Johnathan BownJohnathan Bown received his M. Ed. in 2015 in Counselling Psychology from The University of Lethbridge. He is currently a practicing psychologist in the Edmonton, Alberta community. He has maintained research-oriented endeavors in the realms of psychlogy, dreams, and gaming since the beginning of his post-secondary education.

Mr. Bown is registered with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association as well as the College of Alberta Psychologists. He practices from the Humanistic approach of psychotherapy and promotes a holistic approach to wellbeing. He has published on mindfulness practices in gaming, presence in video gaming, and the incorporation of game content into dreams. In 2015, he published “Video games, nightmares, and emotional processing” in the edited book, Emotions and Technology through Elsevier. Mr. Bown has also presented posters at The Banff Annual Seminal in Cognitive Science (2009) and at Towards a Science of Consciousness (2010). Recently, he has created and facilitated an online workshop for nurses on the topic of sexual addition (2016) through Alberta Society for the Promotion of Sexual Health, as well as presented on similar topics at the Biennial Western Canadian Conference of Sexual Health (2016). Read More Read Less