Services

Scientifically-Backed Psychology with Human Understanding

Psychology is about understanding people, their motivations, and their behavior. Dr. Brovko brings compassionate respect and understanding to all her interactions, even under the worst conditions or in light of the most serious circumstances.

METHODOLOGY MATTERS

Thoroughness Matters.

From scientifically-backed evaluations and detailed reports to the courtesy of prompt replies to emails and phone calls—Dr. Brovko is the expert you want on your side.

Reputation Matters.

As one of the nation’s most trusted and sought-after forensic psychologists, Dr. Brovko’s reports and expert testimony hold weight in the civil and criminal cases she is retained for. Clients and peers always know they can rely on her good word and empirical guidance.

Accountability Matters.

With a belief that everyone deserves access to a quality psychological evaluation, Dr. Brovko is on a mission to elevate the status quo of forensic psychology work in New Mexico and beyond.

Forensic Psychology Services & Expertise

Military Court Martial Cases

Combining both her forensic specialty and knowledge of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), Dr. Brovko expertly collaborates with and provides training to all branches of the military. She offers a full range of specialized services, including pretrial consultation, evaluation and assessment, in-court consultation, expert testimony, and sentencing preparation. She has worked for both the Government and Defense teams on a variety of cases ranging from sexual assault and domestic violence to murder and substance abuse.

Evaluations & Consultations

Delivering empirically-guided, expert consultations allows attorneys, judges, social workers, policymakers, military leaders, and other legal partners to understand what's going on with the people and topics involved in the legal system so that they can make better decisions in the courtroom.

Dr. Brovko does evaluations in all of the following scenarios:

Competency to stand trial
Mental state
Miranda waiver
False confession
Mitigation / Sentencing
Amenability
Risk Assessment (violence, sexual, stalking)
Independent Medical Evaluation (IME)
Diagnostic
Fitness for duty / return to work
Disability
Testamentary capacity
and more...

Training, Research, & Speaking

Not only does Dr. Brovko constantly strive to improve her methodology and learn the most cutting-edge ideas and research available, she’s also highly skilled at presenting this information to her colleagues, her legal counterparts, and others. In addition to speaking on stages around the world, she is adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico in the Psychology Department and the Law School, where she teaches, supervises graduate students, and is involved with IRB-approved research.

Fluent in Psychological Conditions & Legalese

A note from Dr. Brokvo:

As a forensic psychologist, I hold a PhD in psychology and am a legal expert. I translate ideas across both fields, mapping psychological understanding onto legal landscapes.

By leveraging the latest scientific literature and the intuitive elements of human conversation, I explain people—their motivations, their competencies, their experiences.

My role is to tease out the details of what makes someone tick using science. I’m not there to make a judgment—I’m there to lay out the facts about the person in question and how their life’s story relates to the case at hand.

While I have the approachability needed to connect on a human level, I always remain neutral in my clinical opinions and scientific findings.

Specialities with Depth & Breadth

In civilian criminal cases, my work ranges and includes competency to stand trial, Miranda Waiver, mental state at the time of the offense, risk assessment, sentencing, and more.

My civil case work specializes in the assessment of psychological damages resulting from a variety of events, including sexual assaults.

My military case work includes, but is not limited to, sexual assault, murder, possession of child sex abuse material, possession of illegal substances, and domestic violence.

I have experience evaluating people of all ages - from juveniles to adults - and they tend to open up to me because I treat them as whole people, which often leads to the essential insights my clients need to build a case. Even without in-person interviews, I can leverage psychological principles to read the facts of the case and testify about specific topics to push the case forward.

In addition to direct clinical work, I’ve spoken about these topics at academic conferences around the country. I have published book chapters and peer-reviewed articles on topics related to both psychology and the law. My recent work has included the updated manual of the Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Intellectual Disability (CAST*ID; in press, 2023).

I also contract with the State of New Mexico and other government agencies on policy related to psychology and the criminal justice system. In addition to my private practice, I teach at the University of New Mexico, at the Law School as adjunct faculty and in the Psychology Department as a Clinical Associate (LAT).