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2.5
Dr Miller almost destroyed my family 10 years ago. Instead of addressing clear mental health issues, offering support or encouraging reconciliation, he assigned blame, made accusations and predicted catastrophic outcomes. When my husband finally agreed to come to family counselling, he accused him of having an affair and randomly encouraged our child to leave home. It seemed like he wanted us to be in conflict because he tried to blow things up exactly when they were starting to get better. He dominates, mocks, and bullies his clients and leaves them confused, anxious and in conflict with each other. Please do yourself a favour and find a different therapist.
This happened quite a while ago as a child. Dr. Miller promised the world with his made up therapy that is basically a repackaged Buddhist lesson in secular clothes processing trauma through awareness of the body. He then starts to meddle in family affairs, and he gives advice that contradicts itself. He is a bully in that he’ll mock you throughout your appointments. He forgets everybody’s names even though he has seen you many times and seems to forget all previous sessions. In the end Dr. Miller gave up on me and fired me as a patient. He did not refer me to another psychologist. I needed follow up. He also lied when it came to things he did to try covering his issues. Guess his English University did not teach ethics. Avoid.
Dr. Miller seemed perceptive when my ex partner first went to him for couples therapy, but my opinion changed over the course of about nine sessions. He almost no time doing real therapy or teaching us communication skills, but rather talked about what he thought about us most of the time. Our relationship was in rough shape already when we started, and over the time we saw him weekly he left us in seriously worse shape. I then ended the relationship and stopped counselling. In the first session he advised us to commit to three months of counselling. My ex was in the habit of breaking up regularly, whenever he got upset. Dr. Miller said, one last breakup, if you break up it's for real. My ex still broke up that week. Then Dr. Miller suggested to try again, but just no option to break up. (He's already changing his mind.) He advised my ex that breaking up was just as destructive as infidelity and that he wouldn't advise someone to stay in a relationship where their partner kept breaking up with them. My ex still broke up with me that week. I figured we were done. My ex did a session on his own and convinced me to continue in therapy. Dr. Miller once again advised we don't break up. My ex still broke up a couple more times over the next couple weeks and I was feeling very done. My ex did another session in his own and told me Dr. Miller had said I should just disregard his breaking up. I went to another session and Dr. Miller was saying we just needed to decide one way or another. At that point he said that my ex breaking up with me was no big deal and I should just disregard it, which was in stark opposition to his former assertions that it was very destructive. So finally, I said fine, I will commit. My ex had actually truly committed then too. We went to the next session, both committed and Dr. Miller spent the entire session pondering why we were still together, mostly just ruminating. He still did not even get us talking to each other! Clearly my ex and I were pretty miserable at that point. Only once, in all those weeks of therapy, did Dr. Miller ever start teaching us the EFT communication techniques. He spent most of each session wondering and talking about how we were chaotic and none of what we were doing made sense. Including when we followed his advice. He dismissed my feelings about my ex invalidating me, criticizing me and breaking up with me regularly as no big deal. He said if his wife did that, he would just go to the pub. Overall, Dr. Miller did not help us at all. In fact, our relationship went steeply downhill after starting therapy. Before that we weren't in great shape, but we still enjoyed a lot together. By the end, there was no joy left in our relationship. Of course I can't blame that on Dr. Miller, but he definitely did not help and I believe he made things much worse.
I wish I had read the reviews here before seeing Dr Miller. There's nothing like opening up your trauma with a therapist and having them say "that's not trauma, why are you crying?" every time you cry. It has taken a lot of work to undo the harm I experienced. I left his sessions feeling very clouded and confused. I should have known then that those are signs of abuse and gaslighting, but you place a certian amount of trust in trained professionals. It was an obscene amount of money to spend on such a bad experience. I felt like a science experiment. You may ask, why did you keep going? Because I was desperate to save my marriage of 17 years. His guidance always involved more therapy - not sure what that is all about. I seriously caution anyone from seeing him.
Very knowledgeable, helpfull therapy, he has helped me a lot
There are no words to describe how degraded and disrespected within the first 20 minutes of our first appointment. My husband and I sought help with him and during our first session I was appalled by his lack of emotion and empathy. I suffer from extremely high anxiety and he sent me into a tailspin of depression. He was rude and arrogant, and determined to blame his lack of help on my anxiety. I will never speak to him again, and I feel in 50 mins he did more harm to our relationship.
This Doctor is a Narcistic Pig. He is a bully. My now Ex ,thanks to Kevin Miller, and I went to see him and he just started blaming me for every issue we had. He looked back at my single days before I met my now Ex. It was all my fault - my Ex was not the jealous type according to Kevin Miller. In order for our relationship (already 4 yrs) to continue I had to be humble and do exactly what my Ex wanted until my Ex decided that I could be trusted. So the first requests were that I stop being friends/ don't talk with my 80yr old male neighbour and kick out my 4 tenants that lived upstairs. This was all because my Ex had issues with the friendship i had with those people - who i knew longer than i knew my Ex. No relationship that has issues is only one persons fault but according to Kevin Miller it is!!! Turns out my Ex is Narcistic also. We broke up the day of the second visit with Kevin Miller. His office is an out building (shed like) that is mouse infested and electrical boxes and breaker boxes open to the public, but health canada will do nothing because it is not a place serving food. NOT RECOMMENDED - THIS MAN SHOULD LOOSE HIS LICENSE
The score associated to this individual speaks! Very Unpleasant experience.
Yawned throughout our sessions, didn’t remember things I told him like my child’s name. And was quite heartless in his delivery of course of treatment. Ended up walking out in the middle of the 5th session as he couldn’t have cared less if I got the help I came for he admitted he would get paid regardless. Be warned....Kevin Miller is in it for the money.
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