California Center for the Aging

This place is a joke! They surely are not a real business. Verify their credentials before you even go & see them.

We were referred to California Center for the Aging by a family member who contracted with this group for mediation and applying for benefits for an ill parent who obtained favorable results. We engaged Dr. Thomas for assistance with an aging parent also and were very disappointed with the service we received. He and staff turned out to be very unprofessional and as a result made errors on very important paperwork. He was also unwilling to help out in any way once his fee was so called «exhausted». It is a good idea to get all quotes detailed and in in writing with this company and if his assistance is needed in the future on past work done you may be out of luck. I do not recommend Dr. Thomas and the California Center for the Aging.

This business is AKA «Whole Person Healing» led by Johnathan Thomas Phd.
I found this nonprofit organization via a Groupon offered for hypnotherapy near my home. Since I was having insomnia & pain, I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to try this approach. The five sessions I completed provided no relief.
I felt comfortable with Jonathan Thomas, PhD and thought perhaps because of his multiple degrees and certifications, he would be helpful in mediating problems I was experiencing in my relationship with my daughter. My daughter and I both attended 3 – 4 individual sessions at the cost of $ 40 an hour and then met with Johnathan to go over everything together. What a mistake! My daughter and I were given different instructions from Johnathan in regards to writing a letter to each other to review at our joint session. There was no guidance during the session, in fact Johnathan only uttered about 4 sentences during our 90 minutes together. We were both very distraught, which Jonathan seemed oblivious to and he offered no guidance in our attempts to communicate with each other. At one point my daughter raised her voice, through tears, telling him to tell me what she meant. Johnathan’s only advice at the end of the session was to hug one another! He had nothing to say when we left the office and made no effort at bringing the session to an end on a positive note. He failed to provide any type of therapy for us. He has failed to follow up with us since that session. Our relationship has suffered greatly because of this poor counseling session.
My daughter and I had been to counseling with a licensed clinical social worker previously and the difference between her and this session with Jonathan is like night and day. She was active throughout the session, helping us to communicate better, exploring feelings, asking for clarification of emotions and comments, and when we left, we felt we had a better understanding of one another. Of course her fee was $ 100 per hour (not per person as Johnathan charges) so I’ve learned that you get what you pay for!
In addition, I felt Jonathan was very unprofessional as he attempted to increase the joint session fee by an additional 25% when he complained that our inability to attend a prior session lost him «paying clients». We accommodated him when he had a family emergency and canceled our original appointment and due to my daughter becoming ill, we had to cancel the second appointment scheduled with him, but he was given 24 hours notice. He didn’t seem to have any interest in rescheduling us as he failed to timely respond to multiple requests from both of us. He actually seemed to be angry and pouting which is SO inappropriate.
I attended one meeting of the meditation society that Jonathan Thomas is attempting to form in the Claremont area. I was very concerned as a client, when he passed around his notebook for the group to use as a hard surface for the sign in sheet. He asked people not to look inside the notebook as he had confidential information on his clients in there. He then referred to his clients as «hot messes» when speaking with a colleague in the group, which was overheard by many members of this public group. When I expressed my concern to him in regards to the easy access he provided to clients private information during that meeting, he said it was a «joke».
I cannot recommend «Whole Person Healing» led by Johnathan Thomas for these reasons. Save your money and go to a licensed therapist!

This place is one of the few I really enjoyed going to, I am not one to
referre or mention a business unless I found it to be exceptional. Their
service and compation far exceeds what my initial expectations,
Dr. Jonathan really listens and gets in there to get the point (s) so
you can reach the area that really causing you troubles… After your
first session (at least I found this true) you leave feeling like something
can be done and the world (your world) can have some kind of order
that makes sence…