Psychiatric Services LLC

Sam Eich _{on Google}

Dec 17th, 2023

Avoid at all costs! Not sure if this is a legit business or scam.. my wife has been "attempting" to work with Brenda Johnson for almost 3 years now. Her mental health has not improved and has actually declined since seeing Brenda. Brenda pays 0 attention to what clients say in therapy sessions, charges an insane amount for services (wife has state insurance and somehow is out of network? Brenda could care less though.. money is more important than her patients), and does not help clients in a timely manner. Her so called assistant Daniel is even worse than Brenda. Can not provide updated bills, return calls in a timely manner, and is just all over the place 24/7. Overall wish i could rate this place 0 stars. Absolutely terrible experience for my wife and I. Please do yourself a favor and find a REAL psychiatrist. Not some glorified drug dealer like Brenda who could care less what happens to you or your family members..

Nowhere Man _{on Google}

Sep 21st, 2018

Brenda knows what she is doing. She is very non judgemental and intelligent. I haven't felt this good in years.

Prism _{on Google}

Apr 25th, 2018

Brenda is one of the few doctors in Brookings who cares about her patients and continues to educate herself concerning her field of medicine. Most doctors don't care about how you feel and refuse to prescribe tests needed to identify root causes even if you ask for them.
Brenda works with each patient as an individual to help them until they feel good, function and can do all of the things that they used to. This could be medication, therapy or finding treatment for the causes of depression. She is even helping my wife to diagnose and treat her Hashimoto's because low thyroid causes depression. Before her we hadn't been able to find a doctor who knew anything more about thyroid treatment than to run a TSH test and tell their patients that they were fine regardless of their symptoms and even if they were too sick to work. Many doctors get kickbacks for proscribing Synthroid so they refuse to give any sort of test which could prove that a patient's thryoid problem needs to be solved with a different medication.
In my opinion Brenda is one of the best practitioners in town and the negative reviews here were left by people who didn't actually get treatment from her.