Dr. Edwards is academically and clinically trained in court-ordered involved or ordered evaluations and interventions, which serve the best interests of the child. As a forensic clinician, it is imperative to remain neutral and unbiased while serving in our professional roles. Dr. Edwards utilizes the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Guidelines for Child Custody Evaluations in Family Law Proceedings in each of her child custody evaluations. She also consults and integrates the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts (AFCC) guidelines when appropriate. She focuses on the importance and intricacies of family dynamics while keeping the best interest of the child the top priority. Dr. Edwards was trained, and engages in, the comprehensive model of child custody evaluations and, as such, will treat each case individually and thoroughly according to ethical and legal standards.

At times, triers of fact will be tasked with balancing the significance of the aggravating and mitigating factors of a criminal case, as well as applying such factors when convicting, acquitting, or in sentencing of defendants. Dr. Edwards’ academic and applied training in psycho-legal issues allows her to competently integrate clinical principles, ethical standards, and forensic assessment tools to provide these specialized evaluations to the court. Dr. Edwards has completed these evaluations routinely, due to her experiences within jails, prisons, and other correctional facilities, as well as within her private practice.

Parents involved with high conflict divorce, parents currently navigating the separation process, or even parents who simply need assistance with breakdowns in communication from time to time can all benefit from therapy. Dr. Edwards specializes in coparenting therapy, which aims to separate couples’ former relational hostilities from their ongoing parental responsibilities. This particular therapy also focuses on achieving an amicable coparenting arrangements, determined and outlined by the coparents, in order to decrease the stress on the children involved, as well as the family dynamic as a whole.

Collaborative practice is a customized, client-centered process through which families resolve divorce, child custody and other legal issues respectfully and efficiently, avoiding litigation and focusing on solutions to meet each family’s unique needs. All participants work together in a transparent, structured and supportive environment. Dr. Edwards is trained as a Coach in the Collaborative process. As a coach, Dr. Edwards may meet with you outside of the collaborative meetings, as well as participate during meetings to help you and your coparent decide on parenting plans, activities, or help develop methods for resolving potential conflicts.

Similar to the collaborative process, mediation can be used for multiple purposes and across different divisions of our judicial system. Perhaps you’re having a dispute regarding a real estate transaction and you’d like to avoid an arbitration panel or litigation. Maybe you’d like to attempt and resolve a contentious Will & Estate matter outside of court. Or, you would simply like assistance from a third party in negotiating the terms of a contract. All of these, and more, are reasons to request additional information on mediation.

Does your lifestyle or employment not allow you to seek out traditional psychological, or psycho-legal services in a therapy office? Are you employed in the type of position that necessitates discretion when it comes to seeking mental health treatment? Is your family or someone in your family facing difficult life transitions, which may necessitate after-hours psycho-legal services? Then concierge services are for you. Dr. Edwards is now providing concierge services to individuals with unique needs or situations, particularly those who may benefit from after-hours services.

Concierge treatment at its best, clients can opt for on-call, virtual in-home, or mobile services allowing you to remain in the comfort of your own home or office while becoming the best you that you can be.

Services are available on-call in a variety of settings. While all services performed by Edwards & Assoc. are rooted in evidence-based practices, no two clients are the same. Welcome to a new way of genuinely personalizing psycho-legal services.