Brian S. Andres, Psy.D.

Brian S Psy D. is a retired Chief Psychologist formerly based at the Headquarters of the State of California DSH (Department of State Hospitals), a California Health and Human Services Agency. He has over 12,000 clinically diverse staff providing treatment and has been engaged in a part-time private practice providing psych evaluations, consultations, second opinion evaluations, polytrauma/traumatic brain injury assessments, neuropsych screens, return to work evaluations, and assessments related to various psych trauma experienced by children and adults. Additionally, Brian has a subspecialty in assessing and treating various personal-industrial psych trauma and combat-related trauma, specializing in intelligence law enforcement workers and US military veterans since 1997. Prior to the DSH, Brian worked for the California State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and supervised the Death Row (Condemned) Unit, Maximum Security Adjustment Center, Acute-Crisis-Inpatient Units, Quality Management and Improvement Team at San Quentin State Prison, and several other prisons. Since 1990, Brian has also conducted faculty-supervisor-focused trainings, leadership workshops, and industrial organizational (I/O Psychology) trainings at various agencies, not-for-profit groups, and institutions. He was trained and worked at the University of California San Francisco Medical School (UCSF), Childrens Hospital Research Center at Oakland, the San Francisco VA Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, and Northern California.