Dr. Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson officially retired as Lead Psychologist with the Collaborative Centre for Justice and Safety at the University of Regina, Canada in 2022, but he remains as an adjunct professor of psychology with that institution and continues in private practice. He began his career as an educational psychologist in the 1980s and subsequently obtained a doctorate in counselling psychology from the University of Calgary.
His technique of mapping the self has been applied to counselling patients experiencing depression, addictions and suicide ideation. He has also published on the psychological impacts of Indian residential schools, the use of a community development process to combat high rates of youth suicide, prior learning assessment and recognition in the formation of identity, the construction of the (North American) aboriginal self, cross-cultural counselling, the concept of free will in psychotherapy, secular humanist weddings in Canada, and male stigma as it affects men’s identity.
He is currently President of the New Enlightenment Project: A Canadian Humanist Initiative.