Kira Burgess-Elmer is a Counselor based in the USA. My areas of speciality include ADD and ADHD, Addiction, Antisocial Personality, Anxiety, Borderline Personality, Dual Diagnosis, Emotional Disturbance, Narcissistic Personality, Self Esteem, and Stress. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
As an evaluator, I have heard many stories of evaluations gone wrong either due to an evaluator’s lack of experience in a certain specialty area, or an evaluator producing a poor work product. Becoming a child custody evaluator is no easy task. There is no “formal” training and you must rely on other professionals in the field who have walked the path before you. Even then, not everything a case presents with can be taught. Therefore, an evaluator must rely on their previous work experience, training and education, along with well founded research to maintain the integrity of the process, and the quality of the report. It’s not always the amount of evaluations a Parenting Time Evaluator has conducted or even the amount of letters they have after their name. What it comes down to is knowing where their experience lies. Before agreeing to appoint, make sure the evaluator’s education and work experience aligns with the special issues of your case. I am currently accepting new cases as a P