Understanding Your Specific Situation

Dr. Marcus R. Patterson, PsyD, CCHP-MH, brings more than a decade of forensic and correctional experience — including service as a mental health expert to the federal Special Master in Coleman v. Newsom, leadership of behavioral health operations at the District of Columbia Department of Corrections, and post-doctoral training at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia — to a focused forensic practice serving legal teams, courts, correctional systems, and oversight bodies across the country.

Compassionate & Professional

You can trust that I will treat you and your clients with respect, dignity and compassion in every interaction, while maintaining the highest standards for integrity and ethics.

Forensic Evaluations

Independent, court-ready evaluations grounded in current forensic standards.

Correctional Mental Health Consulting

Helping jails, prisons, and the agencies that run them deliver constitutionally adequate mental health care.

Monitoring

Independent monitoring of mental health care in jails, prisons, and juvenile facilities.

Case Review: Standards of Care & Deaths in Custody

Expert review of correctional medical and mental health care, including suicides and other in-custody deaths.

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