This is Dr. McKenzie replying to the comment before this one. First of all I am sorry you felt so pummelled by me in your session. I take seriously your comments. I believe we do, however. have a different recollection of my counselling on your sexual assault. Sexual assault I treat very seriously often referring out to a sexual assault specialist and certainly not putting something that serious on a shelf. In addition I would never counsel nor state anywhere that unless a woman screams out a loud NO and has her clothes torn off her that it is not rape. Always my stand has been and still is that even in the act of having sec if one partner says they do not wish to continue it must stop. For the other partner to continue them that is sexual assault...rape.

Submitted April 2, 2021

Beware women. Initially, I thought Dr. McKenzie’s directness would help my husband and I navigate through the attachment break caused by an incident of sexual assault. He speaks confidently, and authoritatively so one is left with the impression he is expert in what he speaks of. Later, it became evident that his belief system is misogynistic, dominating, and archaic. In one session he went on a monologue about how unfair it was that Jian Ghomeshi was arrested for the alleged rape of the three women. He later apologized but it was revealing that he had such strong feelings on this. In another session he told me to put the experience of sexual assault “on a shelf” so that my husband and I could work out “communication problems”. He told me if I was not screaming “no”, and my clothes were not being ripped off it wasn’t rape. That was what opened my eyes. I never went back. I also found him to be forgetful. I told him facts and experiences from one session and he would not remember in another session. This guy really messed with my head. His conviction had me questioning my sanity. In the end, the memory of the bruises in the shape of hand prints on my thighs and ankles brought me back to myself.

Submitted Feb. 19, 2021

He is direct and cuts to the chase and holds you accountable. Calls out bs.

Submitted Dec. 20, 2020

Best ever! He can be very direct but we love that about him. He gets to the issues quickly and assigns homework.

Submitted July 26, 2020

WE have been helped tremendously by this counselling therapist. Warm and compassionate but gets to the issues very fast.

Submitted July 11, 2019

Best counsellor we have ever had by far! He is highly knowledgeable, direct, gives homework, is very compassionate and non judgmental and won't dilly dally around with endless "going nowhere" counselling. He's great!

Submitted Oct. 26, 2017

We saw Dr. McKenzie after several tries of going to other marriage counsellors. He was of enormous assistance to my husband and myself. He is direct and digs very deep. We saw him for six sessions and frankly his counselling did more to help us in six session than all the other counsellors combined. He is quite direct (which we both like very much) and goes very deep very quickly into the dynamics of the relationship and what each of us brought to the marriage. He gave us homework, which we diligently did. He is very knowledgeable, compassionate, and perceptive. Highly recommended!

Submitted Sept. 20, 2017

I don’t normally write a review, but hope to save somebody from going through what I went through. My husband and I went to Dr David Mackenzie for counseling. We have a great relationship but after 10 years we felt the need to tackle this part of our relationship.
I am a 50 year old woman brutally going through perimenopause, the morning of our appointment I woke up knowing I was having one of those days where my emotions where running extremely high due to the fluctuation in my hormones…I have had a few of those days and knew that I would cry at a drop of hat, a cute puppy would make me cry, to say the least anything good or bad that day would of made me cry. I am not an overly emotional person, but going through this change in my life there has been many days when I have felt like I did when I was a teenager and the hormones could take me anywhere.

But we had booked this appointment (prepaid no cancellation) and I am really committed to working through the issues with my husband. I felt no fear walking into Dr Mackenzie office, I knew that I would be vulnerable but anticipated a counsellor would understand.

When we entered his office I tried to explain to him that I was having one of those days. By saying that I didn’t need heat with the terrible hot flashes I was having and said very earlier on in our conversation that I was struggling with emotions that day due to the incredible changes my body was going through.

I will not go into the details of the conversation, but to say the least I have never felt more brutalized emotional in my life. This even topped the death of my beloved father. He constantly cut me off, I could never get more than 2 sentences out at time and then he would immediately draw conclusions because I was crying. I cried for over half of the session. To top everything off, he seemed very empathic to my husband but not to myself.

Please be careful if you are going to see this guy, as he said when my husband said we will think about booking another appointment “he is not for everybody”. Be careful it is going to take me awhile to get over the hour and half I spent with this person.

Submitted Feb. 10, 2016