Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Manassas

“Poor experience with Claudette Gadson. Always pressured to make an appointment at the end of our session. The attempts continue 4 to 5 times until I submit even though I continuously stress that making an appointment at the ti.e.is causing me severe anxiety. Poor practice, therapist and something therapist should reconsider doing to their patients. Don't bully your patients into seeing you please. Update 02/06/2026. 4 days after the appointment and 1 day after Thriveworks response, Claudette Gladson decided to send me an email (noticbly after she was informed of the review) expressing that I need to immediately seek medication management from my psychiatrist and had a "high level" of care contact me without my constant. Showing clear retaliation and a clear breach of her ethical duties in both situations. This type of torment should not be displayed towards patients, which is evident was for her personal gain and attempted protection. Let's be serious, if she was really concerned about me, she would have expressed it after the appointment. So if she did have concerned after the appointment, she failed he job by reaching out to me days later. However, this was obviously not the cause as it was attempted retaliation after the review was made on Google Maps. Thriveworks have been very slow to resolve my concerns and the concerns I have about how she treats her patients. I will be taking my ethical concerns with evidence to the licensing board for further review. Thriveworks has even chose to charge me for the appointment, even though Claudette behaved unethical in two situations,.one at the appointment and another 4 days later which has left me in turmoil. I was not experiencing this before my last appointment with her. My advice is to stay away from the practice all together and patient care and ethical behavior is not a concern for this company.”

“Good insight and attention by the therapist. Felt comfortable to share information about some of my issues that I'm experiencing in my relationship. Scheduled another session with the therapist.”

“Such a difficult experience trying to help my anxiety and be medicated. If anything this place only heightened my anxiety attacks because of how stressful the appointments are like you’re being interviewed and if you even dare try to cancel the services they charge you $160 what kind of scam is that. Just because I want to leave because you’re not helping me with anything you charge me an insane fee to try to convince me to stay? This just convinced me that it’s better for me to stay un medicated than deal with this mess of a place.”

“Ms. Gadson has been such a life changer for me since I’ve been meeting with her I’ve been communicating better and navigating through life’s challenges… I Thank God for my therapist such a good listener, communicated with patience and understanding ,also has given me tools to be able to control my emotions. Thank you so much. We need more therapists like Ms Gadson”