Martin H Williams

Dr. Martin H. Williams has offices in San Jose, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento and San Diego. He has never failed to qualify as an expert in any Criminal, Civil or Administrative matter. He is an experienced psychological expert who has given sworn expert testimony in over 200 cases in the United States and abroad. Dr. Williams has consulted on well over 2000 licensing board, civil (state and federal) and criminal matters. He currently carries out fitness for duty evaluations for California professional licensing boards (physicians, dentists, chiropractors, nurses, psychotherapists, etc), as well as evaluations and testimony for security clearance appeals (CIA, NSA, DoD). He is a Forensic Evaluator for the Superior Court of California, offering court appointed testimony on competency to stand trial and insanity defense. He was formerly a Forensic Psychologist with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Board of Parole Hearings, and carried out risk assessments of potential parolees.

A University of California, Berkeley psychologist, he is respected for his work on psychotherapy ethics and malpractice, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), professional risk management, fitness for duty, assessment of emotional harm, malingering and sexual harassment. In addition to his forensic work, Dr. Williams has served ten years as Peer Review chair for the Psychiatry Department at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Santa Clara, California and is in full-time clinical and forensic practice. Dr. Williams specializes in the treatment of patients with Substance Abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder, Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia.

Dr. Williams has held an elected position on the Board of Directors of Psychologists in Independent Practice, a Division of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Williams served as the official representative of that Division to the Ethics Code Task Force of the American Psychological Association, the group that created the 2002 revision of the Ethics Code. Dr. Williams has offered seminars on ethics and risk management at meetings of the American Psychological Association, the American College of Forensic Psychology, the Nevada Psychological Association, Lehigh Valley Psychological Association, The Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the American Acadamy of Psychotherapists.

Dr. Williams is the author of over 25 published articles and book chapters that have appeared in professional publications and has recently completed a six year term as Associate Editor and Editor of the national professional publication, The Independent Practitioner.

Please contact Dr. Williams to discuss your case.