Your order names one specific thing. Before you book anyone, find out whether the provider in front of you can actually satisfy it. We read the order on the first call and tell you which category you are in, whether we are the right provider, and what the court gets back from us.
Quick answer: Court ordered therapy at FC PsychExperts covers individual counseling, anger and emotional regulation therapy, co-parenting therapy, reunification therapy, family therapy tied to a dependency case plan, and therapy that follows a psychological evaluation, delivered by Florida-licensed clinicians who have worked with Florida courts since 2008. You get dated attendance records, a progress summary and a completion letter, released only to the people your order and your signed release name. We are not a DCF-certified batterers’ intervention program and not a DCF-approved parent education course provider; if your order names either of those, we point you at the state list on the first call instead of taking your intake. Seen in person at 210 Jupiter Lakes Blvd in Jupiter, or by secure video anywhere in Florida your order permits telehealth. Call (561) 870-0411.
We take individual counseling, anger and regulation, co-parenting, reunification, dependency family therapy and post-evaluation treatment. A certified batterers’ program and the state parenting course are not ours, and we say so before you book.
Give the office your next hearing date and it schedules backwards from it. You get written confirmation the same day you book, which is what a case manager or probation officer will ask you for.
A dated attendance log, a progress summary written in plain language for a legal reader, and a completion letter on letterhead. Your signed release decides who receives them.
Nobody explains this part at the clerk window. Here is every stage, and what you walk away with at each one.
Photograph it or read it to us. We name the category, flag any provider restriction, and say yes or no before you commit to anything.
You sign a release naming exactly who receives documents. Your clinician writes the treatment plan and puts in writing what finishing this requirement looks like.
Fifty minutes on the issues your order names. Attendance is logged the same day, and a copy is yours on request without explaining why you want it.
Your attorney, your case manager or the court asks; a dated summary leaves the office inside the window your order sets. No opinions about your case, just status.
Dates, requirement, and a statement that it was satisfied, on practice letterhead over a Florida-licensed signature. That is the page the judge reads.
Orders are written in court language, and the 15th Judicial Circuit does not treat these as interchangeable. Four things decide everything: the program named, the deadline, any restriction on who may deliver it, and who receives the proof. Find those 4 on your paper, then read across.
Two of those 8 belong to somebody else, and they are the 2 people most often get wrong. Cases elsewhere in the county run through the same clinicians and the same paperwork: see court ordered therapy across Palm Beach County.
Two official Florida sources give 2 different lengths for a batterers’ intervention program. If your order names one, that gap is yours to manage.
The 15th Judicial Circuit’s own program page describes a 6-month intensive containing “an initial assessment, orientation, and at least twenty-six (26) weeks of group counseling sessions.”
Fla. Stat. 741.325(1)(c) puts the floor somewhere else. The program “shall be at least 29 weeks in length and include 24 weekly sessions, plus appropriate intake, assessment, and orientation programming.”
Three weeks apart. We are not going to smooth that over for you.
Work from 29 weeks when you map your calendar, then make the certified program put your session count and your projected end date in writing before the first group. A 3-week gap between what a court page says and what the statute says is exactly the kind of gap that turns into a violation hearing. Take both numbers to your attorney rather than picking the one you prefer.
There is a second figure worth knowing. Rule 65H-2.016(6)(b) sets every group session at one hour and 30 minutes, breaks excluded. Twenty-four of those is 36 hours seated in a room, which is the commitment nobody quotes you. The certified providers are listed on the DCF batterers’ intervention program page.
A therapist who has never written for a judge produces a letter that raises questions. Reports and testimony are the larger half of what this practice does, and your paperwork inherits that habit: dated, specific, and silent on anything nobody asked about.
Format illustration only. Your documents are written to the order in your file.
You did not choose to be here. We are not going to pretend you did, and we are not going to make the process heavier than the order already makes it.
At this practice those are always 2 different people, and the reason is written into Florida evidence law.
One clinician is working on how you function. The other is answering a question a judge asked. Merge them and you damage both jobs at once: the report becomes easy to attack on cross-examination, and the therapy turns into a room where saying the wrong thing has consequences.
Fla. Stat. 90.503(4)(b) removes psychotherapist-patient privilege entirely “for communications made in the course of a court-ordered examination of the mental or emotional condition of the patient.” Not narrowed. Removed.
Which room you are sitting in therefore decides what your words can be used for. Inside treatment, privilege holds and we release only what your order and your release allow. Inside a court-ordered examination, there is no privilege to hold, and the person across from you is writing for the judge. Where an order calls for both, we assign 2 clinicians and put that in writing before you start.
Parents run into a second rule. Fla. Stat. 61.13(2)(b)3.a. provides that where the court has ordered shared parental responsibility over health care decisions, either parent may consent to mental health treatment for the child unless stated otherwise in the parenting plan. Read the plan beside the order. Silence in the plan means either parent can sign; language in the plan overrides the default.
Professionals can send a client directly. Individuals can call holding nothing but the order. Either route starts with the same conversation.
Dr. Colet opened FC PsychExperts in 2008 and has been court-appointed across Florida’s 1st, 15th, 17th, 19th and 20th Judicial Circuits ever since. Nearer to this courthouse, she sat on the Operation Youth Violence Task Force in West Palm Beach County, working directly with police officers.
On the criminal side her caseload runs to competency to proceed for adults and juveniles, competency to waive Miranda rights, criminal responsibility, violence risk and mitigation. On the family side it is custody, parental capacity and child custody evaluations. She signs off on how court-referred files are documented here. Member of the American Psychological Association and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, with a full CV published and dated April 2026.
Handles: evaluations · expert testimony · documentation oversight · attorney coordination
Two decades treating adults, couples and families around emotional and behavioral difficulty, weighted toward regulation and recovery. She runs the practice’s individual therapy and carries most of the anger and regulation orders, the co-parenting work and the family sessions. Her style is unsentimental and concrete: name the trigger, describe what you did, decide what replaces it, then build a record that proves the change to you before it proves anything to a court.
Handles: individual and anger orders · co-parenting · dependency family therapy · recovery
“I have worked with Dr. Colet for several years. I have found her to always be highly professional and an excellent forensic psychologist. I do not hesitate to refer clients to her.”
Maria CammarataAttorney at Law
“The forensic evaluation provided by this team was incredibly thorough and meticulously detailed. Their expertise and careful approach made a significant impact on our legal case.”
Jennifer E.Client
“She is very matter of fact and doesn’t waste any time getting the job done, and yet there is most definitely a sense of compassionate wisdom and client care.”
Georgia W.Client, on Dr. Colet
The Main Judicial Complex sits at 205 North Dixie Highway. Our office is 210 Jupiter Lakes Blvd, Unit 4-201, roughly 20 minutes straight up I-95. Broward matters are handled from a second office on West Cypress Creek Road in Fort Lauderdale.
Related West Palm Beach services: individual therapy, family therapy, couples therapy, co-parenting therapy, and immigration evaluation.
Yes, for order types that allow a Florida-licensed clinician. That covers individual counseling, anger and emotional regulation work, co-parenting therapy, reunification therapy, family therapy tied to a case plan, and therapy that follows a psychological evaluation. Sessions run 50 minutes, weekly or every other week, in person at our Jupiter office or by secure video anywhere in Florida where your order permits telehealth.
No. A batterers’ intervention program must be certified by the Florida Department of Children and Families under Chapter 65H-2 of the Florida Administrative Code. We are not certified, so we cannot satisfy that order. If your order names a batterers’ intervention program, use the DCF provider locator and pick from that list. We tell you this on the first call, before you start anything with us.
No. The Parent Education and Family Stabilization Course under Fla. Stat. 61.21 must come from a provider approved by the Department of Children and Families. We are not on that list. The course runs a minimum of 4 hours and is separate from any therapy your order also requires.
The 15th Judicial Circuit’s own program page describes at least 26 weeks of group counseling inside a 6-month program. Fla. Stat. 741.325(1)(c) sets the floor at 29 weeks with 24 weekly sessions plus intake, assessment and orientation. Those 2 numbers do not match. Plan your calendar around the statute, and get the session count in writing from the certified program before you enroll.
Dated attendance records signed by your clinician, a progress summary written for a legal reader, and a completion letter on practice letterhead when the requirement is met. Documents go to you, your attorney, probation or the court, and only to the people named in the release you sign at intake.
Your treatment sessions carry psychotherapist-patient privilege, and we release only what your order and your signed release cover. A court-ordered examination is different. Fla. Stat. 90.503(4)(b) says the privilege does not apply to communications made during a court-ordered examination of your mental or emotional condition. Know which one you are sitting in before you speak, and ask us if the order is unclear.
Not at this practice. Your treating clinician works on your functioning. An evaluator answers a legal question for the judge. We keep those roles with different people, which is why a report from us survives cross-examination and why your therapy stays usable. If your order calls for both, we staff them separately.
First appointments are usually available within the same week. Tell us your court date on the first call and the office schedules around it. You get an appointment confirmation you can show your attorney, your case manager or probation.
Fla. Stat. 61.13(2)(b)3.a. says that when the court orders shared parental responsibility over health care decisions, either parent may consent to mental health treatment for the child unless stated otherwise in the parenting plan. Read your plan next to your order. If the plan names a specific protocol or a specific clinician, the plan controls.
Read who the order names. If it directs you to the Palm Beach County Forensic Psychology office, that office requires a court order and does not take self-referrals; their number is (561) 355-2108. If the order leaves the evaluator open or names a private forensic psychologist, we perform evaluations in house and can discuss fit on the first call.
Often, yes. Florida permits telehealth, and many orders allow it. Some orders and some probation officers require in person attendance, and a certified program has its own rules. Send us the order and we will confirm before you book.
Call the same day. Say what happened, when your next hearing is, and what the order requires. We will tell you whether we can meet it, and if we cannot, which list or which county office can.
Photograph the paperwork and bring it to the call. The office identifies which of the 8 categories you are in, confirms whether we can satisfy it, and books the earliest appointment that clears your hearing date. You leave with written confirmation for your attorney or your case manager. If the answer is that we are not your provider, you leave with the right state list or county number instead, which is still a useful phone call.