This Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist serves as a dependency social work expert with more than 20 years of experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams within public child protection systems. He provides consultation, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony in matters involving child safety determinations, emergency response investigations, foster care placements, adoption proceedings, youth welfare services, and allegations of abuse or neglect. His professional background includes progressive roles within a public child services agency, including responsibilities in emergency response, family maintenance and reunification services, dependency investigations, and clinical evaluation functions.

In these capacities, he conducted intake and diagnostic assessments for child welfare and safety purposes, participated in multidisciplinary assessment teams, coordinated treatment and service planning, evaluated out-of-home placements involving Axis I mental health diagnoses, and developed reunification and alternative permanency plans for children and families. He facilitated more than 1,200 family and emancipation conferences and worked closely with mental health providers and community stakeholders to address the needs of children and adolescents. He holds a Master of Arts in Psychology with specialization in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, and maintains licensure as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

Additional experience includes psychotherapy and child welfare consulting through private practice and development of training curricula on topics such as vicarious traumatization, troubled adolescents, sexual assault, emancipation conferencing, and the Indian Child Welfare Act. Through documented testimony experience and long-standing involvement in dependency systems, he provides analysis regarding child protection investigations, foster care and adoption procedures, permanency planning, and dependency court practices.