Ms. Leland has worked for Alberta Health Services (AHS) at a maximum security inpatient forensic psychiatric hospital since 2007.  In her role, she provides assessments for individuals with potential mental health difficulties who have been charged or convicted of a criminal offence.  She routinely completes court assessments addressing issues around fitness to stand trial, criminal responsibility, recidivism risk, as well as Long Term and Dangerous Offender applications.  During her employment, she also volunteered with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) committee, which provides ongoing learning opportunities to colleagues with forensic grand rounds and annual conferences.

Ms. Leland worked at medium and maximum security prisons where she provided psychological assessments for intake, suicide risk, program suitability, security classification, and the National Parole Board (NPB) to address risk and release of correctional inmates back into the community.  She also provided individual therapy and group treatment for violence prevention, sexual offending, and family violence programming.  In 2006, Ms. Leland was bestowed an appreciation award from the Correctional Service Canada (CSC) for her dedication and work as a member of the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) team, which provides services to correctional staff who were involved in serious incidents.

In addition to working in the federal system, Ms. Leland was employed at the Calgary Young Offender Centre (CYOC), working with adolescents and young adults who have been charged or convicted of a criminal offence.  In 2012, Ms. Leland was bestowed a professional recognition award from the Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security for her work as the Clinical Team Lead for the development and implementation of a violence prevention program for at risk male youths who have been convicted of a serious violent offence.  Ms. Leland continues to be a respected treatment provider for adolescents and young adults in the Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision (IRCS) program, a federal program responsible for providing specialized therapeutic services for youth with mental health needs who are convicted of a serious violent offence.

Ms. Leland is an esteemed colleague with the Baxter Forensic Group.  She values her positive relationships working with individual clients and as a consultant to other mental health clinicians, medical doctors, legal professionals, the Courts, and government agencies.  Ms. Leland’s private practice is Lex Psychology Corporation where she provides psychological evaluations, forensic risk assessments, fitness for duty (FFD) evaluations, and litigation support.  Clinical psychological assessments include the use of psychometric tests and provide information regarding diagnostic impressions, cognitive and executive functioning, memory, personality, and psychopathology.  Ms. Leland also values her role as a treating clinician, working with individuals from a variety of contexts, including the Calgary Police Service (CPS), adolescents and young adults, offenders, and the general public.

One of Terra’s primary interests is working with families of divorce and separation, and she has been practicing in this specialty for close to a decade. In this role she conducts a variety of interventions including, but not limited to, Practice Note 7 Therapeutic and Evaluative Interventions (i.e. The Voice of the Child; Therapeutic Intervention with One Parent, Both Parents, Child Only, Parents and Children; Parent-Child Reunification). She assists and supports families during and after their family transition, which encompasses roles such as, Counselling for children, adolescents and adults as well as Divorce Consultant and Parenting Coordination.

Another predominant focus of Terra’s practice is counselling for children, adolescents and adults. She has had extensive experience working in a University setting as well as in her private practice. She provides counselling with primary focuses on depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, self-esteem, stress management, career development, relationship matters and issues surrounding grief and loss.

Terra uses her experience and knowledge to assist individuals and families in achieving a better quality of life.

Dr. Clark has lectured at the University level and presented at nationally and internationally renowned conferences. Dr. Clark has extensive training and expertise in the criminal and civil forensic arena. She has been qualified as an expert witness and provided expert testimony in the Provincial Court of Alberta and the Court of Queen’s Bench.

Prior to returning to Alberta, her practice included individual and group psychotherapy, as well as conducting comprehensive assessments using Evidence-Based Practices for Child Protective Services and the Department of Justice, in San Diego, California.

Dr. Clark has a wealth of clinical experience working with children and families dealing with severe trauma and abuse. She also provided psychological services and consultation for children and adolescents required to testify in criminal and civil hearings. Dr. Clark provided intensive sex offending and substance abuse treatment for juvenile and adult sexual offenders.

Dr. Clark’s involvement within the psycho-legal arena has led her to specialize in high conflict Child Custody Evaluations (Practice Note 8: Parenting Time/Parenting Responsibilities Assessments), Risk Assessments, Mediation, Parenting Coordination-Arbitration, Practice Note 7 Interventions (Therapeutic and Evaluative), Consultation and Litigation Support.

Dr. Clark’s current clinical practice includes working with children, adolescents, and adults. She provides individual and couples therapy. Her special interests include: life transitions, interpersonal relationship concerns, human sexuality, stress management, as well as anxiety and depression.