While I was in the DBT Program my time with Dr. Fitch was satifactory. I wish she would spend more time listening to her patients instead of taking the side of the therapists. I feel that Dr. Fitch needs to care a little more about her clients especially after discharging them from a program.
Posted Date : 29/04/2024
I am grateful to Dr. Kathryn-Ann Fitch for accepting me into the Alberta Health Services' DBT program. I found her to be rather hesitant (maybe cautious would be a better word) when deciding about how to handle my prescriptions (in view of the handover from my previous psychiatrist to her). She was capable of frankness and honesty with me, that's a tall order when you're dealing with ME (I tend to be a hard head case). I wish her the best on her upcoming maternity leave :-) Meanwhile, I hope her optimism about me is not misplaced. I have observed Dr. Fitch looking to my therapist for confirmation on a decision which I'm not sure if that's good or bad or the way DBT works. It is definitely NOT treatment as usual (TAU). Good luck to me!!!
Posted Date : 29/04/2024
Meeting her as inpatient.Very intelligent. Knows what I am talking about.
Posted Date : 29/04/2024
She's smart, kind, caring, polite, respectful, and generally just awesome. I'm so glad to have her as my psychiatrist.
Posted Date : 29/04/2024
I was in the DBT program as well and in general none of the Psychiatrists or Therapists listened to their Patients. It seems that the more you fight to express your feelings the more they fight against it. People that have a mental illness need to be heard and/or express how they feel more than anyone and yet the "norm" for DBT is to run a dictatorship
Posted Date : 29/04/2024
Anonymous
Incompetent is too kind in describing this doctor. Does not keep up with research and thinks everyone has Borderline Personality Disorder. Violates the very code of conduct that she is supposed to adhere to like obtaining informed consent. Her and her staff treat those with physical disabilities with such disrespect and coerce us into refusing access to care if we don’t give up our right to privacy in areas absolutely not related to health and are not interested in accessing current or accurate health records. My one interaction with her has resulted in such a deterioration of not only my mental health which was well controlled before being forced to see her. If you want a reason to kill yourself even if you didn’t before this is the doctor to see. I am now writing my will and preparing for a slow and painful death because of her.
Anonymous
She is an absolutely terrible person to be treated by,i have met several psychiatrists during my bouts with mental illness and she is by far the worst.
Anonymous
Very unprofessional…she needs a refresher course in kindness empathy. I think she is rather insecure and it comes across quite clearly in her approach. I have seen her patients develop more anxiety due to her methods .she is snappy and impatient and too much of an ego
Anonymous
I saw Dr Fitch a long time ago in DBT before it was in the Sheldon chum centre. I had a fabulous therapist who has unfortunately since moved away. When I left the DBT program my therapist said he didn’t think I was ready, however I felt the need to leave due to Dr Fitch. I wanted my usual psychiatrist back. I found Dr Fitch cold and uncaring. When I would cry she would always say “oh poor you” which was perhaps not meant to be sarcastic, I don’t know. That is how it came across though. She also had no patience for my anxiety. Always expecting me to pull myself together and be perfectly composed. Well, I have a severe anxiety disorder and this is not usually possible for me. Perhaps it is unfair to compare her to my usual psychiatrist, as he is a fantastic doctor, but that is my frame of reference.
Anonymous
Dr Fitch seems to be a reasonable psychiatrist which is surprising because from my lengthy experience both in alberta health services and out at community centres such as calgary counselling centre ,AHS is hiring only the rejects from other centres. Especially in the dialectical behavioural program. Are u incompetent, lazy, not interested in hearing your clients views, and willing to write horrible things in patients files? Then by all means apply at the dialectical behavioural program for therapist or psychiatrist. You’ll do excellent! This is word for word what a therapist told me in the DBT program. ” if you don’t hate you therapist, we aren’t doing our job correctly”. Really? That’s how the Dbt program operates? That’s so pathetic taht words can’t even express how disrespectful and incompetent it is. I will NEVER subject myself to abusive treatment again like I have with AHS…. Ever…. I’m going to a private psychologist where I’m treated with respect and I’m able to converse with competent, capable , caring professionals who WANT to listen