Very unwilling to listen, speaks very condescending and tries to manipulate your words as you speak them. I do not recommend this doctor at all. Ignorant, unhelpful and an inability to listen to his patients

Submitted May 18, 2023

I also had a good experience with Dr. Guan after being referred to him through the Tri-Cities Rapid Access program for an initial consultation. He was pleasant, listened carefully, and was open to my concerns and my thoughts on how to approach next steps to treatment. He was also flexible on when to meet again for our follow-up after medication adjustments. I came out feeling much better about my treatment plan than I had before this meeting, to this point I had just working with my GP who had run out of options. I would recommend Dr. Guan.

Submitted May 17, 2023

I had a very good experiance with Dr. Guan. After being ignored and not listened to by other medical professionals, Dr. Guan listened to what I said, believed me when I explained what I was experiencing, and very clearly laid out my options in terms of therapy and medication. He spent a lot of time anwsering my questions and didn't seem to be pressuring me towards a certain course of action, but instead really seemed to want to give me the space to consider and choose what felt right for me. At follow-up appointments he remembered my information and asked meaningful follow-up questions. I in no way want to undermine other peoples bad experiences with him, I just almost didn't go to my initial appointment because of all the bad reviews and in the end I am really glad I did.

Submitted March 2, 2023

My experience with Dr Guan was very positive. I felt listened to when I spoke, he seemed concerned about me. He has a calm demeanour and, while it's true sometimes the questions asked seemed a bit strange, I've had that issue with every psychiatrist I've seen so far so I think he had to ask them to get a good grasp of what I was experiencing. I never really thing psychiatrist understand too much my condition, but he didn't make me seem stupid or anything. I am sorry to see many people had bad experiences, but mine was very positive and I wanted to give my opinion as a balance. Thank you for reading. :)

Submitted Feb. 8, 2023

He asked weird irrelevant questions, and made me feel extremely uncomfortable. He stared at me in silence after I was clearly done answering his questions. He said that I said I experienced sexual side effects from the medication, which I did not say. He’s super creepy.

Submitted Nov. 23, 2022

I am glad to stumble upon these reviews, even though it's only after the 2 meetings I've had with this psychiatrist at VGH's Access and Assessment Center. Like many of the comments, do avoid and request for a different physician if possible. Dr. Brian Guan was inattentive and wrote things about me that were not accurate to my experience and horribly dismissed some of them as well. He made me feel belittled and as if I wasn't the owner of my own experiences and exaggerating things. I left feeling like unheard and dismissed from both experiences and I wasn't given informed consent for the medication plan/treatment and saying the only way out of/ 'fixing' depression was through therapy and medication. If you do end up seeing him because that is the only place you can access, please hold your heart close and I hope to provide you some support and strength as you go through your healing journey. Despite what he may say/ diagnose you with, you are important and loved. Please take care of your energy and be gentle with yourself.

Thanks for reading this, I just hope that he can be held accountable to gross misconduct and that you know you are not alone. With love, a.

PS. there is also security outside at all times and intercom access only to this area of the hospital, take care as you need to as this can be very triggering for some.

Submitted Sept. 7, 2022

He treated a friend of mine horribly, zero empathy or compassion, dismissive and non caring. He should not be practicing.

Submitted Feb. 20, 2022

If you're reading this after a call with the access and assessment center in Vancouver, and they just booked you an appointment with Dr Brian Guan, please for the love of god call back and ask for a new psychiatrist. Now I know what you must be thinking, "Hey, he couldn't be that bad, only people with bad experiences write bad reviews so this page is probably biased." but hear me out. I had the same thought before coming to Dr Brian Guan and boy was I in for a ride when I actually got around to seeing him. Take these reviews to heart because he is in fact A BAD DOCTOR. He doesn't listen attentively, will frequently forget key details about you despite your file being right in front of him and will be dismissive of your concerns/opinions about your health that may differ from his assessment. If you're looking for any kind of mental health help AVOID THIS DOCTOR AT ALL COSTS. Don't suffer as I did.

Submitted Feb. 1, 2022

If this is the same Dr Brian Guan working out of Segal Centre VGH, he’s a misogynistic and arrogant, thinks he knows better than other doctors and DSM V. If you know yourself and have been through abuse of any kind, including by doctors he’ll think you have a personality disorder (handy to put a label on someone who stands up to power)- despite being told that multiple doctors wrongly diagnosed a lot of different personality disorders. I don’t have one. If I did I would be the first to admit it because I have done decades of work on myself, do not meet the criteria and an dead honest with myself. He doesn’t care about facts, has no faith that a patient knows anything, doesn’t truly listen, and will contradict a correct diagnosis. He’s dangerous for anyone with past abuse issues and will use such information to undo a patient’s real progress and send someone who is emotionally unstable into a downward spiral. Me, I’m just angry. This poor excuse for a human being cannot disempower me with his b.s. I need help with monitoring meds and working with me on DBT and analyzing my mood mapping. I have Bipolar 1 and after decades of not having the right diagnosis and finally getting the right diagnosis this prick wanted to undo it. Judging from multiple other reviews I have read I’m not the only one to be jacked around by him one way or another. Because of him I have nowhere to go for help. He abused my trust. He should be fired.

Submitted Aug. 27, 2020

I’m a NICU nurse, I also have a minor in Psychology. I am quite self aware and medically knowledgeable about my condition. Dr. Guam did an assessment for my disability claim on behalf of my insurance company. At the time of the assessment I was so clinically depressed with PTSD and anxiety at the point of the assessment I was suicidal. He wrote in my report that I was “physically capable of working as a nurse.” Physically capable?! When did he perform a physical exam on me? Isn’t he a psychiatrist? Wasn’t he suppose to assess my mental state. Is it his medical opinion that a severely depressed nurse be well enough to go back to work on an ICU of babies because I didn’t physically break anything? Self advocate, if you are assigned him for your assessment, ask for someone else. I was thoroughly traumatized by him and I’m part of the medical system!

Submitted April 15, 2020