Evaluative Services:
Child Custody Evaluations
A comprehensive assessment of family dynamics and factors impacting the child's overall well-being and development. This evaluation determines the best interests of the children as the family progresses through divorce proceedings or is in the midst of conflict after separation or divorce.
Psychological Evaluations
A psychological evaluation of a person's current mental state, diagnoses, and treatment needs. This evaluation seeks to confirm or rule out mental illness and determine the treatment needs of the examinee while also exploring how their symptoms and needs may or may not impact their parenting capacities.
Guilty Except Insane
An assessment of mental status at the time of an offense.
Mitigation
An assessment of mitigating factors that occurs prior to entering a plea or prior to sentencing. This evaluation focuses on the client's history and psychological factors that impact their behaviors and functioning.
Psychosexual Evaluations
An assessment of sexual deviancy as well as an offenders risk potential for committing another sexual offense.
Competency to Stand Trial
An assessment of one's mental status, capacity to consult with counsel, and their factual and rational knowledge of courtroom proceedings.
Risk Assessment
A violence risk assessment is an evaluation providing information about the possibility of a person's future violent behaviors. These are conducted in a variety of legal and clinical settings with the use of empirically based psychological tests.
Bonding and Best Interests
Bonding and best interests assessments study how a child has bonded to foster parents or their birth parents. These assessments focus on addressing how the child may be affected if they were removed from their current placement.
Abuse and Neglect Assessment
Evaluations completed when child abuse and neglect are suspected can address a variety of questions such as but not limited to parent's mental health, risk to the child(ren), parental fitness, special needs of the child(ren), and services needed to create a safe environment for the child(ren).
Therapeutic Services:
Individual Therapy
Psychotherapy is offered to adolescent and adult individuals with variety a general mental health concerns. Mood instability, life transitions, relationship difficulties, and behavioral concerns are some of the areas of focus that can be addressed. Clients can improve their overall wellness and life satisfaction.
Therapeutic Intervention
An intervention typically court-ordered to assist in stabilizing family dysfunction. The focus of this intervention can address a variety of issues including, parent-child reunification.
Co-parenting Therapy
When children are involved after separation, co-parenting can be stressful and filled with conflict. Therapeutic services for parents can address improved communication and boundaries within this new relationship dynamic.
Group Therapy
Group therapy is offered to address co-parenting issues among high conflict parents. Parents can attend the group separate from their respective partners and learn how to set healthy boundaries, learn assertive communication skills, and learn how to make productive changes in their own behaviors in order to improve their co-parenting relationship.