Forensic Psychological Services

Dr. Martha Mahaffey specializes in forensic psychology in criminal, civil, immigration, and family court cases. As a bilingual Spanish-Speaking psychologist, Dr. Mahaffey has performed over 2000 forensic evaluations of English and Spanish-Speaking individuals, consulted to Courts, prosecutors, defense attorneys, plaintiffs’ attorneys, and various community organizations, and testified in Nevada District Courts, California Superior Courts, U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Immigration Court.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Pretrial Forensic Psychological Evaluations

• Competency to Stand Trial and Other Criminal Competencies
• Competency to Waive Miranda Rights
• False Confession
• Mental State at Time of Offense (insanity/intent)

Presentence Mitigation Psychological Evaluations

• Mitigation Psychological Evaluations (biopsychosocial traumas, neurodevelopmental, neurocognitive, and mental health disabilities, treatment needs)

Risk Assessment

• Psychosexual Risk 
• Violence Risk 
• Child Abuse/Neglect/Endangerment Risk 
• Domestic Violence/Stalking Risk 
• Animal Cruelty Risk 

Death Penalty and Capital Litigation

• Intellectual Disability
• Future Dangerousness 
• Mitigation 

Juvenile Forensic Psychological Evaluations

• Competency to Stand Trial 
• Competency to Waive Miranda Rights
• False Confession
• Mental State at Time of Offense
• Certification as an Adult
• Juvenile Psychosexual Risk Assessment
• Juvenile Violence Risk Assessment
• Juvenile Homicide and Developmental Immaturity
• Mitigation 

Civil Forensic Psychological Evaluations

• Personal Injury Examinations in Torts for Emotional Distress including PTSD

Fitness for Duty Evaluations

• Psychological Evaluations of Impaired Providers (medical provider, psychologist, social worker, nurse, teacher, other)
• Workplace Violence Risk Assessment

Immigration Forensic Psychological Evaluations

• Extreme Hardship Evaluations
• Asylum Evaluations
• Medical Exceptions for Disability Evaluations

Family Court Evaluations

• Parental Capacity Evaluations (excluding child custody evaluations)