After employment from 2018 to 2022 in California as an independently licensed clinical psychologist I returned to the City of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada where my family has resided for many years. I enjoy the many activities that the City of Saskatoon offers year round. In California I was a staff clinical neuropsychologist, staff prison psychologist and staff disability psychologist which provided an outstanding learning environment. I am licensed as a fully-independent clinical psychologist with the California Board of Psychology (PSY#29801). This license has remained in good standing since 2018.
I was employed as an independent contractor for five years in California working with my company Northern California Forensic Psychological Services Inc from 2021 to current. Prior to employment in California I was a provisional registered psychologist at the Wascana Rehabilitation Center in Regina Saskatchewan from 2010-2014. I was also employed as a provisional clinical psychologist in the State of Kentucky from 2009-2010 while living in Ashland.
Altogether I have had 10 years employment as a clinical psychologist or provisional psychologist and my experiences have been very diversified. I have enjoyed working in Canada and California as a staff neuropsychologist using the Boston Process approach and a set battery of short and longer duration. I have had the opportunity to train with skilled experienced clinical neuropsychologists. I was often routinely referred by the attending physicians at neurological hospitals and dementia wards. These medium-sized hospitals carried upwards of 100-250 patients which I was solely responsible for. I had the opportunity to use a bed-side neuropsychological evaluation with a paper and pencil and digital administered exam. This included a modification of the (CERAD) Consortium to Establish a Registry in Alzheimer Disease battery which could be administered in 60 minutes.
I received both Social Science Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and National Sciences Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) funding in the form of doctoral and post-doctoral funding at the University of Alberta. In Philadelphia I was provided with National Institute of Health (NIH) post-doctoral funding at the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania from 2004-2005. I received Canadian Institute of Health Research operating funding from the Department of Neuro-ophthalmology at the University of British Columbia from 2006-2007. Some of the key skills learned in California was using both DSM-5 and ICD-10 in tandem to clinically prioritize cases and complete a full case load on a daily basis using efficient and useful evaluations.
From 2010-2014 I was a provisional clinical psychologist at the Wascana Rehabilitation Centre in Regina Canada. At this time I was externally employed with Pearson Canada from 2011-2013 as an official examiner for the standardization project for the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - Fourth Edition (WPPSI-IV) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Fifth Edition (WISC-V). I was responsible for independently recruiting, evaluating and scoring a large sample of test protocols for children 2 to age 16.
I completed training through the California Commission on POST Police Officer Standards and Training in December of 2021. The POST program has been instrumental in the State of California for the screening, identification and selection of forensic psychologists seeking further advanced training. The POST suite of psychological, personality tests and interview protocols are widely viewed as at the forefront of identification and selection of police officers and forensic psychologists in California and the United States of America.
I have had ample experience working with dangerous populations including maximum security prisoners convicted of sexual assault or rape and/or violent acts such as murder or both. Working with such populations has taught me the importance of good documentation, consultation and informed consent to address safety issues. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has additional internal confidential resources for current or former staff that have experienced violence or intimidation or disruption of the judicial process.