Counselor Expert Witnesses in Connecticut

This expert earned her BS in Nursing from Curry College in Milton, MA. She holds an NCC certification as an inpatient obstetric nurse (RNC-OB) and a Healthy Children's Project certification as a lactation counselor (CLC). He formerly served as a labor and delivery nurse at St. Francis Hospital, The Hospital of St. Raphael, San Antonio Community Hospital, and Midstate Medical Center. She currently serves as a labor and delivery nurse a major medical center in Boston, Massachusetts. At this medical center, she also serves as a labor and delivery quality improvement task force member.

This expert has been involved in executive, management, policy-making, and consulting in the field of social welfare since 1980. He earned his master's in Social Work from Case Western Reserve University and also has a J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. The expert is an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and an Editorial Board member on several social work journals. He is currently a social work professor in New York City and an active litigation consultant.

This highly qualified expert received her BA in Psychology from Loyola Marymount University and went on to receive her MS and PhD in Clinical Psychology from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. She is a member of several distinguished neuropsychology associations including the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, the International Neuropsychological Society, and the New York State Association of Neuropsychology. She previously worked as a Psychology Technician at the Pratt Center and as the Associate Director of Clinical Neuropsychology at Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group. Currently, she works as a Clinical Neuropsychologist at a regional health care system and at a private practice. Her expertise includes neuropsychological evaluations for pediatric and adult populations with known or suspected neurological illness, specifically learning disabilities, ADHD, emotional/behavioral problems, memory disorders/dementia, epilepsy, brain tumors, brain injuries, and strokes.

This well-credentialed, experienced expert earned her B.A. from Ohio University, her Master of Social Work from Clark Atlanta University, and her Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Hunter College School of Social Work of the City University of New York. The expert has worked extensively in the public sector, with government roles including the Director of the Office of Adolescent Services for the New York City Human Resources Administration, the Interim Commissioner of the Child Welfare Administration, and an appointed Member of the Mayor's Commission on the Foster Care of Children. At NYU, she was previously the Chair of the Social Welfare Programs and Policies area. She is also a consultant reviewer for the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families and previously held many faculty appointments, including as Director and Chair of the Westchester Social Work Education Consortium.

This highly qualified expert earned her BA in Forensic Psychology and her MA in Criminal Justice from John Jay College. She went on to receive her MSW from Hunter College and her MPhil and PhD in Social Welfare from the City University of New York. She is a certified field instructor and rape crisis counselor and a licensed clinical social worker. She has over 15 years of clinical and research experience in social work and has published over 12 journal articles and reports on various topics in social work, including youth criminal offenders. She formerly served as a forensic examiner for the Pasadena Juvenile Court and as an assistant professor and interim director of field education at California State University, Los Angeles. She currently serves as the director of field education for a social work school in NY.

This well-credentialed expert is a licensed psychologist in New York and New Jersey, as well as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in New York. He earned his B.A. in Psychology from Adelphi University, his M.A. in Clinical Psychology, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his Ph.D., the expert began his career working at the Catholic Charities foster care and group home agency in Brooklyn. He later directed a large mental health system in Oklahoma and then served as the Clinical Director of a large county mental health clinic upon returning to New York. The expert is active in New York and New Jersey as a forensic psychologist, providing testing and assessment of patients including psychological diagnosis, child abuse/neglect assessments, and alcohol/substance abuse assessments.

This highly qualified expert earned her BA from Johns Hopkins University and her MD from New York University School of Medicine where she also completed her residency in adult psychiatry. She then went on to Columbia for a public psychiatry fellowship. She is board certified in psychiatry and neurology as well as public and community psychiatry. This expert has been published in Psychiatric Quarterly and has presented at an APA annual meeting. Formerly, she was the chief of psychiatry at Rockland Psychiatric Center and is currently a psychiatrist and assistant medical director of mental health at a leading telepsychiatry service provider.

This expert has over 35 years of experience in the field of psychopharmacology. He earned his BS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MD from Emory University School of Medicine. He completed an internship in general surgery at Boston University Affiliated Hospitals and a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law. He previously served as a staff psychiatrist for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, as a clinical supervisor for Lane Health Center at Northeastern University and as a psychopharmacology consultant for the University of Massachusetts. This expert is currently a psychiatrist at a private practice, a staff psychiatrist at a hospital in Massachusetts and a clinical instructor of psychiatry at an Ivy League university.

This qualified expert is a licensed marriage and family therapist with years of experience specializing in early childhood mental health. She received her BA in psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her MA in counseling psychology from Alliant International University. She completed an internship in child and family therapy at the Salvation Army Clinic in Mexico City. She is active in her field as a member of the New York State Association for Infant Mental Health. Her former positions include case manager for SKIP of New York, a child abuse prevention program specialist for the New York Foundling, and a preventive social worker for Association to Benefit Children. Currently, this expert serves as a therapist and early childhood mental health consultant and the clinical supervisor the early childhood mental health therapeutic center for a mental healthcare association in New York. Additionally, she is an independent consultant and therapist for a private practice in New York.

This expert has over 20 years of experience in social work. He earned his BA in economics from Hamilton College and his MSW from Columbia University. He also completed several certificate programs, including a graduate certificate in social work administration and an executive certificate through the Institute of Not-For-Profit Management at Columbia University. This expert has completed numerous professional development courses as well, including trauma systems therapy and therapeutic crisis intervention. He serves as a child/volunteer protection advocate board member for the Briarcliff Youth Soccer Club and volunteered with the Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies as the foster boarding home committee co-chair and as part of the Medicaid managed workgroup. Much of his career was spent working for the Jewish Child Care Association, where he served as a social worker, unit director of the Edenwald Residential Treatment Center, and foster home services director and senior vice president. Currently, this expert serves as the executive vice president and chief operations officer for a nonprofit in New York that provides housing for veterans.

This expert has over 25 years of experience as a grief counselor, specializing in parental grief, child and adolescent grief, suicide bereavement and other complicated grief issues. He is author of a book covering grief and loss and numerous professional and popular publications. He is currently an international keynote speaker, consults to law firms, human service professionals, schools, businesses, hospitals and hospices, and maintains a private grief counseling practice.

This expert has been practicing for over 40 years and has experience in both hospital and ambulatory care settings. A Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Specialist, she has been honored as a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. A Former President of the Greater New York Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, she is a reviewer for the Journal of Pediatric Nursing, the Journal of Pediatric Health Care, as well as The American Journal for Nurse Practitioners. The recipient of awards such as Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the Nurse Practitioner Association of Long Island and the Nelms-Miller Editorial Award by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, she is involved in research to improve the health care outcomes for children and has been awarded thousands of dollars in grants. Currently, this expert is a Clinical Professor at a major college of nursing, where she is also the Coordinator of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program and she practices as a pediatric nurse practitioner in a pediatric ambulatory care setting for at-risk infants, children, adolescents, and young adults as part of her faculty practice.

This expert has over 15 years of experience in the field of psychology, specifically trauma and post traumatic stress disorder. He earned his BA from the American University and his MS and PhD in clinical psychology from Florida State University. He completed a fellowship in psychiatry at Boston University and is a member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Society of Biological Psychiatry. He previously served as an associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University. He is currently a professor of psychiatry at a prominent university, a clinical psychologist at a PTSD center in a VA healthcare system, and a psychologist at a private forensic practice in Massachusetts focused on PTSD-related matters.

This qualified expert obtained his BA in Professional Studies from SUNY Empire and his BS in Biology and Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine from Logan College of Chiropractic. He has training in Sports Medicine and Body Psychotherapy. He is Board Certified as a Chiropractic Examiner and a Chiropractor and has certifications in Vodder Manual Lymph Therapy, ConnecTX Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation and Impairment Ratings for Physical Disabilities. He is a member of multiple Chiropractic Medical Associations and has 3 Publications related to Chiropractic Medicine. He currently serves as a Chiropractor for a Private Sports and Wellness Clinic. He has been a chiropractor and consultant for over 25 years, and testified many times in multiple court settings.

This expert is the founder and clinical director of a psychology firm with offices in Queens and Manhattan. She received her doctorate from Hofstra University and completed her post-doctoral work in neuro-developmental psychology at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn. She is a New York State licensed psychologist and a New York State certified school psychologist. She maintains a faculty appointment at a major university's PhD program in Clinical Psychology, and has previously lectured in psychology departments at many colleges and universities in the NY area.

This experienced social worker and city employee held Director roles in the City of New York Administration for Children's Services for over 14 years. She was the Director of Supervision and Case Practice Improvement and then the Director of the Office of Preventive Family Team Conferencing before leaving government leadership in 2013. The expert has a master's in Social Work from NYU and previously worked as a legal aid social worker.

This highly qualified expert earned her BSN and MSN from Syracuse University and a PhD from the University of Rochester. She is a member of several medical committees and prestigious nursing societies dedicated to the improvement of health care delivery and nursing education. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing at a major university affiliated medical center/ nursing program, a maintains a Private Practice as a psychiatric Nurse Practitioner at an independent office. Additionally, she has presented at local, state, and national venues on a variety of educational and psychiatric topics.

This child welfare industry executive has over 25 years of social services experience, including 15 years in leadership roles at foster care agencies. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from Western Connecticut State University and her M.S.W from Smith School for Social Work; she is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She began her career as a Social Worker and Supervisor and then joined Green Chimneys Children's Services as the Director of Social Services. From 1999 until 2004, the expert was the Director of Foster Home Services & Adoption and a Vice President at Jewish Child Care Association, in charge of the foster care division. The expert later served as JCCA's Senior Vice President of Foster Home & Residential Services and completed her career as the Assistant Executive Director at Good Shepherd Services, where she rolled out a new foster care program and oversaw a $12 million budget from 2011 until retiring in 2014.

This highly qualified and board certified psychiatrist has been practice for 33+ years. He earned his BS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MD at Emory University. He completed residency training in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. This expert is a member of several professional organizations including the American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Currently, he is a clinical instructor at a university affiliated hospital. His clinical and forensic expertise includes assessment of complex diagnoses, treatment of depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and anxiety disorders. His expertise also includes dosing, side effects, drug interactions, and toxicity of psychotropic agents.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in the field of Neuropsychology, being board certified in clinical neuropsychology and professional psychology. He is also certified in advanced rehabilitation research and clinical neuropsychology. Receiving his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Florida, he continued on there to to earn his master's in rehabilitation counseling & mental health counseling. His doctorate degree in counseling psychology was granted from the University of Kentucky with specialties in developmental trauma and neuropsychological testing and treatment. Having served as president for the New York Association of Neuropsychology, he maintains active member status at the New York State Psychological Association, the New York Neuropsychology Group, the American Psychological Association and the International Neuropsychology Society. He formerly served as the senior psychologist of clinical neuropsychology and rehabilitation at the The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Currently, he serves as a adjunct professor of neuropsychology at a NY medical school and a clinical neuropsychology consultant and psychotherapist at a private neuropsychology services firm.