Speaking
Keynotes and workshops on reading people, hearing bad news in time, and adult ADHD, from a psychiatrist who spent eight seasons inside professional hockey.
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I grew up in Ste-Anne-du-Ruisseau, an Acadian village in Nova Scotia with about sixty people in it. I asked so many questions as a kid that my classmates once put their hands on my head and prayed for all of them to be answered. It did not cure me.
I came to psychiatry through kinesiology, exercise physiology and medicine. My clinical work has ranged from caring for people living with homelessness and polysubstance use to working with professional athletes and executives. For eight years, I worked as a mental health consultant for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Marlies. I also helped develop proposed mental health minimum standards for the NHL. Across those settings, I keep coming back to the same question: what would make this better—for the person in front of me, the team around them, or the system they depend on?
That question connects the work I do today: clinical practice, teaching, performance coaching, writing and building software. I teach at the University of British Columbia and the University of Calgary, and co-wrote The Psychology of High-Performance Sports Organizations. Whether I’m assessing adult ADHD, leading an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) group, teaching a coach or developing software, I try to be precise about what we know, honest about what we don’t, and practical about what to do next.
