Dr. Vokey achieved a BA (First Class Honours), MA, and PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Manitoba. Her clinical research interests pertain to gender and psychopathology. Her master’s and doctoral research examined the negative mental health consequences of hyper-masculine cultural portrayals of boys and men and sexualised portrayals of young girls.

Dr. Vokey completed her pre-doctoral clinical residency at the Edmonton Clinical Psychology Consortium, where she gained specialized clinical experience across Pediatrics (Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital and University of Alberta Hospital), Adolescent and Adult Eating Disorders (University of Alberta Hospital), and Adult Psychiatry (University of Alberta Hospital and Alberta Hospital Edmonton).

She has clinical experience assessing and treating a wide range of mental disorders, including severe psychopathology and acute, life-threatening illness. Prior to working in a private practice, Dr. Vokey joined the Department of Clinical Health Psychology, Health Sciences Centre, serving on a multidisciplinary medical team for the Adult Eating Disorder Program (2013-2019). She provided psychological consultation, assessments, individual therapy, and group therapy for inpatients, intensive day program patients, and outpatients with disordered eating and co-occurring psychopathology (e.g., personality disorders, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders). She also participated in program planning and evaluation and presented clinical research for joint rounds.

She has worked in private practice since 2014 providing psychological assessment and psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults. As part of her practice, she specializes in LGBTQ mental health and provides consultation, assessment, treatment and advocacy for transgender children, adolescents, adults, and their families.

Dr. Vokey mentors early career therapists and provides clinical supervision to graduate-level psychologists in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University and Clinical Psychology at the University of Manitoba completing their graduate practicum. Student therapists provide free and low-cost therapy for children, adolescents, and adults.

Dr. Vokey has an integrative therapeutic approach, blending various empirically supported therapies (e.g., cognitive, behavioural, psychodynamic, interpersonal, family systems) rooted within a humanistic framework, tailored to the unique needs and characteristics of her clients. Her approach is lifespan-developmental and trauma-informed. Dr. Vokey’s conceptualization of mental health is grounded in an understanding of the sociopolitical context of mental illness and can include liberation, empowerment, and transformational therapeutic strategies and goals.