Trauma, sexual assault, child abuse, psychiatry
Contact this Expert Witness
- Company: Watkins Family Health & Counseling
- Phone: 479-485-3322
- Cell: 479-957-2130
- Fax: 860-540-4646
- Website: www.watkinsfhc.com
Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness
General Specialties:
Psychiatry and Child AbuseKeywords/Search Terms:
Child sexual abuse, medical malpractice psychiatry, depression, urgent care cases, sexual assault, forensic consultant, bipolar, family practice, Trauma, Sexual assault nurse examiner, betrayal trauma, university sexual assault cases, Psychotherapy, medication management, EMDR, physical abuseEducation:
DNP Psychiatric Mental Health, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, TN; Master of Nursing Science/Family Nurse Practitioner, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York; BSN (Nursing), Excelsior University, Albany, New York; RN, Baptist School of Nursing, Springdale, ArkansasYears in Practice:
20+Additional Information
Dr. Charla Watkins is a Doctor of Nursing Practice in Psychiatric Mental Health. She is also a Family Nurse Practitioner and a Forensic Nurse Examiner who has conducted approximately 2,000 sexual assault exams of children, adolescents and adults and conducted 1,500 forensic interviews. Dr. Watkins is an experienced clinician and expert witness. She earned her doctorate at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee and her doctoral research is in human sex trafficking. Dr. Watkins is passionate about patient care, forensic case work. She has a private practice in Fayetteville, Arkansas where she specializes in trauma therapy, depression, anxiety, abuse cases, bipolar illness, grief, betrayal trauma and medication management for psychiatry patients across the lifespan. Dr. Watkins has experience in working medical malpractice cases, case consultation and expert testimony. She focuses on being a neutral objective fact finder and keys in on truth and facts in all her case work.