Portage Path Behavioral Health - Cuyahoga Falls

“Been going here for many years for medication management. Office staff has become largely incapable of figuring out screenings process or offering solutions when it’s their errors for medication and will not return calls or give helpful advice until long after you’ve ran out of medications. Absolutely unprofessional and truly irritating.”

“I have Roxanne as my therapist and Julie as my psychiatrist. I have what I consider to be the most fantastic women duo to help guide me through achieving a sense of normalcy and to give me the tools to lead a happy, healthy and bright life. Julie has really been the most fantastic psychiatrist I have ever had. She has truly done so much for me such as giving me a correct diagnosis and the best medications I could be on that have changed my life exceptionally. Julie also got me into a a group therapy program at portage path. Her getting me into that program impacted me so greatly that I felt well enough to enroll in college and work towards goals in my life. She also cares about my physical health and helped me understand the importance of caring for my body properly. She has changed my life. Roxanne has been the first therapist I have ever truly deeply connected with on a level I find difficult to achieve with any of the ones I have ever had before personally. She is also the first to look into my body image/trauma and support me through my journey of healing and body acceptance, instead of just telling me to "eat a salad" like my past therapists have. Her passion she has in seeing her clients thrive shines through every session we have together and I am so thankful everyday to have had her as my therapist. Both of these women have saved my life, I hope to work with them for as long as possible, I have had nothing but wonderful experiences and unconditional support from them. I am eternally grateful! My life has changed for the better and I'm the healthiest mentally I have ever been in my life.”

“I wish I could rate it higher, and even 3/5 might be a stretch. My first therapist there was.......awkward. They essentially sat there silently 95% of the time and it felt super uncomfortable. After several months they ended up leaving and I was placed with my current therapist who is absolutely amazing, she's been incredibly helpful and the experience is a night and day difference. I had a similar situation with the psychiatrist side of things. The first one was a guy who dismissed a lot of my concerns, had me on medication I later found out I shouldn't have been out on that led to some health problems. I spent most of the time on these medications barely able to do anything in my day to day due to all of them having sedative effects. (A concern I'd brought up several occasions but got brushed off, along with telling them I didn't feel it was helping much outside the fact I wasn't awake enough in a day/was too tired to feel/process much of what I struggle with). My last appointment with them resulted in me speaking up even harder about concerns and things regarding my disability application and such I had a hearing coming up for, and the attitude he had towards it led to having an anxiety attack where he then proceeded to push and push that I needed to do something to calm myself down and I ended up leaving while having a full breakdown. Soon after that he went against a policy of theirs and, in short, put on my file that I fake everything which my next psychiatrist after that had to have removed from there because she even felt he was entirely wrong on that judgement. She however was a very good psychiatrist and helped a lot, including with helping me get off the medications and dosages I shouldn't have been on and also helped me with getting my Austism diagnosis. (Which btw they don't really handle that at this location so don't try that, I just massively lucked out there). Unfortunately coming off the medications and dosages I was on led to heavy withdrawal symptoms that led to me having ulcers. Unfortunately she is no longer there and I don't particularly trust seeing anyone else for a psychiatrist there given the first experience I had with this location.”

“I see Julie Ashkar for medication management and she's top notch. She really listens to me, takes me seriously, and makes it very easy to advocate for myself. I'm extremely happy with her and I've been seeing her for years. I've seen therapists at this location, like Cindy and Sean, they're both fantastic and insightful. And case manager Mark was EXTREMELY helpful. They work on a sliding scale so that's a huge plus for me. Front desk people are sweet as hell, shout out Meghan ! Highly recommend this place”