About
Devin Pollitt, RSW, MSW, PhD(c)
As a mental health service provider with a decade of clinical experience, Devin Pollitt has focused most of his career providing clinical services in the Pacific Northwest. Additionally, Devin has provided both onsite mental health services, and specialized workshops & training in professional quality of life to remote Indigenous communities, some of which include the communities of Lax Kw’alaams, the four communities within the Nisga’a Nation (Gingolx, Gitwinksihlwk, Laxgalts’ap, and Gitlaxt’aamiks), the Haisla Nation, Kitselas First Nation, the Tahltan Nation, and the Tsilhqot’in Nation.
As a Registered Social Worker licensed to provide clinical mental health services, Devin continues to offer clinical counselling services to community members insured under First Nations Health Authority, Pacific Blue Cross health benefits, Veterans Affairs Canada (Medavie Blue Cross), Police, Fire, and Rescue workers, and the general public. In addition to mental health services, Devin offers organizational and research consulting in the areas of program assessment, development, management, including community needs assessments. Additionally, Devin is also trained in section .211, views of the child court assessment/reports for family law disputes, as well as Gladue assessments/reports, and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM).
Educational Background:
Devin studied clinical psychology, research statistics, and social work, earning both a Bachelors and masters in clinical/research social work. Additionally, Devin is a doctoral candidate with Memorial University, Nfld, with his research focusing on the relationships between healthcare worker workplace value differences and their experiences of burnout, compassion satisfaction, and secondary trauma. Devin’s masters thesis involved analyzing data from a national, pan-Canadian study of palliative care Nurses, looking specifically at their workplace value differences and its relationship with professional quality of life outcomes using structural equation modelling methods. Devin was supervised by nationally recognized scholars in research and statistics, including Dr. Bruce Bidgood, Dr. Jonathan Alschech, and Dr. David Hemsworth.
His Doctoral research continues to expand this research at Memorial University, studying under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Ellenbogen, with the outcome being the development of novel measures of workplace value differences and professional quality of life for healthcare organizations, and tools to help organizations and workers decrease workplace value differences as a means to decreasing burnout and increasing compassion satisfaction.
Personally, Devin loves the outdoors, especially riding on road and off-road motorcycles, fishing, playing guitar and signing in live performances, and international travel. On the weekends Devin can be found spending time with his 11-year-old daughter and their Goldendoodle Rosie, and probably sitting in the hot tub on the deck or having a BBQ with friends after a long ski day, or hockey game.
Credentials:
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PhD(c): Doctoral Candidate
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MSW: Master of Social Work
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BSW: Bachelor of Social Work
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RSW: Registered Social Worker
Insurance and Affiliations
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Fully insured by AON (BMS Group) and WCB
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Provider/Direct billing for Medavie Bluecross Veterans Affairs Canada, First Nations Health Authority, and Pacific Bluecross (certain plans)
Therapeutic Focuses
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Trauma and Critical Incident Stress
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Addiction
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Grief and Loss
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Professional Burnout
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Relationship Issues/Communication Issues
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Depression, Anxiety and Stress
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Chronic Illness
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Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
Consulting Services
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Program Management
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Program Assessment
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Community Needs Assessments
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Management/Corporate Level Team Building and Coaching
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Research Projects
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Indigenous Community Relations
