Dr. Cunningham

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 on the 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.