Instructor
Humanities and Social Sciences
Psychology
N3427 (NW) or B3165 (COQ)
About
- Faculty, °µÍø51
- Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC)
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of British Columbia (UBC)
- Private practice in downtown Vancouver
Teaching Concentrations
- Clinical psychology
- Psychopathology
- Developmental psychology.
Professional Affiliations and Community Service
- British Columbia Psychological Association
- Canadian Psychological Association, member
Hobbies and Interests
Spending time in the outdoors, open-water swimming, and traveling
Education and credentials
- Licensed Psychologist
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pathways Counselling Centre, California, USA
- PhD, Sofia University, California
- MA, Sofia University. California
- BA, Naropa University, Colorado
Research summary
Diversity Competency in Psychotherapy; Sociopolitical Factors in Psychotherapy; LGBTQ+ mental health; Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Publications and other research outputs
- Sehrbrock, J. (In Press). Social thirdness: Intersubjective reflections on the experience of sex and gender prejudice. In E. Shane & S. Berlin (Eds), Troubling relationality: Gay and gendered life in psychoanalysis.
- Sehrbrock, J. (2026). Psychological practice with LGBTQ+ populations. Presentation to the Vancouver Coastal Health Psychology Residency program, Online Presentation, March 6, 2026.
- Sehrbrock, J. (2025). The politics of being a psychodynamic therapist. Presentation as part of the Psychodynamic Researcher and Therapist Speaker Series at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
- Sehrbrock, J. (2021). Social justice on the couch: Collapse and repair of social thirdness. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 37(4), 673–689.
- Sehrbrock, J. (2021). Social justice on the couch: Addressing sociopolitical dimensions and dynamics in psychotherapy. Presentation at the Calgary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Education, Online Presentation, March 21, 2021.
- Sehrbrock, J. (2020). Social thirdness: Intersubjective conceptions of the experience of gender prejudice. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 15(3), 289–295.
- Sehrbrock, J. (2020). Psychotherapy with LGBTQ Populations: 10 Clinical Competencies. Psychology Residency Seminars Series at Vancouver General Hospital, October 2020.
- Sehrbrock, J. (2015). Collaborative care: Why it matters to psychologists and how any psychologist can be part of it. BC Psychologist, Fall 2015, 17–19.
- Chotem, M., Cave, D., Sehrbrock, J., & Gambrel, R. (2015). Psychologists’ role in primary and community care in British Columbia. Submission to the Government of British Columbia Ministry of Health: British Columbia Psychological Association.
- Sehrbrock, J., & DeGagne, T. (2014). Primary care psychology: Increasing capacity and decreasing barriers to psychological services through integrated care. BC Psychologist, 3(4), 26–28.