Roland Y. Kim PhD review: psychotherapy

Arrogant therapist with lack of competence and respect for others.

As a self-proclaimed reputable therapist, Roland failed to perform his professional duties as a licensed psychotherapist:

Administrative duties:
- Failing to ensure necessary paperwork was provided and/or properly done in a timely manner. Despite such negligence, he refused to take the responsibility and shifted the blame on me.
- Not providing a receipt for counseling sessions in a timely manner.

Therapy:
- Creating false records about me and lying about the contents of my therapy sessions.
- He did not logically walk me through how his therapeutic approach was going to help me. The best explanation he offered me was, "I know this sounds like a drug dealer. But you just gotta trust me. This thing works."
- Threatening to breach confidentiality and use my information against me in public.

Acting like legal counsel
- Attempting to provide legal advice on personal matters. What's more, he later criticized me for not having followed his unqualified, unsolicited advice.

Releasing records:
- Failing to comply with the laws related to a patient's right to obtain medical records, such as the HIPAA law.
- Harassing me for filing a complaint against him with the California Board of Psychology, including refusing to release my records, despite the Board's statement that "Everyone has the right to file a complaint without fear of harassment."

He also displayed a lack of respect for others:

Patients:
- He repeatedly discounted my own efforts at healing, even the ones that turned out to be successful, and demanded that I solely rely on him.

- Strangely, he called my exercising of rights to obtain my patient records a "hobby." Huh?

Other therapists:
- He talked down the efforts of my past psychotherapists by calling it "useless", even though I personally found their help valuable.
- He talked down other therapists as those who merely see their patients as "an object of symptoms or disorder, " even though not a single therapist I met or researched viewed his/her patients the way he said.
- He constantly tried to prove his superiority by comparing himself to other therapists, saying things like, "Other therapists don't do what I do."
- He disregarded the studies of the American Psychological Association, saying, "I don't trust those studies." This organization is endorsed by the California Board of Psychology.