Joint Commission (Jcaco) Expert Witnesses

Santa Clara, California

Mental Health, Social Work - Social Work, Triage, Lanterman Petris Short LPS, Involuntary Commitment, Suicide, Crisis Intervention, Risk Assessment, Behavioral Health, Patient Rights, Standard of Care, Severe Mental Illness (SMI), Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Anosognosia, Emergency Care, Joint Commission (JCACO), HEDIS, CMS, EMTALA

I am a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW #76279) with over a decade of mental health experience across outpatient psychotherapy, acute inpatient psychiatric care, psychiatric emergency settings, and the public/community mental health system. I provide case consultation, medical-record review, and expert testimony on the mental health standard of care for both plaintiff and defense counsel. I own and operate a private psychotherapy practice, providing evidence-based individual therapy, including onsite psychotherapy on corporate campuses. I treat the full range of common mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, trauma, and stress- and adjustment-related disorders. Drawing on this practice, I evaluate whether clinicians met the outpatient standard of care in clinical social work (LCSW and LMSW/MSW) — including clinical assessment and diagnosis, treatment planning and appropriate level of care, the therapeutic relationship, professional boundaries and in...