Jocelyn Monsma Selby

Dr. Jocelyn Monsma Selby is Chair of Connecting to Protect – a public health response to address the mental health and safety consequences of children and young people accessing online pornography. ​ Jocelyn’s career in Mental Health has spanned over 40 years in the Calgary community, as a chairperson and vice-chair building several community organizations, including an international school. ​ Jocelyn has been a long-term member of the Dean’s Advisory Circle to the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary which has a presence on several university campuses throughout the Province of Alberta. She has received the honour of “Distinguished Graduate” from the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary in both 2010 and 2017 and been nominated for the Lieutenant Governors “True leadership Award” for her work in the community. ​ Jocelyn has worked in a variety of therapeutic roles including the Calgary Police Service, University of Calgary & Bank of Montreal. She is known for her success in working with very difficult cases and is a highly regarded addiction treatment specialist who has managed treatment programs for adolescents and adults and supervised the clinical work of therapists who provide addiction treatment throughout Canada and the United States. Jocelyn currently manages Monsma Counselling - a Continuing Care outpatient treatment program for addiction, specializing in forensic assessment of individuals with problematic sexual behaviours. During the past several years she has completed doctoral research in the assessment of problematic sexual behaviours and researched the harm caused by children’s unfettered access to legal online pornography. Jocelyn has presented internationally on Crisis Intervention, Workplace Wellness and Addiction.