If you are working your way through the immigration system--engaged in an Asylum, U-Visa, VAWA, or Hardship Waiver/Cancellation of Removal case--and seeking to more effectively tell your story, a psychological evaluation may help you build a stronger case.
Whitney provides comprehensive assessments and personalized evaluations leveraging her clinical expertise to communicate complex psychological information related to your story.
Whitney has completed hundreds of mental health evaluations in a variety of contexts. Advanced training with The Immigration Evaluation Training Center has contributed to additional skills-specific development for navigating these layered cases. A social work background contributes to Whitney's person-centered, strengths-based lens and her thorough, systems-based, trauma-informed approach. Clients can expect a collaboration in which Whitney works closely with both client and lawyer with warmth, compassion, and curiosity during this intensive process.
The process includes a brief initial consultation, two interview meetings with the client totaling about three hours, and a personalized, comprehensive written evaluation forwarded to both client and lawyer. Currently, Whitney provides services via a secure video conferencing platform and can work with interpreters. Expedited turnaround is available at this time.
Asylum Cases: evaluations can help demonstrate reasons that a client has missed the one-year filing deadline and/or detail psychological symptoms associated with past persecution.
Extreme Hardship Cases: evaluations may help identify unique factors contributing to a client's psychological distress (illness; disability; professional/financial hardship; adverse home-country conditions).
VAWA Cases: evaluations detail presenting symptoms common for victims of violence, assess client credibility, and demonstrate how abusers used a client's undocumented status to exert power and control.
$1200 includes:
Initial 20-minute consultation
Two interview sessions totaling about three hours
One personalized written evaluation (generally ranging from 10-20 pages)
Sliding scale and payment plans may be available
Credit and debit cards and cash accepted
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