Dr. Brooke Laufer works as an expert witness and legal consultant in several psychological fields for women who are facing criminal charges. While her specialty is in women’s reproductive mental health, she is also skilled in mitigation work for domestic violence, child abuse, and childhood trauma.

Dr. Laufer is available for psychological evaluations, testimony, and consultation with legal counsel on any criminal cases that are relevant to women’s mental health, including murder, infanticide, filicide, pregnancy denial, neonaticide, intimate partner violence, and child abuse.

Areas of expertise:

• Infant Loss

• Maternal Infanticide/Neonaticide/Filicide

• Sexual Assault

• Addiction

• Custody Cases

• Female Crimes

• Domestic Violence/ Intimate Partner Violence

• Complex Childhood Trauma

Available for assessments and reports:

• Competency to Stand Trial

• Malingering Testing

• Personality Disorders

• PTSD Assessment

• Rebuttal Reports

Cases With:

Center on Wrongful Convictions. Bluhm Legal Clinic @ Northwestern University 

Rights and Restoration Law Group, LLC. Chicago, IL

Women & Survivors Project. Chicago, IL

Illinois Prison Project. Chicago, IL

LARSON & NIPE. Mitchell, SD

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