Mina Klein

Mina – ("little flower" in Persian) – Dadvar Klein died of cancer on March 12, 2025. Born in Iran, her father was a general in the Shah's army and chief architect of Iran's major civil and military projects. She immigrated after the fall of the Shah to the United States, earned a Masters Degree in Psychology. Always a caretaker, she worked with highly disturbed teenagers in a residential facility and then schizophrenics, some of whom she successfully treated with talk therapy, which then was thought to be impossible. Then she built a private practice in the which she treated many of the Iranian community which was at the time not known for embracing psychotherapy, as well as many other ethnicities. A loving mother to her son Daniel (and the family dogs, Panda and Sophie) and fine partner to her husband, Bernard, who credits her with bringing him to life. As good as psychotherapist as she was, Bernard believes she missed her true calling – a lawyer. It was not wise to get into an argument with her. Service private.