Best Psychosomatic Medical Practitioner Grand Rapids Near Me

Monica Diaz: Experienced long lasting trauma from seeing this doctor & receiving an incorrect diagnosis. He spent very little time with me and gave me an informational piece of paper about a diagnosis he gave me. I have since seen caring and knowledgeable mental health care providers that have supported my health and wellbeing in a far more accurate and comprehensive way. This doctor has benefited from the high need for psychologists, rather than his own expertise, skill, and care for patients.

Jennifer Chapman-Cruz: I have known the whole staff over 23 years and there is nothing you can say bad about them. I appreciate all of them! They cared for me in my darkest hour with a priority-there was never a time that they acted shady or unfair! They are so caring, compassionate and always there for me!

Rick and Brenda Becker: Dr. Vander Velde's a truly caring person! The time it takes to get a diagnose, understand my needs and figuring out the appropriate medication, took so much energy for me but Dr. V was very patient, thorough and encouraging.

Ashley Blaauw: I had lost all hope until someone told me about this place! I love it and the PA is great to work with!

Carolyn Schroeder: Dr. VanderVelde is an empathic and caring man. He is also no-nonsense. If you are looking for someone to enable you to be unhealthy and non-compliant with your meds, don't go to him. He is THE most competent psychiatrist in Grand Rapids. I have referred many patients to him for 28 years.He runs late occasionally. However, that is sometimes due to emergent calls and ensuring patients' needs are met.

Leila: I have found that Dr. Vandervelde and his associates were very concerned for my health. They have helped me get through some tough times and allowed me to control my therapy and treatment as much as a patient is allowed. I am very happy with their care.

Deb Westveer: HE FIRED ME!!!I had been seeing Dr Vander velde for several years and never once was he ever on time. I'd schedule my appointments for the first one in the morning and still had to wait a half hour or more. I'm sorry but my time is important too. When waiting over a half hour for the first appointment of the day, I decided to reschedule for another time. I said that I thought it was rude and disrespectful that he was always late. (Every now and then I would be able to understand) I was told that he was back in his office reviewing files and would be out in a minute. I still chose to reschedule. By this time is was 45 minutes after my appointment. As I was leaving, I met him on the sidewalk coming in! and he wanted to discuss my mental health right there on the sidewalk!In the beginning of my next appointment he told me that he had over 800 patients and could not cater just to me. Then told me that I needed to find another psychiatrist and refused to give me any names of who I could call. "psychiatrists are in high demand in grand rapids so you probably want be able to find anyone." and then said he wouldn't be renewing my meds after a month.Very non professional. THIS PSYCHIATRIST COULD NOT HANDLE HIS CLIENTS FEELINGS .

Emma D. Anderson: I’ve been seeing him since 2012. Highly recommend.

Lanette Caudill: I had a really good experience. They helped me with medication for my issues and coordinated care with my physician.

Miren Lazzarini: Dr. Vandervelde really cares about his patients and truly has their best interests at heart. The front desk staff was a little rude but their are new employees that are very kind. They are great about rescheduling in my opinion, you just have to call in advance, not the same day, like any doctors office. Excellent psychiatry is incredibly difficult to come by in this city so he's worth the wait and won't tolerate patients no showing or same day rescheduling. Beautiful view from the office spaces too, right over the Grand River.

chris m: I'm sorry to hear others' experiences and perceptions of their care being inappropriate and mismanaged. It may not be the experience that others have had, but I've found the office staff to be helpful and friendly; the practitioner I see has been very empathetic and appropriately treating me for several years allowing me to be much more productive and less self-destructive. I feel that one of the reviews posted by someone unhappy with their care may have been based on their lack of insight rather than an objective assessment of psychiatric care.

Anonymous: I don't even know what to say. The office staff was much ruder than they needed to be, more than any doctors office I've been to. But the doctor was very out of touch and the visit was a waste of time. I've seen a few doctors before but this one looked at me, no questions asked, and made sure I knew my diagnosis. Said he has worked with "more bipolars than anyone in the city" ... so he must understand everything about all patients? He wouldnt let me talk or explain anything, just kept making sure he could talk (and repeat himself). I had been waiting to get refills for my medications from an actual psychiatrist and he refused to write any. Extremely unhelpful and felt like more of an interrogation than a doctor appt. This dude has zero empathy or respect for people with mental health problems.Their billing is messed up too. I got there and instead of paying my copay they tried to get me to pay the full thing -- which isn't what I was told when I set up the appt.

Theresa Bandkau: I tried to reschedule a cancelled appointment and mary, the new patient scheduler, was extremely rude, a real b**otch. Because "psychchiatrist are in demand", she would not reschedule even though my daughter had been sick and could not make the first appointment. They still charged me $50.00 for the missed appointment because it was the day of the appointment when I called. First appointment was scheduled in April, I called back in June after school was out and apparently the doctor was now not taking any new patients even though this would have been a reschedule. Not sure what the doc is like, but the scheduler should be sent for training on customer service. If you didn't have anxiety before you would after you spoke to her.

Issabela G.: I call this center for an apoiment the schedule new patient was extremly rude, she told me that she didn't have time for this, let me tell you this, don't waste your time! Just look for another clinic, they charge the same and they will be KIND