Oona’s email address so that I can send her my release.”
Mr. Gleason,
You can send the letter to my attention but change the fact the records you are requesting was for your therapy with Oona.
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Why am I not allowed to send the release to her?
I am not a patient of yours. Connect me with Oona please.
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Who can I contact at Samaritan that is not you? You are deliberately trying to make my life difficult and I never did anything wrong in therapy. Send me the email of somebody else please.
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Mr. Gleason,
As I have stated several times we will be happy to have your clinical record sent to you once I receive a letter (hard copy – not email) formally requesting your clinical record.
I will send you hard copy of this emai as well.
All correspondance must be by mail. I will not be responding to any further emails.
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Apparently he’s never heard of Ctrl-P…
I faxed my request according to their requirements.
FYI, he would have rejected RocketLawyer’s document as well (after I went to the trouble of sending it snail mail), because my date of birth was required to be on the document. (Information that the Office Manager Debbie was willing to give. She also gave us a fax number so I didn’t have to find envelopes and stamps and a printer. Who the fuck uses a fax machine these days? But I figured it out with myfax.com ).
Check out this blast from the past, when I tried to get my complaint to all three of them (David Olsen, Jenness Clairmont, and Oona Edmands). David told me to send it only to him and that made my alarm go off:
Lastly, it has come to our attention that multiple copies of your letters were received by the center. One of which was not by use of the US Postal Service or any third party delivery system. I was apparent that the letter had been hand delivered to our satellite office in Delmar, NY. As a result, this letter is also being written to inform you that under no circumstances will any further personal contact with the center, its satellites or its personnel be allowable.
No, a client with a legitimate complaint cannot be banned from telling the organization’s members about what’s going on. That’s not a healthy boundary, David Olsen.
Tradition Three – Emotional Blackmail
Here is the story of Alcoholics Anonymous’ emotional blackmailing of Ed, the atheist, who nearly committed suicide after being abandoned by “Friends of Bill”
AA – How it Works
“One poor chap committed suicide in my home. He could not, or would not, see our way of life.” – Bill Wilson, Chapter One of the Big Book of AA
“Jennifer from Saint Peters Addiction Recovery Center [12-step rehab] called to say that she had had a ‘frustrating session’ with client and requested a consultation with me. I returned call and left message” – Oona Edmands, Samaritan Counseling LCSW 2/7/14
“Client called and left message stating that he wished I would not recommend AA (as I had in my letter) as he felt it deeply contributed to his confusion. Message was cut off after two minutes. Did not return call” – Oona Edmands, Samaritan Counseling LCSW 3/20/14
“Therapists have the right to their preferred mode of treatment” – David Olsen, Executive Director of Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region May 2014
Notice how she mentions that this is under David Olsen’s direction, because she knew that she needed to cover her ass because this is criminal, though her job was at stake over it. This is emotional blackmail. This letter was sent to me a day after I left a message telling my therapist that I liked talking to her because she had at one time allowed me to question AA. The counselor at SPARC, the rehab I was referred to, told me it would not be therapeutic to discuss my issues with the Step One worksheet I was given at SPARC.
How Suicide Works (for Alcoholics Anonymous)
Why does it never occur to anyone in AA or the rehab industry that calling yourself insane, defective, and powerless all the time, and even moreso when God isn’t magically removing a desire to drink, might be what led to that last guy’s suicide or overdose? Instead, they use the person’s death to reinforce illogical faith in the cult.