After I got my records from James Garrett, in the hope to speak to Jenness Clairmont, Clinical Director of Samaritan Counseling, about it (she told me she’d speak to me after I got those records)…minutes later, while I was driving home from James Garrett’s office, I got a call from her saying that ‘your clinical … Continue reading “Your Clinical Relationship with Samaritan Counseling has Ended”
UPDATE (2018) James Garrett has been recorded as DECEASED by NYS Office of Professions. ARISE Network and NYS Office of Professions still suggest that it may be a case of ‘mistaken identity’. Samaritan Counseling and NYS Office of Professional Discipline have not acknowledged Garrett’s Class A Misdemeanor conviction in 2014. The state police must have … Continue reading NYS Office of Professions does not consider well-established knowledge of death to be reliable
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesunion-albany/obituary.aspx?pid=186101057 suggests that James A Garrett of Averill Park died July 11,2017. The obituary says that he “start[ed] multiple successful businesses in the addiction and recovery field and helping countless people better their lives through counselling and creation of new recovery pathways” I have only found one James Garrett LCSW on the NYS Office of … Continue reading How can New York State not know whether their licensed providers are alive or not?
This was shortly after being terminated from the 12-step outpatient rehab for complaining about the cost of drug tests and step one worksheets. That was never acknowledged by Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region. Months later, they said my claims to have done those things were ‘contradictory’ (regardless of the fact that I can … Continue reading What contract?
Please read the reviews of the ARISE Intervention method, and the comments. There are only two. But here are my concerns and comments about this, a search for ARISE on my website. http://notpowerless.com/?s=arise
UPDATE 10/31/18: This is new information that Samaritan Counseling should have been aware of (and possibly were) during the years they have spent censoring and ignoring my concerns… CR-00249-13 – James A. Garrett – plead guilty to Offer File False Instrument 2nd, a class A misdemeanor in full satisfaction. On 7/21/14 a sentence of $500 … Continue reading James Garrett LCSW-R — It ‘Works’ if You’re Paying Him, He Makes You Pay if You Don’t
Investigator Patrick Flynn told me on the phone when he was closing out my case that 1. My therapist denied everything so it was “he said she said” and 2. ‘We don’t look into the AA thing’. So, after three attempts at getting New York State to acknowledge a very serious problem with two-hatting therapists … Continue reading New York State Education Department Investigator Admits Policy of Willful Negligence
It’s hard to understand why Samaritan Counseling believes this is the best treatment, and why their accrediting organization Samaritan Institute also does not seem to see any need to address the issue. I’d think most state-licensed mental health professionals would/should see a serious problem with this. update Jan 20 2020: Samaritan Institute is now called … Continue reading The Treatment Samaritan Counseling / Samaritan Institute Believes in
update Jan 20 2020: Samaritan Institute is now called Solihten Institute. We have over 140 complaint notes, petition signatures, and letters asking health workers to acknowledge the problems with 12-step coercion in therapy, the rehab industry, and Alcoholics Anonymous itself as the ‘preferred mode of treatment’. It has proven all too often to cause psychological … Continue reading Letters and Petition Sent to NASW-NY, NYS EDUCATION COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, SAMARITAN INSTITUTE
This page in the ARISE book, from 2006, shows the acknowledged options for ‘treatment’ through coercive ‘interventions’, not just for drug and alcohol abuse, but for pretty much everything. Yet, as early as the mid-eighties and early nineties, there was such strong criticism of the 12-step approach, enough so to form alternative organizations and strategies … Continue reading Resources in 2006