Legacy Behavioral Health Center - Port St. Lucie

“Don’t take your children here! The office personnel are lazy, uninformed, and have no clue what’s going on. It took us 2 months to get a call for therapy for one of our daughters after my divorce. Instead of getting to us within a timely manner and assign a counselor, they offered a counselor to one of my other children we did not request anything for. The meds dr reads your child’s file every time you go in and rude. There’s been a few times we started to head there, she would call and want to do it over the phone to go home. Once we arrived just read the file and off you go. Horrible place!!!!!”

“Extremely dissatisfied with the care at Legacy Behavioral Health. These psychiatrists do not have time to actually be doctors; they only have time for 15-minute assembly-line appointments so the clinic can make money. All they do is take notes and push the absolute baseline prescriptions to protect their licenses, rather than treating the actual patient. I brought new research regarding a medication to help my 26-year-old autistic son sleep. Because the psychiatrist was unfamiliar with it, he flat-out refused it. A real doctor would have taken the time to do their own research and follow up with a proper medical opinion. Instead, he told me to find a new psychiatrist or beg a primary care doctor to prescribe it. It is incredibly unprofessional to abandon a patient just because you don't want to look outside your narrow comfort zone. Now I am forced to find a new provider because this one cares more about watching the clock than helping his patients. Avoid this place if you want actual, individualized healthcare.”

“This review is specifically for Nurse Johnson. My daughter had an appointment with her today for an evaluation. She is usually seen by Dr. Chahal, but due to limited availability, we were scheduled with Nurse Johnson. From the very start of the meeting, her demeanor came across as stern and aggressive. I made it clear that my daughter is on the autism spectrum and had just returned home, and that the topics being discussed were sensitive and would require a level of empathy and care. Despite this, Nurse Johnson continued to question my daughter in a way that felt more like an interrogation than a supportive evaluation. It lacked compassion and made my child visibly uncomfortable. Children with mental health challenges, especially those on the spectrum, need to feel safe, heard, and understood—not pressured. Unfortunately, the lack of empathy and appropriate approach caused the session to end abruptly. We have since rescheduled with Dr. Chahal. We have been patients at Legacy for over two years, and this was our first experience like this. It was very disappointing.”

“Mrs. Johnson is great at her job! She noticed something my daughter said, more than once, that I missed, and she continues to explain everything in a way that both of us can understand. I'm very grateful, thank you”