Category: Brooklyn Minds Psychiatry

BOMBSHELL ALLEGATIONS FROM OTHER PARENTS ABOUT BROOKLYN MINDS, Dr Owen Muir and other therapists

2/14/2022

0 Comments

We have received the following email with bombshell allegations from parents whose daughter has been in treatment with Dr Owen Muir and other therapists from Brooklyn. Minds.

"Hi Mrs. Haddad,
Thank you for responding. We understand your caution in learning more about me. Our hearts truly break for you. We are so sorry about your daughter. I am a licensed psychotherapist and have been in practice now for almost 30 years.
Our daughter, 26, is a patient of Owen's. We are so disturbed by his treatment of our daughter. I am a psychotherapist in the West coast. They have always seemed off to me. When our daughter was actively suicidal and instead of calling for a welfare check or 911, or the authorities, her psychotherapist went to her apartment, retrieved her and then brought her back to the clinic for 9 hours worth of TMS. And the next day full of 9 hours of TMS treatments. And then she was sent home.

As a clinician, if I had an actively suicidal client I would never go to their home. I found this very bizarre. I have had my doubts about Owen for years. He has seen her for roughly 5 years and has seen the psychotherapist for a couple years now. Our daughter finally signed a release so we can talk with her clinicians.

Apparently one of her clinicians lost a patient to suicide a few months ago. When we spoke on the phone with her clinician, we assumed it would be a professional conversation. The person was either drunk or on something. The clinician kept saying how much they loved our daughter and they didn't want her to die.

Our daughter is safe with us. But we have seen her talk about Owen and how he really gets mad at her most of the time. That's not normal. He clearly has anger management issues. And her clinician was so weird and out of it, saying our daughter was going to die. And they kept me on the phone for nearly 2 hours. At one point they said something that chilled us to the bone. We told the clinician that we would take care of our daughter going forward, and then her clinician said:

"oh sweetie, you don't understand, she's mine."

???
I have never heard such an inappropriate comment coming from a therapist. Neither have any of my colleagues.
This excessive self disclosure is NOT OKAY. And as a clinician I am appalled by their behavior. We found you because we found out they were being sued. We are so sorry about your daughter. That's awful. We plan to report both of them to their respective boards but we need to first get our daughter away from them for good.

They are like a cult.

They have her doing so much therapy and TMS. When she was visited and she had a therapy appointment, she became concerned that she was going to be in big big trouble with Owen. We told her she could cancel the appointments. Her therapist was urging her to come back to NY to talk to her. We told our daughter to tell her clinician that she is with her parents. And that we will be taking care of her. She did not respond well and did so in a passive aggressive way. But we are very worried about our daughter and we don’t sleep at night.

Her therapist proceeded to tell her she had to come back to NY because as a clinician they were the only one that could help her. At that point we told our daughter that she did not have to leave and her therapist was being inappropriate. We spoke to her therapist. We wrote down everything they were saying and have some disturbing quotes. After we got off the phone with the therapist I called another clinician who is my colleague. This colleague and other clinician friends have told me that I need to report them to the board. My spouse heard part of the conversation and urged me to hang up because the therapist sounded out of their mind.

We spoke with Owen finally, when he took our call. He listened but seemed rather defensive. We are afraid he will talk our daughter into coming back. We want her as far away from them as she can be. She has asked me not to report either her therapist or Owen to their respective boards but I can’t do that, and as a clinician and not just a parent, I feel obligated ethically to do so. Our daughter is moving here to live with us and we are hoping that we can get her away from them and we can help her introduced to proper professionals here. We are so concerned about her being talked into returning to them.

Owen said to us that the therapist "wasn't like that" and that the death of a client by suicide recently had disregulated the clinician. That is not an excuse for that kind of behavior. I suggested they may not be in the best place to practice and needs a break. He then told me that they "moved hell and earth" and spent hours on the phone with our daughter’s insurance to get her covered but unfortunately were unable to get her covered.
I don't see how that was relevant, and it felt very defensive and inappropriate. We tried to speak to Dr. Carlene MacMillan who wanted nothing to do with us.

Our daughter has always expressed feeling beholden to them because of his hard work to get her sessions covered.
I deal with insurance and it is a pain but I would never tell my clients how hard it was to get coverage. It is simply inappropriate. They seem like a cult to me. Our daughter has been going to therapy some weeks 4 to 5 times a week. Sometimes more. Anyone who needs to be seen so many times a week should be in a psych unit for a brief period. And under 24/7 supervision. The day our daughter was suicidal she had 9 hours of TMS and the next day another 9 hours of TMS. We don't understand what they are doing.
18 hours of TMS in barely over 24 hours and she is still suicidal. Clearly either their knowledge of TMS is poor, or they might not be giving the appropriate magnetic pulses needed for a patient to improve. Like a taximeter, they keep charging patients for endless TMS sessions. That is not how TMS is supposed to work.

We feel that they have been taking advantage of our daughter and her vulnerabilities We don't like hearing the things they have said to us and to her. At this point we are not sure that our daughter understands that this is not normal but we are doing our best to explain. We are very concerned with her therapist telling our daughter regularly how much they love her. We told Owen that and he doesn't seem to understand that is so unprofessional and violates boundaries in a major way. The therapist said some awful things on the phone to me last time we spoke.

Our daughter told us that they knew they were being investigated and sued and that's how we found you. We googled the practice and found the article in the NY Post and then found your blog. When you posted about the things Owen said to your daughter it reminded us of how he has interacted with our daughter. And the email he wrote after the death of your daughter was completely bizarre.

There is something wrong with him.

I read my colleagues some of the things you have posted on the blog and they agree it's horrifying. They are also concerned about our daughter going back to them because our daughter feels she “owes” them. She doesn't owe them a damn thing. We pay plenty. It is going to take a while to undo the damage they've done. They have done too much damage already."

This is not the first time parents have contacted us, with this type of allegations, nor the first time they have written the allegation that "something is wrong with Dr. Owen Muir."
These latest allegations are quite disturbing, and concerning.
We will keep fighting because we want to prevent other parents from going through what we are going through - and above all to prevent them from harming other young adults.
They are evil. Their texts and emails to our daughter show that clearly, and in due time they will be introduced in court. Their texts and emails to us are also evil, many people we have shown to - professionals - have said so.

0 Comments

Again - ALLEGEDLY OWEN MUIR GIVING OUT MY PHONE NUMBER

11/28/2021

0 Comments

On November 24, 2021, I received AGAIN a disturbing and creepy phone call from a Florida number. A woman asked to speak with Dr. Owen Muir. When I asked "who gave you this number??", the woman said "Dr. Owen Muir";" my husband was about to record when she hung up. We called our lawyer, who has instructed us what to do. More on that in the near future.

When I called back that number (screenshot below) barely a few minutes later (I was going to ask her to remove my number). there was a recording: "you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service."

I am still surprised but not shocked. It is tasteless and sick regardless of who gave my number to that person to make that call. Just before the holidays of all days?

In Mona Daniella's texts Drs. Carlene MacMillan and Owen Muir show they communicated with Mona Daniella z"l using multiple phone numbers, allegedly they are experts at getting new phone numbers and deleting them.

Why on earth would any doctor do that? Last I heard decent and honest doctors keep the same number.

That is really a sick obsession to make such disturbing calls that they - whoever called - knew would startle me - knowing in full how I am still grieving. People like that deserve to burn in hell. Psychopaths..

Esther Haddad (Mona Daniella's mom)

0 Comments

New Allegations, updates Re Drs. Carlene MacMillan, Owen Muir, Brooklyn Minds Psychiatry

5/5/2021

0 Comments

I received an unsolicited text message from a person who wishes to remain anonymous. This person made disturbing allegations about Drs. Carlene MacMillan and Owen Muir from Brooklyn Minds. Below some of the screenshots of the allegations:
One of the allegations is particularly disturbing; "There is something very wrong with him." Mona Daniella had written to Dr. Carlene MacMillan something to that effect.

For the record: Drs. Carlene MacMillan and Owen Muir are free to sleep with whomever they choose - Dr. Owen Muir was not free to allegedly rape my late daughter.

Anonymous alleges Owen Muir is a creep.

Screenshot from Anonymous' allegations that Muir is a creep

Anonymous allegation Muir and MacMillan from Brooklyn Minds have group sex

Anonymous allegation about Owen Muir being a sex addict "There is something very wrong with him"...

Anonymous hopes Owen Muir its arrested

Allegation about Owen Muir being a creep

Screenshot from Anonymous' allegations that Muir is a creep

Allegation that Owen Muir uses group sex apps

Allegation that Owen Muir is a bad person and belongs in jail.

Allegation about Owen Muir being a creep

Allegations about Owen Muir from Brooklyn Minds being a pervert

Anonymous shocked Owen Muir is a father

0 Comments

Our reply to the new unhinged comment from “Oh” - apparently from the same person who responded to the post on rape allegations

12/13/2019

0 Comments

“Oh”’s comment:
“You are an angry person.…..Blaming Dr. Muir. Dr. MacMillan. NYU. does not bring Mona back. Stop it with the fake allegations. Accusing other people of fake crimes. Does not change what you did to Mona while she was alive. I know. I remember. I loved her.”

Our family is sad and alarmed with your new comment, and what appears to be a complete lack of empathy. How else to describe your vicious attacks when patients are harmed, in addition to the alleged rape of multiple people by Dr, Owen Muir?

We can see that you clearly know nothing about our late daughter Mona Daniella, or about Dr. Owen Muir being unqualified to treat her - by his own admission to NYU Langone Medical Center - and about Dr. Carlene MacMillan knowingly and willingly enabling her husband again and again to sadistically terrorize our late daughter.

“Oh”, obviously you are very uncomfortable in confronting that allegedly Owen Muir might be a rapist, so now you are attempting to change the subject in an attempt to take the spotlight from Dr. Owen Muir's depraved behaviour by attacking us. It is quite disturbing to see how you might be out of touch with reality or that in all probability you seem to feel ok with victim blaming and defending their perpetrators.

Why are you so invested in defending people who were clearly negligent, fraudulent (in certain instances), and who threatened Mona Daniella on a regular basis, as their own text messages to her indicate? The entire picture shows malpractice unequivocally– especially in light of the damning whistleblower comment. You seem to have no qualms with psychiatrists’, and hospitals' negligence, and malpractice.

It defies logic you are turning your unbridled anger now to our family by trying to shift the blame to us in your senseless, relentless and desperate defense of Dr. Carlene MacMillan, and Dr. Owen Muir.

"Oh", if you really loved Mona Daniella, you would actually want justice for her.

0 Comments

Re allegations From a Whistleblower about Dr. Owen Muir and NYU Langone Medical Center

11/29/2019

0 Comments

From Alan (Mona Daniella's father):
A whistleblower from NYU who wrote to us is further proof that Dr. Owen Muir did not have the capacity to treat Mona Daniella.

Only a whistleblower can provide such precise information.
The message was written by either a doctor or an attorney: it is very well written, by an educated person, who is very familiar with the specifics of psychiatric Emergency Room procedures, in addition to being quite familiar with Muir's graduation history.

Should the whistleblower's bombshell allegations prove to be true, it would clearly show NYU Langone Medical Center should have never allowed Dr. Owen Muir to graduate, then to be involved with, to consult, or to give any advice whatsoever to the Emergency Room psychiatric staff precisely because he had never gotten "the proper training and supervised experience working with patients suffering from psychiatric emergencies, which include suicidal behavior". This would mean that NYU Langone Medical Center allegedly knowingly and willingly allowed Dr. Owen Muir to encourage the Emergency Room to discharge Mona, or at worse the Psychiatric Emergency Room staff discharged Mona without having been told by NYU Langone Medical Center that Dr. Owen Muir is not allegedly qualified to take care of patients in crisis.
Either way the whistleblower's allegation is damning: allegedly NYU Langone Medical Center knowingly and willingly aided and abetted Dr. Owen Muir first by allowing him to graduate without the required training, second by allowing him to work around with patients suffering from psychiatric emergencies, which include suicidal behavior - despite knowing he lacked the qualifications, and the experience; and allegedly NYU Langone Medical Center knowingly and willingly chose to not take any precautions whatsoever to safeguard the lives of their patients by in all probability choosing earnings ahead of lives.
The whistleblower's allegation makes it more difficult to understand why NYU Langone Medical Center would give hospital privileges to Dr. Owen Muir especially since he had allegedly threatened to sue them. Getting hospital privileges is difficult in New York City.

This is exactly what Dr. Owen Muir did to our daughter Mona Daniella - in regards to her treatment, (without our knowledge of the whistleblower's allegations), We have thousands of SMS text exchanges between Dr. Owen Muir and Mona Daniella and Dr. Carlene MacMillan and Mona Daniella to support this. He called the police on her (then lied about it) - actually worse, he asked Dr. Carlene MacMillan to call the police on Mona Daniella and had her taken to Bellevue hospital on trumped up charges despite knowing Bellevue was her biggest fear. In addition Dr. Owen Muir threatened Mona Daniella multiple times. Dr. Carlene MacMillan was aware because Mona Daniella texted her numerous times about the threats, yet did nothing about it. Talk about conflict of interest (this is one amongst many)..

This allegation doesn't simply reflect poorly on Dr. Owen Muir's character. The allegation would mean Dr. Owen Muir is fraudulent - akin to crooks who operate Ponzi schemes; they profess to do something that in reality they neither have the capability, nor are ever able to deliver the expected or promised results.

The whistleblower's allegations only help us believe further more how NYU Langone Medical Center was negligent and in all probability money meant all to them for them to neglect our late daughter Mona Daniella.

Dr. Owen Muir did not have the capacity to treat Mona Daniella - we now see this not just from the SMS text exchanges which is horrific. As a consequence he would never be able to deliver the expected results. And in fact he did not.

Dr. Owen Muir and Dr. Carlene Macmillan had an ethical obligation to advise us Dr, Owen Muir was not even a trainee before he started treating Mona Daniella. Instead they led us to believe he was an excellent psychiatrist (yes excellent at shouting, excellent at threatening, excellent at lying to the police by saying our daughter. had assaulted him while the SMS texts show this was clearly not the case). Had we known how Dr. Owen Muir and Dr. Carlene MacMillan were incompetent, unprofessional, unethical, negligent, liars and much more we would have never, never, never allowed Mona Daniella to be treated by them. Especially to start with Dr. Carlene MacMillan who knew first hand all the horrors Mona Daniella had gone through while misdiagnosed this treated with the wrong treatment - at the hands of doctors (Dr. Carlene MacMillan told us they were "green" not experienced doctors) in McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts where she had worked before (and did not hire her husband Dr. Owen Muir by their own admission).

This is definitely Pure Malpractice and Pure Negligence by all defendants in the lawsuit - the malpractice and negligence were not simple negligence; they were knowingly and willingly.

0 Comments

A WHISTLEBLOWER's ALLEGATIONS ABOUT DR. OWEN MUIR and NYU Langone Medical Center

11/29/2019

0 Comments

Bombshell new allegations against Muir!
Thank you Whistleblower.

These allegations needs to be investigated!
If they are proven to be true - Dr. Owen Muir needs to be held accountable for much more than we initially thought - also regardless if true or not shame on his wife Dr. Carlene MacMillan who knowingly and willingly aided and abetted her sick and disturbed husband Dr. Owen Muir Muir to threaten our late daughter Mona Daniella. He called the police on her on made up charges. Dr. Carlene MacMillan knows her husband is sick - there are multiple SMS exchanges that show the above. Dr. Carlene MacMillan needs to be hold accountable as well.

Thank you again Whistleblower. We hope and welcome any further information.

Whistleblower - We also have a gift for you: In an email, while she was still working for NYU Langone Medical Center, Dr. Carlene MacMillan, instructed Alan (Mona Daniella's father) and me to pay for her services through her husband / Dr. Owen Muir’s business Brooklyn Minds . We did not know that this is allegedly fraud. Apparently when doctors work for a hospital the hospital takes a share of the fees they charge patients. And doctors are not allowed to charge patients from other entities.

We have her email, the one with the above instructions that she sent to us. We believe NYU Langone Medical Center should investigate this.

0 Comments

MONA DANIELLA'S NEGATIVE YELP REVIEW OF DR. OWEN MUIR, LESS THAN A WEEK BEFORE HER sudden and tragic SUICIDE (MALPRACTICE LAWSUIT AGAINST DRS. CARLENE MACMILLAN and owen muir, BROOKLYN MINDS PSYCHIATRY, NYU langone medical centre AND SOME OF ITS EMPLOYEE

8/28/2019

0 Comments

Mona Daniella's NEGATIVE YELP review of Dr. Owen Muir - please note the 1st one is dated 9/18/2016, and the updated review is dated: 9/20/2016.
They are self explanatory.

On 9/26/2016 Mona took her own life. Less than a week after her review.

For reasons unknown to us, although Mona's reviews do not seem to violate Yelp's guidelines, they are in the YELP's section of reviews that are not currently recommended.

YELP deleted my review. Even though I followed their rules.

PictureMona Daniella's Negative YELP review of Dr. Owen Muir, from Brooklyn Minds

0 Comments

New York Post Article about the MALPRACTICE LAWSUIT AGAINST DRS. CARLENE MACMILLAN, and OWEN MUIR, BROOKLYN MINDS PSYCHIATRY, NYU langone medical centre AND SOME OF ITS EMPLOYEES

8/26/2019

0 Comments

UPDATE TO THE CASE

Here is the link to the New York Post article about the lawsuit:

Family of suicide victim sues psychiatrists for her death

"SHRINKS RAPPED"

The article mentions "One of her own friends" - "Haddad’s friend, who asked not to be identified".
We know this friend and love her. We have reached out to her to let her know we love her, and she will always be welcome in our home.
Another friend (both Mona Daniella's and this friend's) believes she might have been in all probability manipulated by Dr. Muir?

It's a miracle the New York Post ran this story at all as someone who is an objective person mentioned. In the New York Post's story Drs. Carlene MacMillan and Owen Muir do not come across well no matter what. It's a large story, and starts with how both doctors inappropriately discussed their personal lives (it is actually beyond inappropriate). We know that the New York Post had a couple of reporters working long hours on this story. We are grateful for the Post printing one of our favorite pictures of Mona Daniella, with EMMA her puppy, and for the reporter writing some of the quotes from the complaint.

Mona Daniella will have her day in court, and both Drs. Carlene MacMillan and Owen Muir will have to face what they did to Mona.

Here is the link to the complaint against for those who have not read it yet:
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=3WsUqISxtz0PYJ1KIciMrw%3D%3D&system=prod&fbclid=IwAR0_DG9eNa3V47d_JbNjkFRnw10OJgCMm2yymORjbHlgXii2-IGHsCnTapI

0 Comments

BOMBSHELL ALLEGATIONS FROM OTHER PARENTS ABOUT BROOKLYN MINDS, Dr Owen Muir and other therapists

Again - ALLEGEDLY OWEN MUIR GIVING OUT MY PHONE NUMBER

New Allegations, updates Re Drs. Carlene MacMillan, Owen Muir, Brooklyn Minds Psychiatry

Our reply to the new unhinged comment from “Oh” - apparently from the same person who responded to the post on rape allegations

Re allegations From a Whistleblower about Dr. Owen Muir and NYU Langone Medical Center

A WHISTLEBLOWER's ALLEGATIONS ABOUT DR. OWEN MUIR and NYU Langone Medical Center

MONA DANIELLA'S NEGATIVE YELP REVIEW OF DR. OWEN MUIR, LESS THAN A WEEK BEFORE HER sudden and tragic SUICIDE (MALPRACTICE LAWSUIT AGAINST DRS. CARLENE MACMILLAN and owen muir, BROOKLYN MINDS PSYCHIATRY, NYU langone medical centre AND SOME OF ITS EMPLOYEE

New York Post Article about the MALPRACTICE LAWSUIT AGAINST DRS. CARLENE MACMILLAN, and OWEN MUIR, BROOKLYN MINDS PSYCHIATRY, NYU langone medical centre AND SOME OF ITS EMPLOYEES

UPDATE TO THE CASE

REMEMBERING
MONA DANIELLA

Archives

Categories

SIGN UP
YOUR EMAIL IS SAFE. NO 3RD PARTY SELLING

UPDATE TO THE CASE

REMEMBERING​MONA DANIELLA

Archives

Categories

SIGN UPYOUR EMAIL IS SAFE. NO 3RD PARTY SELLING

REMEMBERING
MONA DANIELLA

SIGN UP
YOUR EMAIL IS SAFE. NO 3RD PARTY SELLING