Myrna L Klassen

I met Myrna two years ago and ever since have been extremely impressed with her knowledge and experience as a marriage and family therapist. i have made several referrals to her practice and am aware of many individuals and couples who have been helped via her expertise. I am thankful to know her and will continue to refer to her in the future!

I am engaged and was in need of pre-​marriage counseling. I found Myrna through my church web site where it listed numbers of recommended counselors. So I thought I can rest assure that any one of them would be wonderful. Boy, was I really wrong. As my fiancé and I sat with her and started to tell her about our issues we’ve been having in our relationship, she basically said our relationship is not going to work out (within 15 min into our conversation) and that we are unfit to have relationship with anybody else the way we are. I was furious and so hurt by what she said. She later then says, you should come back to me and I can help you how to communicate better. I was thinking… what? She says our relationship is not going to work out but to come back to her to improve my communication skills… with some other person than my fiancé??? This was ridicoulous. First of all, she has no right to make snap judgements about me and my fiancé and to comment about what she thinks. Counselors are NOT suppose to say what they think!!! She cannot know who we are by spending less than an hour talking to us. Who does she think she is? She is cynical, unprofessional, judgemental, and the most terrible counselor I’ve ever met. What she said to me and my fiancé was very damaging to us as a couple and as an individual. We are in a recovery. Fortunately, we met a wonderful counselor in berkeley and we are doing better. She too tought that Myrna was being very unprofessional. So did other counselors I know. Don’t bother to go see her. She should not be in counseling profession. I asked for a refund and was denied. I should have just walked out without paying for it. Here I was trying to be a responsible person. Obviously I wasnt thinking, I was so mad I just wanted to pay and LEAVE!!!