Dr. Lauren E. Kaplan is a very highly regarded clinical and forensic psychologist licensed to provide various clinical and forensic evaluation services in three states: Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. She has experience conducting forensic evaluations as well as providing consultative services throughout all stages of criminal and civil proceedings for adults and adolescents.


Dr. Kaplan's private practice, KFPS, offers both clinical and forensic services, including diagnostic assessments and forensic evaluations, therapy, psycho-legal consultation, and expert witness testimony for courts, private attorneys, public defenders, and government agencies.


Dr. Kaplan and KPFS clinicians routinely travel to jails and detention centers, attorneys' offices, and other locations throughout the South and Midwest to effectively provide forensic evaluation services, utilizing only evidence-based methods and widely accepted psychological practices. Dr. Kaplan is accepting referrals from Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio.

Dr. Lauren E. Kaplan is a very highly regarded clinical and forensic psychologist licensed to provide various clinical and forensic evaluation services in three states: Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. She has experience conducting forensic evaluations as well as providing consultative services throughout all stages of criminal and civil proceedings for adults and adolescents.


Dr. Kaplan's private practice, KFPS, offers both clinical and forensic services, including diagnostic assessments and forensic evaluations, therapy, psycho-legal consultation, and expert witness testimony for courts, private attorneys, public defenders, and government agencies.


Dr. Kaplan and KPFS clinicians routinely travel to jails and detention centers, attorneys' offices, and other locations throughout the South and the Midwest to effectively provide forensic evaluation services, utilizing only evidence-based methods, and widely accepted psychological practices. Dr. Kaplan accepts the majority of her referrals from Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, but will also accept cases from other jurisdictions with sufficient notice (at least 6 months).


What is Forensic Psychology?

Criminal

Dr. Kaplan and her team have years of experience providing a variety of juvenile and adult criminal forensic evaluations, to include federal presentence, psychosexual risk, competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility/NGRI, competency to confess, mitigation of sentence, juvenile transfer/waiver evaluations, and many more. 

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Civil

Dr. Kaplan provides independent medical evaluations (IME), in addition to forensic evaluations involving testamentary capacity, guardianship cases, and other situations where there are questions about an individual's mental health, emotional harm, or ability to care for oneself. She also offers private adoption evaluations and parental capacity evaluation services to both private attorneys and government agencies (i.e., JFS, DCBS, & DCS).

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Clinical

Dr. Kaplan and KFPS clinicians use only evidence-based assessment methods and psychological tests to provide a variety of psychological diagnostic evaluation services to the general public.  The majority of diagnostic assessment referrals pertain to questions related to  a possible diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other common, co-occurring diagnoses such as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

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