Dr.  Kohutis conducts evaluations for parenting time/best interest, and relocation matters, and guardianship cases.  She also performs psychological evaluations in personal injury matters.

Dr. Kohutis acquired her clinical skills in long-term and acute-care psychiatric settings and honed them over a long career in private psychotherapeutic practice. During this time, she worked with children, adolescents, and adults suffering from a wide range of disorders from anxiety and depression, abuses from childhood, loss and mourning, post traumatic stress disorder, and women’s issues. Her specialization is in psychosomatic disorders. Her psychotherapy treatment approach is psychodynamic with the focus on helping people reach their goals and needs.

As writer and speaker, Dr. Kohutis has made presentations to various legal organizations and groups and published on malingering, psychosomatic disorders, and psychological testing.

Dr. Kohutis offers psychological expertise and expert testimony in following matters:

Family Law:

• Parenting Time/Best Interest Evaluations/Child Custody Evaluations
• Relocation/Removal Evaluations
• Risk Assessments
• Settlement Based Evaluations
• Parental Fitness
• Bonding Evaluations
• Child Abuse Evaluations
• Adoption Readiness Evaluations
• Termination of Parental Rights
• Reunification Therapy
• Parent Coordination
• Guardianship
• Tevis Evaluation
• Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Evaluations

Civil Law:

• Personal Injury Evaluations
• Employment Discrimination/Harassment Evaluations
• Sexual Harassment Evaluations
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Wrongful Termination
• Immigration/Deportation Evaluations
• Independent Medical Examinations–Psychological
• Malpractice
• Disability Determination

Consultant:

• Work product review
• Assist in preparation of questions for direct and cross examination
• Psychological research on psycho-legal question