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, enough

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 medium poodle. 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

Clinics & Practices

Alberta Hospital Edmonton

University of Alberta Hospital

Operational Stress Injury Clinic

Villa Caritas Hospital

Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital

Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic

Center for Newcomers

Kaye Edmonton Clinic

Canadian Mental Health Assoc.

University of Alberta

Severe Psychopathology Treatment & Assessment – Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

Group and Individual Treatment & Assessment – Outpatient Psychiatric Hospital

Interdisciplinary Health Assessment – Complex Neurology Symptoms Clinic

Operational Stress Therapy – Veteran's Affairs Canada Medical Center

Neurocognitive Assessment – Older Adults Hospital

General Rehabilitation – Intensive Outpatient Program

Chronic Pain Treatment – Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic

Advanced Multicultural Counselling – Community Mental Health

Chronic Pain Treatment – Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic

Group Therapy – Suicide Bereavement Groups

Young Adult Treatment – University Student Counselling

Intervention, Groups, & Assessment – Community Mental Health Clinic