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Fargo, Nd, Us

Fargo, Nd, Us

Founded, and manage, this outpatient clinical practice in 2005, which now employees 13 staff (clinical and forensic psychologists, licensed social workers, licensed professionals clinical counselors and psychometrists).Complete general and forensic psychological evaluations for a wide range of presenting problems. Examples include (but are not limited to); Risk Assessments on Sexual Offenders, Independent Evaluations on respondents civilly committed at the North Dakota State Hospital as Sexually Dangerous Individuals, Court ordered psychological evaluations, Gastric Bypass pre-surgery evaluations, Pre employment evaluations, Threat assessments, Parental Capacity Evaluations, Competency to Stand Trial and Criminal Responsibility Evaluations, Fitness for Duty, Psychological Injuries, Transfer of Juvenile to Adult Court, and more.Provide training and public speaking on issues related to the field of Clinical and Forensic psychology, most often related to sexual offenders or sexual behavior.I have testified as an expert witness in state, federal and military court. I have testified on issues related to Sex Offender Risk Assessments, Parental Capacity, Criminal Responsibility, Competency to Stand Trial, Civil Commitment of Sexually Dangerous Individuals, Child Pornography, Sexual Assault, PTSD, Disability, Wrongful Termination, Transferring Juveniles to Adult Court and more.

Fargo, Nd, Us

I have been an invited speaker at the ND Bar Association (Indigent Defense and Guardian ad Litem conferences) the UND medical school (4X), UND psychology program (4X), the ND Psychological Association (4X), the ND Department of Corrections and Parole and Probation (3X), PATH, Real Estate Commission (3X), Prairie St. Johns, Merit Care, ND Mental Health Ethics group, UND Northern Lights Psychology Conference, ND Behavioral Health Summit (2X), Southeast Human Service Center (10+), South Central Human Service Center, Northeast Human Service Center, West Central Regional Juvenile Center, Bethel Church, Recovery Church, Red River Valley Children’s Advocacy Conference, Minnesota Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers Annual Conference (3X), and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.I have also spoken on Valley News Live, WDAY, KVLY, Fox News, WDAZ, North Dakota Today, KFGO, and Prairie Public Radio on a wide variety of topics, most typically related to sexual violence, sex offending, healthy sexual relationships and keeping children safe.I have presented on the following topics:Static 99R Certification WorkshopsStable 2007, Acute 2007 Certification WorkshopsCore Correctional PracticesRisk Assessments: Past, Present and FuturePsychopathySupporting Children with Sexual Behavioral Problems Sex Offenders and HousingEthical Clinical Supervision Risk Assessments on Sexual Offenders Understanding, Identifying and Treating Personality DisordersUnderstanding, Identifying and Treating Generalized Anxiety DisorderUnderstanding, Identifying and Treating Sexual DisordersUnderstanding, Identifying and Treating Panic DisorderUnderstanding, Identifying and Treating Sexual ParaphilliasUnderstanding, Identifying and Treating Personality DisordersUnderstanding, Identifying and Treating OCD

Fargo, Nd, Us

Cofounded this nonprofit organization, with an annual budget of 1 million+, that provides sex offender treatment and assessment throughout the state of North Dakota. Current offices located in Dickinson, Grand Forks, Devils Lake, Bismarck, Minot, Jamestown and Fargo. Duties include preparing the yearly budget for board approval and prudently managing organizational resources within those budget guidelines according to current laws and regulations. Provide supervision and oversight to all staff. Implement and enforce quality control measures to ensure fidelity to the model, high quality clinical care, and documentation standards. Report to Board of Directors and ensure they have up to date, accurate information. Represent the company at legislative sessions, committee meetings and at formal functions. Present company report at annual board of directors meetings. Plan strategies and developmental plans for the welfare of the organization, Give direction and leadership toward the achievement of the organization's philosophy, mission, strategy, and its annual goals and objectives. Provide training to clinical staff and ensure clinical staff have the resources to provide the needed services. Ensure cost effective management of resources. Monitor current contracts to ensure compliance, and continue to seek out new contracts and service delivery options that align with our mission and vision.

Grand Forks, North Dakota, Us

Responsible for the teaching/supervision of psychiatry residents and medical students completing their forensic rotation at the University of North Dakota.

Fargo, Nd, Us

Responsibilities included preparing for, lecturing to, developing tests for, and providing formal evaluations of performance on, approximately 300-1000 students per year. This very popular course was offered as both a traditional lecture class, as well as a web based, distance learning version.

Chief Psychologist:I started as a psychology resident in 1998, and then for nearly 10 years I was employed as the Chief Psychologist of this Community Mental Health Center. My duties included supervising and overseeing the psychology department, the counseling department and the Sexual Abuse Treatment Team, Coordinating the referrals for psychological evaluations, Conducting Psychological Evaluations, primarily with adults (Specializing in conducting Risk Assessments on Sex Offenders and other court ordered evaluations) Providing individual therapy to adult males and females, Providing staff training both within and outside the agency, Providing input / approval on diagnosis and treatment plans through multidisciplinary case conferences and informal consultation, attendance at Supervisors Meeting and other duties as assigned.Director of Clinical Training: Founded, Coordinated and Directed our APPIC member internship Program. This internship marked the first APPIC member internship Program in the state of North Dakota. It became the first APA approved internship in the state of North Dakota while I was still employed there, but had resigned from the Director of Training position. I was instrumental in the two year process to get APA approval.

Part time work while working full time at Southeast Human Service Center and teaching at NDSU. Completed psychological evaluations and forensic consultation, specializing in evaluations of sexual offenders

I completed my psychology internship at this APA approved internship site in a Federal Prison 4 days per week. During my year there I provided individual therapy with incarcerated adult males and females, group therapy with incarcerated adult females, psychological evaluations on adult incarcerated females, crisis intervention as needed, jail screenings (suicidality, dangerousness, medication needs, etc.)psychiatric consultation exposure, provided staff training on working with Axis II Disorders and took part in the Annual Hostage Negotiation/SORT Training

I completed Psychological Evaluations on a full range of patients from children to geriatric in an inpatient psychiatric hospital one day per week. Evaluations included objective, projective, intellectual, achievement and /or neuropsychological testing.

Psy.D. In Clinical Psychology (Apa Accredited), Clinical Psychology

B.A. In Psychology And A Minor In Business Management, Psychology, Business, Criminal Justice