Court-Adjacent Psychological Services

I am a New Jersey licensed psychologist and licensed clinical social worker providing court-adjacent psychological services in high-conflict family matters. My work is structured, role-defined, and guided by clear scope and boundaries in legally sensitive contexts. Depending on the matter, services may be provided by court appointment, joint retention, or party retention, with the role and any reporting parameters defined in the governing Order or written agreement.

I earned my Doctorate in Psychology (PsyD) with distinction from Capella University, my Master’s degree in Social Work from Fordham University, and my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Franklin Pierce University, where I graduated magna cum laude with honors in psychology. My professional work spans more than two decades across clinical, forensic, and high-acuity systems, with a longstanding concentration in family-law-adjacent matters.

My professional preparation is deliberately aligned with the realities of court-adjacent family work. This includes advanced education through the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, formal preparation in parenting coordination and child custody evaluation fundamentals, and extended training through William James College in collaboration with the Overcoming Barriers program focused on complex parent-child contact problems, including resist-refuse dynamics and structured intervention planning.

I am a trained provider in New Ways for Families, an evidence-informed, skills-based approach for high-conflict parenting dynamics, and I have advanced training through the Albert Ellis Institute supporting structured work with emotion regulation, cognitive rigidity, and high reactivity.

I hold approved Parenting Coordinator status with a domestic violence designation on the New Jersey Judiciary roster and have completed formal divorce mediation training and interdisciplinary collaborative family law training, supporting careful role definition and objective clinical reasoning in complex matters.

For detailed information about Dr. Forshee’s experience and training, view her curriculum vitae, last updated March 4, 2026.

View Dr. Forshee’s Trainings/Speaking Engagements, last updated March 4, 2026

Areas of Expertise

Psychological Risk Assessments
Best Interests Evaluations
Parenting Capacity Evaluations
Court-Involved Psychological Assessments
Parenting Coordination
Refuse-Resist Evaluations
High-Conflict Co-Parenting
Custody and Parenting Time Mediation

Professional Education, Training and Consultation

Throughout my career, I have delivered more than 55 professional trainings and invited lectures across clinical, legal, and multidisciplinary settings, as reflected in the speaking engagements listed in my curriculum vitae.

A significant portion of my recent speaking has been directed to attorneys and other legal professionals, including continuing education programming through the New Jersey State Bar Association and New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education on topics that intersect directly with family law practice, high conflict dynamics, and domestic violence and coercive control. I have also presented to bar and court adjacent audiences in New Jersey, including programming connected with the Monmouth County Bar Association

Earlier in my career, my training work focused heavily on psychiatric crisis intervention, suicide and risk assessment, and deescalation in high acuity environments, including hospital wide education and emergency setting consultation. I have provided training within major health system settings and community based professional forums, as well as to law enforcement audiences including the Ocean County Police Academy. Consistent with that clinical foundation, I have also delivered continuing education through Rutgers University programs focused on suicide and risk assessment.

In addition to education and training, I have been invited to contribute clinical perspective to policy discussions affecting court connected families, including meetings with interdisciplinary stakeholders and counsel to the Governor’s Office regarding proposed legislative issues. I was also invited to appear before the State Senate in connection with proposed bills, where stakeholder collaboration resulted in agreed upon language modifications and formal testimony was ultimately not required.