About Jon

Getting the right fit means also getting to know me a bit!

And since I believe good therapy means working with real people (sorry, chatGPT), here's a bit about me.

A love for nerdy things

I spend a fair bit of time playing long-form board games (e.g., Frosthaven), tabletop role-playing games (e.g., Dungeons and Dragons, Daggerheart) and video games.

Athletic, ish

I used to do competitive track & field + cross-country running. Now I spend most of my excess energy cycling to work, playing beach volleyball, or twisting my ankle on a pickleball court.

Papa Jon

I'm also a very recently minted father to both my daughter and my poodle puppy. Together with my wife, we go on long walks, run around the house, and wake up for snacks at 4am (unwillingly).

Want to know a bit more?

Absolutely! Choosing the right psychologist can be tough. You've probably read through a couple dozen PsychToday profiles and websites at this point. Here's my education and supervised clinical experience:

Education

Ph.D.
University of Alberta

Residency

M.Ed.

University of Alberta

Counselling Psychology (CPA-Accredited)

Department of Educational Psychology

Dissertation: Psychologists’ Practices, Training, and Experiences Conducting Suicide Risk Assessment in Canada: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study

Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 2023 | Canadian Psychological Association
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 2023 | Psychologists' Association of Alberta

Edmonton Consortium Clinical Psychology Residency (CPA-Accredited)

Counselling Psychology

Department of Educational Psychology

Thesis: Psychologists' experiences of suicide risk assessment

B.Sc. (Hons)

University of Alberta

1st Class Honours Psychology

Department of Psychology

Thesis: Intrahippocampal Anisomycin impairs spatial performance on the Morris Water Maze

Clinical Training

Where I've worked under clinical supervision

Alberta Hospital Edmonton | Severe Psychopathology Treatment & Assessment – Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital
Alberta Hospital Edmonton | Group and Individual Treatment & Assessment – Outpatient Psychiatric Hospital
University of Alberta Hospital | Interdisciplinary Health Assessment – Complex Neurology Symptoms Clinic
Operational Stress Injury Clinic | Operational Stress Therapy – Veteran's Affairs Canada Medical Center
Villa Caritas Hospital | Neurocognitive Assessment – Older Adults Hospital
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital | General Rehabilitation – Intensive Outpatient Program
Kaye Edmonton Clinic | Chronic Pain Treatment – Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic
Center for Newcomers | Advanced Multicultural Counselling – Community Mental Health
Canadian Mental Health Assoc. | Group Therapy – Suicide Bereavement Groups
University of Alberta | Young Adult Treatment – University Student Counselling
University of Alberta | Intervention, Groups, & Assessment – Community Mental Health Clinic