About Me

 

I hold three graduate degrees, including a doctorate in psychology, and have spent the better part of two decades at the intersection of psychological science, clinical practice, and institutional design.

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Before clinical practice, I spent years teaching it. Courses spanned research methods, adolescent development, community mental health, behaviour dynamics, belief and skepticism, and communication and counselling skills, at both undergraduate and graduate level, across Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Guelph, University of Guelph-Humber, and Ontario Tech University.

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That work was accompanied by peer-reviewed publications in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Law and Human Behavior, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and Perceptual and Motor Skills, and a book chapter in Psychology and the Law: Canadian Perspectives. I served on the editorial board of Law and Human Behavior, the official journal of the American Psychology-Law Society.

 

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The clinical and institutional work built on that foundation. As an embedded clinician at the University of Waterloo, I worked with high-achieving students under sustained academic and professional pressure. At Havergal College, I designed and led the school's first institutional wellbeing framework from the ground up. I later led national curriculum design for the University of Waterloo's Mental Health Literacy Certificate. Earlier consulting work included contributing to a biopsychosocial model of resilience for the Department of National Defence.

 

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What ties it together is a sustained focus on one question.

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How capable people come to feel constrained by their own minds, and what it actually takes to change that.

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That question runs through the clinical work and the institutional work equally.

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​It is the same work, applied at different levels.