Joshua Le Clair

• PSYC 2490 - Abnormal Psychology
• PSYC 4540 - Clinical Hypnosis
• PSYC 7290 - Psychopathology and Diagnosis

Dr. Josh Le Clair (he/him) is an Instructor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba who is currently completing supervised clinical practice towards licensure. He earned his PsyD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Prince Edward Island and holds a MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario. During his doctoral studies Dr. Le Clair completed a clinical internship year in Winnipeg working in the areas of university student counselling and community mental health.

Clinically, Dr. Le Clair is a generalist practitioner primarily trained in psychological assessment and intervention with adults. He has received advanced training in Ericksonian psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis through the Milton H. Erickson Foundation. At present, Dr. Le Clair is completing a multi-year training program in relational Gestalt psychotherapy through the Pacific Gestalt Institute. He is interested in creative and experiential approaches to psychological transformation and his clinical work is theoretically influenced by radical constructivism, Batesonian epistemology, and second-order cybernetics.

• PsyD (Clinical Psychology), University of Prince Edward Island, 2025
• BA Honours (Psychology), University of Western Ontario, 2021
• MSc (Applied Mathematics), University of Western Ontario, 2018
• BESc (Mechanical and Materials Engineering), University of Western Ontario, 2016

Research interests

• Epistemological foundations of clinical practice
• Reflexive and philosophically informed practice
• Creative and experiential approaches to psychotherapy
• Critical perspectives on clinical psychology

Research summary

Broadly, Dr. Le Clair's research interests centre on the epistemological and methodological foundations of clinical practice—examining how different theoretical frameworks shape how problems are understood, experienced, and approached in psychotherapy. He is drawn to questions about how clinical approaches construct personal experience, how different paradigms privilege or obscure certain therapeutic possibilities, and how practitioners can develop more reflexive, philosophically informed approaches to understanding psychological suffering and promoting transformational change. Previously, Dr. Le Clair's work has applied Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to critically examine contemporary therapeutic practices with sexual minority individuals from these perspectives.

• LeClair, J. (2025). Sexual dis-orientation: a Lacanian critique of current perspectives on sexuality in clinical practice [Doctoral thesis]. University of Prince Edward Island.