Todd Kettner

Interests

• rural health care
• anxiety disorders
• neurodevelopmental disorders
• clinical supervision and ethics
• climate grief

Faculty bio

 My career spans post-secondary teaching, clinical practice and community engagement. Following my pre-doctoral residency in the Rural and Northern training programme in Clinical Health Psychology at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine, I was hired as an Assistant Professor.

After moving from Manitoba back to British Columbia, I founded Summit Psychology Group in Nelson – a practice that provides psychological assessments and empirically supported psychological treatments. As Summit attracted other registered psychologists to rural practice, my colleagues and I supervised graduate students from UBC, SFU and U of C.

My community work has included consulting on physician wellness and social determinants of health for the KB Division of Family Practice; leading professional development workshops across western Canada to psychologists, physicians, nurses, police, and youth workers; working with the Red Cross to provide psychosocial support to persons displaced by forest fires and floods; and providing crisis interventions for K-12 students, educators and first responders.

My volunteer work has been as president of the British Columbia Psychological Association, on the College of Psychologists of BC (now CHCPBC) registration committee, on the Canadian Psychological Association’s Rural and Northern section continuing education working group, as board chair of the Kalein Hospice Centre, on the MIR Centre for Peace advisory board, and with Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health.

I teach courses in clinical psychology, health psychology, developmental psychopathology, adult psychopathology and climate grief. I provide clinical supervision of psychological treatment and assessment for our graduate students.