Very understanding, approachable, kind, and great listener.

The first time I saw Dr. Onugha he snapped at me before I had even sat down. I had been carrying my phone in my hand and he very sharply asked me if it was recording (it wasn’t) and rebuked me for trying to record people without their permission. So we didn’t get off on the right foot.
After that meeting, and after every other meeting we had I had either a major depressive episode, a panic attack, or feelings of violent frustration. He somehow pushed all my buttons. I don’t believe this was because he was a bad doctor necessarily, but because we had fundamental communication problems. Basic words we both used we used with apparently different meanings. I am confident in my command of this language, and conclude that the problem was on his end. I imagine that he also learned English as a first language, but clearly in a post-colonial African setting (I’m guessing he must be either Ugandan or Kenyan). So it would seem that our basic vocabulary didn’t mesh, which balooned into huge communication problems. After all, talking about mental health is guaranteed to be difficult in the best of circumstances.
Coupled with this, I was at the time experiencing lapses in short term memory, requiring me to often ask for him to repeat and clarify things. He did not have any patience with me and implied I was being purposefully obtuse. In one meeting he was so beside himself that he decided he had to call in a “witness” (I guess he was afraid I might get his advice wrong and then hold it against him?) By coincidence the person who answered his call was my counselor, who I was also meeting with that day. She held her peace while he condescended to me and upbraided me in turns. When we left and met in her office she confirmed my reading of the situation, that we were talking past one another and had some sort of inherent inability to deal with one another (she also suggested that some of his behaviour had been mildly inappropriate, or at least rude). I put in a request to see a different psychiatrist later that day, and never saw Dr. Onugha again after that. All in all I met with him 6-8 times
Aside from personality clashes now. When we weren’t irritated with one another I found his bedside manner calm and neutral. I got the impression that he felt that as a psychiatrist he was the highest authority on my treatment, and that my lowly counselor (a psych. nurse) was ill-equipped to have an opinion on my particular case, much less my family doctor, etc. It’s not like he lorded it over them, just didn’t seem to care when I shared what they had told me. He seems to hold the DSM-IV/V as holy writ, and likes referring to it when talking about symptoms and diagnoses, rather than evaluate you as an individual. As far as treatments he did want me to take part in a CBT group, but overall focused much more intently on pharmaceuticals (not terribly surprising). Unfortunately, while he happily suggested two or three drug options every time I saw him, he was unwilling to tell me which one he thought was best, forcing me to decide. I guess this was a way to protect himself, but I don’t have enough experience with other psychiatrists to say if this is typical or not. Either way, it bothered me. It seemed nuts to make me solely responsible for that type of decision when I don’t have the education or experience. And then when I made a choice I always felt from his response like I’d somehow made the wrong one, but again he was totally unwilling to advise one drug over another, once he’d laid out my options. Very frustrating, and somewhat scary.
This was my experience, but who knows, maybe he and you will speak the same language?