Over the past 20 years, I have developed the foremost forensic psychology practice in Ireland. In the conduct of forensic assessments, I provide consultation in cases involving criminal matters, personal injury cases, and family law issues. I have Security Clearance for all the main prisons including Portlaoise Prison.
Forensic Evaluations – Criminal Matters
I manages a focused Forensic Practice and I provides testing and data interpretation that addresses the cognitive and emotional issues that emerge in presentencing, competency, criminal responsibility, risk assessment, disability, testamentary capacity cases and a range of other psycholegal issues. Peer reviewed, objectivity, evidence based, and adhering to scientific standards – are the core principles in this work.
I provide forensic evaluations for the Legal Profession, the Courts, the HSE, Employers and Other Professionals. Extensively trained and with many years experience, I am available in the Dublin area and nationally for clients who require an expert in psychological science.
Typical referrals include:
- Competency
- Criminal Responsibility
- Mitigation Claims and Sentencing
- Diminished Capacity and Extreme Emotional Disturbance
- Forced or False Confessions and Suggestibility (I was trained by Professor Gudjonsson)
- Capacity to Form Intent
- Risk Assessment / Future Dangerousness
- Classification and Recidivism Potential
- Alternatives to Incarceration
- Personality Screening and Comprehensive Personality Evaluation
- Paedophilia, Sex Offenses, & Sexual Harassment
- Malingering
- Amnesia for the Offense
- Underlying Personality for Abuse
- Review of Forensic Evaluations
- Intellectual Disability
Other Typical Referrals in Adult Forensic Cases include:
- Assessment of Parenting Capacity
- Evaluation of Parental Relationship
- Custody Recommendations
- Questions of Abuse and Neglect in Family Law
- Psychological Effects of Personal Injury
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Adolescent / Juvenile Forensic Cases (examples of recent work)
- Exploration of Alternatives to Custody while awaiting Trial in a case of Homicide (Co. Dublin)
- Full Clinical, Forensic, Neuropsychological Evaluations of Teens accused of Arson, Murder, or Sexual Violence (for example multiple cases across several counties including Cavan, Cork, several in Dublin, Laois, Louth, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford)
