About Dr. Raymond Shred
I have been privileged to live all over Canada. I was born in Winnipeg, grew up in Montreal, went to Graduate School in New Brunswick, did my pre-doctoral internship in Calgary, worked in Winnipeg and several reserve communities in Northern Manitoba, and lived and worked in Fort St. John, BC for almost 10 years, before finally arriving in Nanaimo. Although I've only been here for 6 years, it feels like I'm home again.
I live with my wife (who is a teacher), my son (who plays violin and softball), my daughter (who plays piano and basketball), my dog (who plays whatever you want), and my cat (who plays whatever she wants). My children are in elementary school and I spend as much time as I can with them. My hobbies are all future oriented. I would like to do more woodworking - all I need is more time and some talent. I often dream of boating around our Gulf Islands and the Inside passage but first I need to get a boat.
I have worked in the field of psychology for over 20 years and I have been a Registered Psychologist in BC for over 10 years. My MA and PhD are from the University of New Brunswick. In the beginning, I specialized in Child Development and have found that background helpful in working with people of all ages. I have noticed that the adults with whom I work are all former children. I enjoy working both with individuals and with families.
I like to do assessments of individual learning for both children and adults; these focus on identifying a person's strengths and weaknesses. I also help to identify issues that could interfere with improving on the strengths and overcoming the weaknesses. That includes attention deficit and auditory processing skills as well as emotional issues that could interfere with learning. I am really excited about being able to offer a treatment for attention problems that is psychologically based - the working memory training program, RoboMemo, that you can read about here.
I enjoy conducting assessments that help to answer legal questions about personal injury, disability, and child custody.
In therapy, I help people identify the thoughts, feelings, or behaviour they want to change and help them to find a way to change. I have found that EMDR and biofeedback are both helpful tools to help people obtain a sense of peace within themselves. Many issues that bring people to therapy have their origins with how information about past events is stored in the brain.
We remember events in a variety of ways and things can act as triggers to recall the memory. These triggers can be words, sounds, voices, tactile sensations, smells, and other things. EMDR is one treatment method that can help people identify and reduce the power of those triggers to evoke negative feelings.
Here are the primary professional associations to which I belong:
- College of Psychologists of British Columbia (Registration Number 1268)
- Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology (Registration Number 5812)
- B.C. Psychological Association
- Canadian Psychological Association
- American Psychological Association
Division 42, Psychologists in Independent Practice
Division 56, Trauma Psychology
- Association of Family & Conciliation Courts
- Central Vancouver Island Crisis Society
FYI, the pictures at the top of each page are of local sights in Nanaimo. Most of the photos were taken by me, some of the others are stock photos. My goal is replace them all with my own photos of local flora and fauna.
