The Gardiner Center for Stress Management
Mental Health Counseling • Gardiner, ME
About
The Gardiner Center for Stress Management in Gardiner, Maine offers short-term individual and couples therapy, treatment of anxiety disorders including PTSD, OCD, social phobia, and generalized anxiety, and community stress management classes. Located since 2015, the center provides cognitive-behavioral therapy combined with mindfulness and humanistic approaches.
Clinic Type
Mental Health Counseling
Address
103 Brunswick Avenue, Gardiner, ME 04345
Phone
207.242.6271
thegardinercenter@gmail.com
Opening Hours
Not published — contact the clinic to confirm hours.
Services Offered
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What Patients Say
Overall sentiment across review platforms: mixed
- Medicare.gov/SeniorServiceDirectory: 2/5 overall rating (Medicare.gov)
- Seniors.fyi: 4.9/5 stars (100 reviews)
- US News (Dr. James E. Gardiner): 5/5 rating across 6 categories (550 reviews)
Patients praise
- Some staff members noted as professional and helpful
- Strong rehabilitation and therapy programs at some nursing centers
- Positive experiences with specific individual practitioners
Common complaints
- Long wait times for appointments and at facilities
- Poor communication with front desk and administrative staff
- Rudeness or lack of bedside manner from some staff members
- Difficulties regarding insurance coverage, billing, and scheduling errors
- Concerns about patient care and clinical follow-through
"Horrible experience, if you can avoid this place there is other sister clinics that are better. I had to wait over an 2hours to be seen."
— LocalityBiz (Gardner Health Center)"I will NEVER come back to this Urgent Care. Waited 3 hours in the waiting room and on top of that people were being called in before me when they were arriving after me."
— LocalityBiz (Greater Gardner Community Health Center)"The place is the worst. The nurses have no bedside manner and treated patients poorly..."
— Seniors.fyi (Gardner Rehabilitation and Nursing Center)Synthesized from public review platforms as of Jul 11, 2026 — sources: [1][2][3][4].
In the News
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Information sourced from the clinic's website as of July 11, 2026.
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