Dr. Jakul’s practice includes psychological injury and Workers Compensation Board evaluations, return-to-work planning, and ongoing care for first responders and other professionals exposed to critical incidents, trauma, and chronic occupational stress.

In addition to her adult clinical work, Dr. Jakul has substantial forensic expertise that closely aligns with FPS’s broader forensic practice. She provides assessment and treatment to forensic and general clinical clients and has specific experience conducting violence and sexual-offence risk assessments, working with offenders with major mental illness, and providing services within correctional and psychology-law settings, including Stony Mountain Institution and the Forensic Drug Diversion Program at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Jakul’s training in forensic psychology is supported by a clinical residency in Clinical Psychology and Law Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. She has also published and presented in areas relevant to criminal justice and forensic practice, including mental illness in sentencing, women working in criminal justice settings, and the clinical challenges of working with individuals who have sexually offended. Her forensic work includes opinions and testimony in matters involving violence risk assessment, cognitive capacity, mental state at the time of the offence, psychological injury, and related criminal and civil questions. She has been qualified as an expert witness in Manitoba courts, with appearances in Provincial Court, the Court of King’s Bench, and the Manitoba Court of Appeal. 

In treatment, Dr. Jakul uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy as core evidence-based approaches for PTSD, depression, anxiety, and related conditions. Her broader background in hospital-based adult services, substance-use treatment, personality-disorder work, and complex comorbidity supports a sophisticated, integrated approach to clients whose trauma, occupational stress, mental illness, and forensic concerns overlap. ssing Therapy as core evidence-based approaches for PTSD, depression, anxiety, and related conditions. Her broader background in hospital-based adult services, substance-use treatment, personality-disorder work, and complex comorbidity supports a sophisticated, integrated approach to clients whose trauma, occupational stress, mental illness, and forensic concerns overlap.