Green Mountain Forensics is a psychological assessment service based in Southern, Vermont and now serving all of Vermont and New Hampshire.
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I have over forty years of experience working with adolescent and adult males who have demonstrated contact or non-contact sexual behavior problems. Such behaviors may or may not have resulted in juvenile or adult criminal charges or convictions, or protective services substantiations. Some of these individuals were identified with having intellectual disability.
Prior to becoming a licensed clinical psychologist, I had a varied work history. Early in my professional career, I worked as a substance abuse counselor (northern New York), a protective services social worker (southern Vermont), and a medical hospital social worker (southern Vermont). For five years, I was a Designated Mental Health Professional while working on a psychiatric emergency mental health team (southeastern Vermont).
I first began working with adult male sex offenders in 1982, when I facilitated an outpatient sex offender treatment group in Brattleboro, Vermont.
In 1987, I became the program evaluator for the Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Abusers (VTPSA), an incarcerative sex offender treatment program that became a model for prison sex offender treatment programs around the world. I was the VTPSA program evaluator for twenty-eight years until May 2015.
I have primarily worked as an evaluator of adult and adolescent male sexual offenders since 1990. In addition to my VTPSA work, between December 1995 and August 2016, I also provided sex offender evaluation services to Resolutions Programs in Montpelier, Vermont. Over the years, I have conducted well over a thousand Psychosexual Evaluations and over 800 penile plethysmograph assessments to determine whether the individual had a disordered arousal profile. I no longer do plethysmograph assessments.
After being introduced to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) in 1995, I also began evaluating sexual and non-sexual violent offenders concerning psychopathy. In 1997, I became one of the first in the nation to be certified in the use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). This is considered the “gold standard” for the assessment of psychopathy. Between 1997 and 2004, I contracted with the Vermont Department of Corrections to provide nonsexual violent offender risk assessments using the PCL-R, the Violence Risk Assessment Guide (VRAG), and the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R). To date, I have completed over 350 psychopathy assessments.
I completed my Doctor of Psychology degree (Psy.D.) from Union Institute & University in August 2013; my dissertation involved case studies of several offenders deemed to exhibit an extreme level of Psychopathy.
I became a Vermont Licensed Psychologist-Doctorate in November 2015. and soon thereafter started my own assessment practice. In October of 2016, the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) recognized me as a National Register Behavioral Health Psychologist. Most recently, in February 2020, I became licensed as a clinical psychologist in New Hampshire.