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Dr. Canon is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She is also a clinical supervisor, trainer, applied researcher and consultant. Dr. Canon received her BA in Clinical Psychology in Bogotá, Colombia, at Konrad Lorenz University, her MA in Behavior Analysis at the University of Nevada, Reno, and her PsyD in Applied Clinical Psychology at The Chicago School, Los Angeles.
Dr. Canon has over two decades of clinical, consulting and training experience in diverse populations and settings. Dr. Canon works with families of children and youth with diagnoses of anxiety, ADHD, autism spectrum and other behavioral challenges from a traditional ABA and ACT perspective. She co-founded and is the Director of Research and Development at the Institute for Effective Behavioral Interventions (IEBI), an organization that provides cutting-edge behavioral interventions for individuals presenting with behavioral, emotional and developmental challenges. She recently founded and directs services at ACT to Thrive, a center dedicated to providing treatment, counseling and training focused on acceptance and engagement.
In the last decade, Dr. Canon has held numerous leadership positions in the Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences (ACBS) and she regularly presents at professional conferences around the globe, while conducting workshops in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Clinical Behavior Analysis for traditional behavior analysts. and other professionals. Dr. Canon is currently an editorial board member for the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Sciences (JCBS) and guest editor for the Behavior Analysis in Practice (BAP) series on Compassion and Latin American Women in Behavior Analysis.
Research interests
- Training early and mid-career behavior analysts in relationship building and compassionate care skills
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Coaching
- Parent Training (ACT with Parents)
- Staff training (ACT with staff)
- Behavior governed by rules
- Behavioral flexibility
- Clinical Behavior Analysis
- Interbehaviorism
Courses learned
- Graduate Research Mentor at University of Nevada Reno Spring 2021 to Winter 2021. Off-Campus Satellite Master’s Program, Saudi Arabia, UEA
- Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2019. Guest lecturer, Relational Framework Theory (RFT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for behavior analysts working with individuals with developmental disabilities and families Theirs.
- Institute for Effective Behavioral Interventions (IEBI), Encino, CA Spring 2017. Workshop instructor, Learning to Implement AIM: Accept, Identify & Move: A Behavior Analytic Curriculum for Social-Emotional Development in Children developed by Mark Dixon and Dana Paliliunas.
- The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2018. Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
- Institute for Effective Behavioral Interventions (IEBI), Encino, CA Spring 2017. Workshop Instructor, Learn to Implement PEAK: A Relational Training System.
- Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, California Fall 2012. AB510 Psychopathology Adjunct Faculty; Adjunct Faculty for PA688 Special Topics in Behavior Analysis: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
- Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, California Summer and Fall 2012. Adjunct faculty for AB533 Advanced Behavioral Interventions: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
- Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, California Fall 2008.
Adjunct Faculty for Professional Affairs and Ethics ABA 547. - National University, Sherman Oaks, CA Fall 2008. Adjunct Faculty for ABA 601 Basic Principles of Behavior Analysis-I Evaluation and Research Design.
