Authorities are asking for the public’s help tracking down a B.C. man accused of providing “specific medical assessments” to people, despite lacking the credentials to do so.
Xander Phoenix is charged with one count of forgery and one count of causing someone to use a forged document, both Criminal Code offences, the Kelowna RCMP said Thursday.
“These charges, in short, stem from a fraud investigation into Phoenix providing specific medical assessments to clients in Kelowna, allegedly without the appropriate credentials as a psychologist,” the detachment wrote in a news release.
The RCMP noted that the suspect previously lived in the Lower Mainland, specifically in New Westminster.
Back in 2021, B.C.’s College of Psychologists issued a public alert about a Xander Patrice Phoenix, who also went by “Dr. Pat,” who had been practising at the Omega Health Clinic in Burnaby.
The college noted at the time that Phoenix had “never been registered to practise as a psychologist” in the province.
Kelowna RCMP asked Phoenix to come forward to “rectify” the warrants against him, and urged anyone else with information on his whereabouts to contact the detachment.
