Dr Greenbaum kicked me out of the consultation while I was in deep distress. He asked my I was feeling the way I was and I certainly did no know how to answer him. Less than a week later I was admitted as an involuntary patient for an extended amount of time. I feel as if the time that I have spent consulting with Dr Greenbaum and the thousands of dollars I have paid him over the years has gone to waste.

I cannot recommend this man. Please stay away from Dr Greenbaum and try another psychiatrist.

Submitted Dec. 13, 2023

Dr Greenbaum sees you quickly, in and out, and you pay a fixed amount on top of what he gets from medicare regardless of the duration of appointment. He's good to see when you have a good handle on your mental illness and need someone for ongoing management. Unfortunately he's very disorganised and so any written assessments will likely not be done by the deadline and they contain inaccuracies needing correction (and another consultation) when you eventually get it. One time he lost my entire clinical file (apparently it was recovered) which is just not good enough. When you're waiting for a written report and you ring his secretary for a 'please hurry up' you'll get repeatedly told there's a backlog. It's like a broken record. But disorganisation aside if you can abide and older, conservative gentleman doctor looking after your care, you couldn't really go wrong with Dr Greenbaum. Medication - focussed but highly insightful and with vast experience.

Submitted Sept. 14, 2023

Absolutely useless!!!!! Do yourself and your loved ones a favour and go visit another psychiatrist. This guy is inadequate and incompetent.

Submitted July 22, 2023

I have been seeing Dr Greenbaum since 2021 and he saved my life. I see him for 15mins about once a month or so. He is a very good man with compassion, very intelligent, much life experience and an unfathomable knowledge. He tested my character on numerous occasions which has helped my recovery from Alcohol and drug addiction.

Submitted June 22, 2023

Dirty, useless 4 by 2!!!! This is one evil person.

Submitted May 26, 2023

Stay away from this man. Middle aged men with mental health issues should not even bother with him. Firstly, he can't remember what meds he prescribed, then he'll blame you for your symptoms.

This man is either too old to be practising or has lost his moral compass. He's only solution seems to be to either increase my daily dose of benzos or heavily sedate me with some other antipsychotic. My mental health has severely deteriorated since I started seeing him in 2000.

Submitted Jan. 26, 2023

I felt he had knowledge and experience, but no common sense. Simplified and minimised my trauma, blaming me and making me feel worse. Tried to pressure me to forgive my abusers. Old fashioned, close minded and dangerous for trauma survivors.

Submitted Aug. 10, 2022

I saw Dr Greenbaum recently and cried after I left our session.

First off he was about 10 minutes late, then when we went in, he asked me if I minded him removing his mask and he told me I was welcome to take mine off also. I felt so uncomfortable telling him he couldn't so I just said he could but I would be keeping mine on. This is illegal. Masks are mandated and I felt SO uncomfortable being put in that position.
Dr Greenbaum then spent a lot of the session with three of his fingers in his mouth. It was incredibly disgusting and I felt very dirty and gross being in the room with him.
I went in for an ADHD referral and spent probably 90% of the time talking about my PTSD. It felt like he was trying to make breakthroughs with my PTSD, disregarding that I already said I had 2 psychs helping me with this.
His questions surrounding my PTSD were what made me cry when I left. Dr Greenbaum asked me 2 questions in particular that felt invalidating and like victim blaming. One of the questions I can say maybe the phrasing was just off, "Were the boys making you uncomfortable or were you just making it up?" but made me feel incredibly invalidated. When I told him that the boys would touch my back and it made me uncomfortable it came across to me that he felt this was me making something up in my head.
The question that I cannot find an excuse for, is that Dr Greenbaum asked me about when I was on school camp and was assaulted by another student at age 15, "were you drinking at the time you were assaulted?" I have no reasonable explanation as to why he would ask this victim blaming question (the answer is no), and if there was a reason, he did not share that with me. I have been asked these questions in the past by other psychs and police and never felt a sense of victim blaming and judgement from them like I did from Dr Greenbaum.
I also felt Dr Greenbaum was very judgemental. When I said I went on the pill at 14 he asked "why did you go on the pill at 14?" which didn't feel relevant to ADHD, when I answered that I was sexually active then he made a comment about it being young.
Dr Greenbaum also answered a phone call from who I suspect was his wife, during our consult and constantly had to look back at the notes and ask me to repeat things because in my opinion he could not concentrate.
When I handed Dr Greenbaum a report card from my school that said I performed well but needed to listen better he told me I was a "good girl" in school which again, made me feel sick, dirty and uncomfortable. He seemed to look at the report and dismiss my concerns as I had performed well, even though I was telling him I had to try really hard to concentrate and to perform well. I felt like he completely dismissed my ADHD concerns and was instead trying to diagnose me with something else.
All in all, if this was the first experience I had had with a psych I would never go back. I am so thankful that I've had many positive experiences and that my assault was nearly 10 years ago, otherwise this consult could have been very damaging to my mental health.
I've NEVER cried after a psych session and never felt invalidated or like the psych was judging me and not listening to me and a victim blamer.
I highly recommend seeking help from another professional as I will be.

Submitted Oct. 11, 2021

I book a 30 minute consult that lasts about 10 minutes. Everytime I see him its like the first time. He doesn't know what meds I'm taking and asks me what I'm taking and how much. Is oblivious to my illnesses and snaps at me, even yells. Then he says "what do you want from me?" This is his way of saying what meds do you need? He doesn't write prescriptions properly, gives me sleeping pills when I have racing thoughts and basically has no idea who I am. He is the only psych who bulk bills so I have no choice. If I could find a new psych I would be there in a minute.

Submitted Oct. 5, 2021

Words can't describe how grateful I am of Michael. I could tell he really cared about me and listened very carefully to my concerns. I've never come across a doctor as caring as Michael. He thoroughly read the GP referral and asked me few questions about the letter. When he told me 'be well' before leaving his office, it felt like I was hearing that from my best mate. I feel lucky to have him as my psychiatrist and can't wait to go back.

Submitted Sept. 5, 2021