She regularly teaches abnormal psychology, forensic psychology, and senior courses in clinical psychology and on forensic psychology topics, and she was recently a recipient of the MacEwan Distinguished Teaching Award. She is an active researcher and educator who had published research on sexual and violent offenders, risk assessment, and criminal justice decision-making, and actively provides supervision of honours students and individual study research. Prior to her current academic position, she was a forensic psychologist at an outpatient forensic clinic. She serves on the executive board of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) and on the editorial board for Sexual Abuse, and at MacEwan, she is the faculty co-chair on the Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Committee (SVPEC).