Kathleen Mayers is a clinical psychologist licensed in the states of Washington and Nevada. She was educated at Purdue University and the University of California, Irvine, and completed her B.S. and Ph. D. in Biological Sciences. She completed additional education and training in the area of Clinical Psychology, completed a post-doctoral internship in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and was licensed as a clinical psychologist in 1973 in Washington State and in 1999 in the state of Nevada. She joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1983 and served as a “weekend warrior” until 1991 and again in 2003, joining the Active Duty Army. She retired from the Army in 2003 from Ft. Carson as a Lt. Col.

Through her career, she has worked in a wide variety of areas. Her research through graduate school focused on neurophysiology and brain function, and later, as a clinical psychologist, she continued to work in both clinical and research areas. She has published widely in professional journals and has also provided numerous presentations through the U.S. Her interests have been quite varied and have included developing brain function, enhancing functioning in individuals with dementia diagnoses, accommodations and specialized services for geriatric patients and for those with dementia diagnoses, strategies for evaluation and treatment after sexual abuse of children and adults, sexuality and disability, sexuality awareness training for caretakers of geriatric residents, forensic evaluation, serving as an expert witness, PTSD, and psychological injury. She has worked in many area in which the courts require psychological expert witnesses through her career, including civil commitment, child abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, custody and visitation, adoption proceedings, the juvenile justice system, the adult justice system, sentencing, the mentally ill offender, competency to stand trial, criminal insanity, courts martial, and personal injury.

She continues to be in private practice in both Washington State and Las Vegas, NV, with a current focus on disability evaluation for Social Security Disability.