Matthew L. Ferrara

Dr. Ferrara obtained his doctorate in clinical psychology in 1982. He began his career in forensic psychology in 1985 when he served as the Chief Psychologist for the Texas Youth Commission and later he served as the Chief Psychologist for the Texas Department of Corrections. Since entering private practice around 1991, Dr. Ferrara has worked exclusively with clients who are involved in the court system. He has provided testimony before the legislature for the State of Texas. He has also testified as an expert witness in over 250 court cases. He is responsible for implementing every major sex offender treatment program in the State of Texas and other sex offender treatment programs outside the state of Texas. Dr. Ferrara routinely provides training seminars for mental health professionals, judges, and attorneys. For more information about Dr. Ferrara's forensic psychology practice visit his website http://www.DoctorFerrara.com In addition to his work as a forensic psychologist, Dr. Ferrara has served as a trial consultant on both criminal and civil cases, including high-profile sexual assault cases, wrongful death, trucking, contract, trade secret, product liability, family law matters, intellectual property, and defamation cases. His trial consulting expertise offers hard-to-find perspective to legal teams based on his experience in the courtroom and his intimate knowledge of the psychological scientific research on trials, juries, and the complex nature of decision making. Dr. Ferrara has extensive training in statistical analyses for small group research and he uses this knowledge to analyze focus group data. Most recently, Dr. Ferrara developed a new approach to understanding and addressing the psychological process of forming a verdict, and he has been training numerous attorneys across Texas on this new methodology. His work has also been recently The Jury Expert, the journal of the American Society of Trial Consulting. For more information about Dr. Ferrara's trial consulting practice visit http://www.WestlakeTrialConsulting.com