Education

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Master of Arts Degree, Clinical Psychology                                                              Lakehead University
September 1994 – November 1996                                                                           Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

• Areas of study included psychological assessment, psychotherapy models and application, and interviewing and counseling techniques.

• Master’s thesis: Parenting Styles and Adolescent Problem Behaviors: A Search for Moderator Variables.

 

Honors Bachelor of Arts Degree, Psychology                                                           Lakehead University
September 1990 – May 1994                                                                                       Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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Experience

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Tenured Psychology Faculty                                                                                       Minneapolis College
August 2017 – present                                                                                                Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Instructor for students of General Psychology, Applying Psychology, Lifespan Development, Positive Psychology, Introduction to Educational Psychology, and Social Psychology classes.

• Hybrid, face-to-face, and asynchronous course delivery – downtown campus

• TREC Program – Faribault, Stillwater, and Lino Lakes campuses – 2021 through 2023; 2025

• Member of Academic Affairs and Standards Council – Aug. 2015 through Dec. 2016

• Eight external presentations and keynote addresses between 2017 and 2019

• Regular presenter for Student Success Day (pre-Covid, including a shared keynote address)

• Participation in the Center for Teaching and Learning

• May 2024 – signed contract with Cognella (publisher) to produce a new, fully digital, and interactive Introduction to Psychology textbook as the sole author; preliminary edition published December 2025; full first edition scheduled for August 2026.

 

Adjunct Faculty                                                                                                            Various colleges in the Twin Cities

January 2004 - 2017

• Instructor for students of General Psychology, Lifespan Development, and Adolescent Psychology

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Psychometrist                                                                                                               Children’s Centre Thunder Bay
August 1996 to October 2003                                                                                     Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

• Conducted psychological assessments with children, adolescents, and their families as part of outpatient services and within court-mandated youth offender program.

• Worked individually and collaboratively, as part of a multidisciplinary team, in the provision of counseling/therapy to children, adolescents, and families in an outpatient setting.  

• Areas of expertise include treatment of ADHD, aggressive and oppositional behavior, parental management of difficult behaviors, child/adolescent development, family conflict, affective disorders, behavioral disorders, and eating disorders. 

• Facilitated educational and treatment groups: separation/divorce for children, anger management for adolescents, coping skills for adolescent girls, parenting skills, and parenting skills for addressing adolescents with eating disorders.

• Provided counseling to adolescents and consultation to staff 5 hours each week at a local Catholic high school; training to high school staff regarding assessment and intervention with depressed and suicidal adolescents; and intensive training in peer mediation and conflict resolution to grade 5-8 students and staff at a local public school.

• Presented information on ADHD, stress management in children, eating disorders, peer sexual harassment/abuse, difficult to manage behaviors in the school setting, connecting schools and community resources, school staff morale, and personality disorders.

• Provided intake and case screening for the consulting child and adolescent psychiatrist.  

• Participated in research projects including one to assess victimization in public schools.​