Joseph De Simone Psychologist PhD

I was nervous upon meeting Dr. De Simone but immediately at felt at ease and suprisingy, was able to open up to him about a lot of issues that I've been dealing with. He understands the subject, and is attentive.

Dr. Joe is an amazing man. Psychiatrists in general intimidate me and Dr. Joe had me feeling comfortable in no time. I had been looking for a therapist for some time and decided he is my man. He is simpathetic to obesity issues and listens without being condescending. He is wonderful, professional and most of all compassionate.

I met Dr. De Simone at Mt. Sinai's WLS support group. I felt very comfortable with him and I am now in thearpy with him. He's tough, but caring. The fact that he specializes in substance abuse I have found to be very helpful so far. As a side note, as a gay man, I usually have difficulity in talking to a male therapist - not so with Dr. De Simone. He allows me to feel very comfortable to talk to him about lots of issues.

He tells it like it is; he makes recommendations for aftercare and makes sure you understand that support, familial, friends, co workers, whatever is an important piece to recovery and success.

It was a very short visit, I thought there woudl be more questions. It was very expensive as well. But I needed a psy eval done by someone who was used to doing them for bariatric patients and so My own therapist was out of the question.

Dr. DeSimone seems very knowledgable about bariatric surgery; in fact, it seemed to be his specialty. He offered advice, as well asked questions and answered many of mine. I wouldn't hesitate to engage him if I needed help with other problems. (I answered NOT APPLICABLE to Dr. DeSimone 'helping' me because the purpose of the visit was for HIM to evaluate me as to my sincere reasons for having the surgery and my understanding of the risks/complications/etc of the surgery)