Yelp has many recent reviews of Rhonda Barovsky. Eighty-nine percent (89%) of those reviews in the most recent four-year period are one-star reviews (the lowest possible rating). These reviews share a remarkable coherence of the type of complaints including those describing the PETITIONER works as “biased”, “fraudulent”, “unethical”, “criminal”, “sick”, “abusive”, "threatening", etc. The general sentiment is summarized by one reviewer well: “She [Barovsky] meets with both parties then picks a favorite and uses all of her tools to hurt the parent she does not like.” Numerous reviewers report as one put it: “she [Barovsky] forces clients to sign a gag order.” Yelp also archives old “not recommended reviews. There are more than 28 1-star on Yelp reviews, far more than any other custody evaluator in the Alameda or Contra Costa Counties.

Damon’s List, a list of “professionals" reported to aid and abet abusers and molesters in gaining custody of their victims” lists Rhonda Barovsky at the tops of their list psychologist and therapist offenders in Contra Costa County, California.

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Blogger, the online community owned by Google, contains a post from January 9, 2009 that details one client’s nightmare with Rhonda Barovsky. The poster says Barovsky “lies”, “distroys (SIC) families”, is “lazy”, messy and fails to advocate for children. Of 41 comments, 39 (95%) agree with the author, most alleging that they are also former clients of Barovsky.