Dr. Mary Catherine Oconnor, PhD

Told me I had a mental disorder because i left an abusive partner.

Can ruin in your life in one visit. In just one visit she wrote up an evaluation on myself and my daughter subsequently giving custody to the mother. Happy

I agree and do not think Mary is all fair in court ordered evaluations. Gave a registered sex offender more rights over caring mother. Whatever you do don’t be forth coming or truthful to dr O’Connor when it comes to custody.

Rather than assisting my teenage son understand and cope with his anger and shame following his suicide attempt, this panderer of human misery fueled my son's rage and redirected it toward his mother. She managed to do this in her initial 20 minute visit with my son, knowing nothing of our family, my son's mental health history, and having never met or spoken to my son's mother. After destroying any sense of love or safety he may have derived from his relationship with his mother, she informed us that her schedule was booked and would not see him for at least another five weeks. My son had just returned home following a ten day inpatient stay at Four Winds. Mary O'Connor is a reckless and damaging instigator - it is a travesty that our medical and legal systems allow for one so lacking in moral and ethical standards to hold sway over our families.

When the court appointed Dr. O'Connor to do a forensic evaluation, I found her to be highly lacking. She only used her first impression scratch-the-surface interviews, and the MMPI evaluation which she deemed "inconclusive" so she could support the myriad of lies my ex told her, despite the amount of evidence of emails, recorded phone calls, abusive child exchanges captured on video and collaterals of school personnel and the children's therapist . She completely disregarded the fact that the appointments were also unfairly setup, mine during my ex's parenting time, something my ex was clearly unhappy about. And hers, after Dr O'Connor had to contact me to get an appointment, because my ex neglected to do so in the first place, and then had 2 weeks of sole custody with my children to indoctrinate and prepare them for their appointment, a time which my ex would not even let me speak to my children. Dr. O'Connor seems to take people's money and not do the thorough job the court, and… my family depended on her to do, which has caused nothing but unnecessary hardship on my children. She has no business accepting forensic evaluation jobs if she doesn't plan to give them their rightful attention. Families depend on her, and her complete lack of work shows how much she just doesn't care.