Melinda Louise Young

Grateful parent 

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4 years ago

I’m not sure what our family would have done without Dr Melinda Young when my boys were little. One of my boys had debilitating anxiety with some OCD and had been misdiagnosed and put on highly inappropriate drugs by a collaboration of two well known Bay Area child psychiatrists and a pediatrician. The other had atypical ADHD and was acting out, under the care of a different child psychiatrist. In both cases, several years apart, Dr Young was able to disentangle the mess, with endless patience and careful prescribing, keepin... read more

Anonymous 

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7 years ago

Dr Young is extraordinarily thorough, responsible, and perceptive. Her intake form was impressively detailed and she asked excellent questions. Previous doctors had put too much weight on our son's responses to questions even when we told them that the responses were influenced by other factors (including a bad mood or an inability to explain/remember clearly). She changed his medications very carefully over a period of time, with outstanding results.. She also sees adults. 

Sam 

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8 years ago

Melinda is an excellent provider who has helped me immensely with my anxiety disorder. She has a variety of tools and techniques along with medications to help her patients deal with their specific problems and ease their individual concerns and symptoms.