Brittany Cunningham, PhD
$250/hour
DrCunningham@nps-ca.com or 707.203.2001
Dr. Cunningham has extensive experience treating and assessing both juveniles and adults in a variety of forensic, outpatient, and private practice settings. She has over 10 years experience conducting comprehensive assessments utilizing objective personality, academic, intellectual, projective personality, malingering, competency, and risk measures for the purposes of diagnostic clarification and to provide the courts with appropriate placement recommendations, sentencing decisions, and treatment targets. Throughout her career, she has regularly collaborated with an interdisciplinary network of professionals including probation staff, mental health providers, attorneys, judges, and education staff in order to develop suitable assessment recommendations that inform case disposition, placement, and treatment interventions. She has provided testimony in both expert witness and fact witness roles for adults and juveniles. In her current position at the Department of State Hospitals-Napa (DSH-Napa), Dr. Cunningham currently works in a post-trial capacity with patients committed pursuant to PC 1026 Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity where she is a unit psychologist at the state’s only Intensive Substance Recovery Unit (ISRU) dedicated to treating and assessing PC 1026 patients with dual diagnoses. Dr. Cunningham also serves as the lead trainer for a research-based training program that provides education and intervention techniques utilizing a trauma-informed care approach.
Beth Shea, PhD
$200/hour
DrShea@nps-ca.com or 707.266.6652
Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Shea graduated from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago in 2016. She has extensive experience working with forensic populations for assessment, crisis and therapeutic purposes. Dr. Shea completed an APA-accredited internship with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health within the Los Angeles County Jail and subsequently completed her post-doctoral hours at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Los Angeles, an all-female jail, as a member of the Jail Mental Evaluation Team (JMET). She has worked with inmate-patients with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Psychiatric Inpatient setting both in the Acute and Intermediate settings, as well as work in the Mental Health Crisis Bed unit. In addition to her work in the forensic setting, Dr. Shea has worked with Kaiser Permanente Outpatient Therapy as well as out-patient telehealth through Doctors on Demand. Dr. Shea currently holds full-time privileges with the Department of State Hospitals - Napa State Hospital where she works as a unit Psychologist with patients who have been committed as Incompetent to Stand Trial (PC 1370). During her tenure with CDCR and DSH-Napa, Dr. Shea has also pursued additional training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. At Napa Psychological Services, Dr. Shea focuses on clinical and forensic assessments for diagnostic clarification and intellectual functioning, including assessing for dementia and ADHD for children and adults.
$200/hour
Omyda Hernandez, PhD
$300/hour
DrHernandez@nps-ca.com 707.266.6652
Dr. Hernandez is a licensed clinical psychologist who holds a PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and holds hospital privileges in DBT and General Psychology at Napa State Hospital. Dr. Hernandez specializes in helping clients navigate issues around ethnic/racial identity, biculturalism, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She brings a social and racial justice lens to therapy, exploring the impact of immigration, ethnic/racial identity, or cultural issues that impact personal and professional life. She uses a combination of psychodynamic, multicultural, DBT, CBT, and Solution Focused modalities to help clients reduce stress and improve their ability to achieve personal and professional goals. She enjoys working with clients who are bright, motivated, and professionally driven.
In addition to the above, Dr. Hernandez specializes in the evaluation and treatment of ADHD for children, adolescents, and adults, and hold certifications in ADHD and success coaching. She brings a strong background in understanding the unique challenges of those who are twice exceptional (2e), which refers to those who are intellectually gifted with a secondary type of neurodivergence (ADHD, dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder, or other learning disabilities).
Dr. Hernandez is passionate about clinical supervision and training! Since 2017 she has held numerous clinical training and supervision roles for pre-doctoral interns and post-doctoral psychology fellows. Since 2017, she has held positions at the Access Institute for Psychological Services as an adjunct faculty member, psychological assessment supervisor, and clinical supervisor for psychology interns and post-doctoral fellows. At Napa State Hospital she has held positions in the Clinical Psychology Internship Program as a psychological assessment supervisor, clinical rotation supervisor, and didactic instructor. Additionally, she currently serves as a medical staff proctor and co-chair of the Napa State Hospital Psychology Department Credentials Committee.
Molly Brown, PsyD
$300/hour
DrBrown@nps-ca.com 707.266.6652
Dr. Molly Brown is currently an Assistant Chief Psychologist for the California Department of State Hospitals (DSH) in the Forensics Services Division. Previously, she worked as a Consulting Psychologist in DSH’s Jail Based Competency Evaluation Unit overseeing JBCT programs throughout the state. Before starting work at DSH, Dr. Brown served as a Community Program Director for two Northern California CONREP programs. She has experience with forensic writing and evaluation, trial competency, not guilty by reason of insanity, mentally disordered offender evaluations, and in-depth sex offender treatment and evaluation. Dr Brown has been working in the forensic mental health field for over ten years. She earned both her doctoral and master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California.
Dr. Brown can conduct general forensic evaluations, mental health diversion, and sentencing mitigation but cannot accept DSH cases (1370 PC or 1026 PC).
Ramsey Khouri, PsyD
$300/hour
DrKhouri@nps-ca.com or 707-266-6652
Dr. Khouri can conduct general forensic evaluations, mental health diversion, and sentencing mitigation but cannot accept DSH cases (1370 PC or 1026 PC).