Mikaela Vidmar has been a registered clinical and forensic psychologist in Canada for the past twenty years where she has specialized in comprehensive psychological risk assessment and treatment of sexual and violent offenders. She has worked with multiple populations including inpatient, outpatient, and incarcerated. Her areas of expertise and interest include psychopathy, pedophilic arousal disorders, personality disorders, internet-facilitated offending, the impact of sexual abuse on victims, and rare paraphilic disorders. She contributed to the development of a treatment program and manual for people who have engaged in illegal sexual behaviors which won multiple honors including the National Award of Excellence in Mental Health. Ms. Vidmar has been recognized as an expert witness in Provincial and Supreme courts (of Canada) in addition to Family and Juvenile courts. She has additionally provided consultation to lawyers, judges, Family and Children Services Aid, the RCMP and provincial police, foster parents, probation and parole officers, staff at women’s shelters and rehabilitative programs, and numerous other professionals and stakeholders. She has been an instructor at Mount Saint Mary’s University since 2017, and with The Chicago School of Professional Psychology since 2021, in addition to maintaining clinical practice in the Southern California area.