Sepideh Souris, PsyD

Dr. Sepideh Souris is a forensic and police psychologist with more than two decades of leadership experience in public sector psychological services. For 21 years, she served as the Chief of Psychological Services for the Los Angeles County Psychological Services Unit (PSU), where she also held the role of Senior Human Resources Manager, overseeing Occupational Health Programs, disability management, and compliance. In this capacity, she directed pre-employment, occupationally mandated evaluations and disability management operations for all 40 County departments and commissions, including the full spectrum of public safety evaluations such as Psychological Fitness for Duty examinations and specialized assessments for law enforcement and safety sensitive personnel. Dr. Souris has provided expert testimony in more than 25 Civil Service Commission matters and in multiple cases before the Los Angeles County Superior Court. She has delivered extensive training on pre employment psychological evaluations, fitness for duty evaluations, threat assessment, and workplace violence prevention. At the request of the U.S. Department of State, she presented on pre employment psychological evaluation practices for law enforcement personnel at the 4th International Conference in Mexico City. Her professional work also includes a private forensic practice focused on FFDEs, appeals, IMEs, and specialized forensic evaluations. She is the author of the chapter “Integration of Internet Based Data in Pre Employment and Fitness for Duty Psychological Evaluations in the Law Enforcement Arena,” published in Forensic Mental Health Evaluations in the Digital Age, reflecting years of applied experience and consultation with national experts. Dr. Souris currently serves as the Manager of the Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Team for Los Angeles County and is an active member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. She has held academic appointments as an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine and as adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University and California State University, Fullerton.