Expert-Witness-Psychologist.com

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Welcome to Expert-Witness-Psychologist.com.

This web site is a personal response to serendipity: In December of 2001 I received a call from a law firm with offices throughout the state looking for an expert to assist in the evaluation of claimants alleging emotional damages in a racial discrimination law suit.

Within a week I received a call, this time from an office elsewhere in the state, also asking for my availability to serve as an expert. Flattered, because I believed the second referral had arisen from the first, I benignly inquired if Attorney A from Office A had given my name to the second office.

"No", said the paralegal conducting the search. "We found your name on the internet".

Some what bewildered I told the second office that I didn't have a web site and wondered how they might have found me. A quick search in the paralegal's file showed that the key words entered into the search string matched a string of words in my c.v.

My c.v. was hosted along with an article appearing on the web site www.thelizlibrary.org of a family lawyer who had asked to host the article and offered to add my c.v. as a courtesy.

I called the first office, still thinking that the attorney who called had remembered me from teaching on a panel together. Alas, not so. His paralegal had, independent of the second, conducted a search in a similar fashion.

Not wanting to squander the opportunity to capitalize on chance I created this site with the goal of making it easier to be found and to offer an illustration of my work.

I believe that I have developed a specialized expertise and knowledge of psychology as it relates to a broad range of legal issues in which either an emotional injury has been claimed, or, in which the psychological or emotional status of an individual is at issue before the law. My specific expertise pertains to civil matters [not criminal] including:

• psychological and emotional injuries in employment, harassment, and tort cases, and,
• parenting capacity in child custody cases and child visitation cases.

As a forensic psychologist I have appeared as an expert witness in both state and Federal courts about a wide variety of psychological issues - in civil cases in which there have been claims of emotional damages (such as post traumatic stress disorder) arising out of alleged employment discrimination, sexual harassment, or physical injury; and, in family cases to assist the Court in making recommendations concerning visitation and custody, the presence of parental alienation, and, about allegations of child abuse or neglect.

Trained first as a counseling psychologist, providing child therapy, family therapy, and adult psychotherapy services I have held teaching appointments at both university and community mental health center settings, teaching others skills in forensic psychology and in psychological assessment.

Out of this training and teaching I have developed a curriculum for teaching lawyers about understanding, and challenging, psychological and psychiatric testimony in the courtroom.

The contents of this site are geared towards providing information and access to that information. I invite your inquiries, comments or suggestions.

Our professional network, and this site, is geared towards providing information and access to us and to our services. We invite any inquiries, comments or suggestions.