Dr. Fallin tested and evaluated my son for ADHD. I cannot tell you how much I appreciated his approach and method of treatment for my child. He was able to allow me to recognize my parenting method was not working for my child and offered workable solutions. Currently, my son is being treated with medication and is thriving in school and our home is now a peaceful. I cannot thank Dr. Fallin enough for his insight and encouragement to get my son on the path of success. I highly recommend him. read more

I saw Dr. Fallin for personal counseling. I had been to other counsellors in years gone by, but none helped me achieve my goals more than Dr. Fallin. I like how he helped lead me to discover some behaviors and attitudes that were sabotaging my relationships with loved ones. I know that I will always use the things I learned and discovered in therapy to make my relationships better. It's never too late to learn/change/better your life. On the personal/business side, I found Dr Fallin to be professional, highly ethical and straight forward. I'm continually grateful for his insight and the changes I made in my life because of it. read more

Been with Dr. Fallin for 3 years now. Very consistent, calm, and I receive effective tools to cope with life.

Dr. Fallin does have some smarts but he exercises them in a careless manner. He might serve you just fine in psychotherapy but if you are debating who to choose for a custody evaluation, look elsewhere. He misses deadlines, stays incommunicado for a month at a time in the middle of important parts of the evaluation and his report for us was biased and somewhat random - as if he wrote it in a hurry. He contradicts himself and uses up pages making presumptions on aspects about which he knows very little. He also declared that it is 'really unusual' for a troubled child to act out only at school OR at home; that they always act out in both. Any therapist worth their salt knows this to be a very common thing in children- that plays out for numerous reasons. Here is my advice if for some reason, you end up with for a CCE. Act really nice and calm and smile a lot. Reveal nothing that he might determine as even slightly 'bad'. Just be careful. Do not believe him when he tells you can be very open with him. And don't swear - not even once. He dislikes it and labels swearing as 'provocative language used to manipulate emotions'. It's almost funny. Thank goodness we got lucky to have a judge who realized the sloppiness of his confusing findings. She knew enough to rule in the way that was best for the kids regardless of his $8K "report". It wasn't a waste of money though- I and the kids are now protected from a lot of chaos, bullying and chaotic behavior by the resulting order. And that feels great. P.s added 12/6/17 Note Dr Fallon's response to my review is to say some parents are upset with the outcome. Note in review I stated we were fine with outcome but repelled by his clumsy, careless process. This is a concrete example of his lack of ability to sound perfectly reasonable yet not be able to understand a basic statement provided to him. read more

I agree with Science L. and DV H. I share a similar experience with Dr Fallin (ie knowing misquotes, ridiculous contradictions, apparent bias, and irrelevant investigations) I could not agree more with DV H's statement that:"There were quotes around things never said, and a clear disregard for documentation provided to support our claims, while other claims were accepted based on hearsay alone." That is pattern and practice for a 730 Eval. Don Fallin is a part of the family law machine and makes his living from custody evaluations which are referred by lawyers and judges. This results in a strong potential for bias and conflict of interest. I don't believe Don has any substantial private therapeutic practice from what I've learned from other psychologists I know. At our first meeting Don stated to me "This evaluation is so unnecessary it makes me want to peel off my very own face". He was familiar with my case from my personal therapist. At the conclusion he recommended a second evaluation. Once he discovered Cherie Davis was the opposing counsel Don wrote both parties and asked to be excused but was not. I believe Don was struggling with the conflict of interest of being between a familiar family lawyer who did regular business with him and doing the right thing. We ended up with such a confusing and conflicted report that the court was able to cherry-pick what it's bias preferred against me and ignore the conclusion that I never harmed my child and should have shared custody. The court found that the report "made no sense" and threw out the recommendation of return to shared custody. My child and I were ordered back into indefinite supervised visitation for several years until the child finally broke and began cutting herself and threatening suicide. At one point she began hearing voices which told her to harm herself. She has been in several metal hospitals and can't function in school. Eventually, my child refused to attend anymore visitation and I haven't seen or spoken to her for more than a year. She won't even communicate with her six year old brother whom she adores. He lives full time with me and my wife. My daughter could not understand why she had to be the only child supervised. The evaluation portrayed the mother as psychopathological and "jealous of the ease of the father-daughter relationship". Despite Don's findings, the court (Elizabeth Hendrickson) found the " mother is not perfect, but she's within normal limits". There was nothing on the report that would support that finding, however the court hung on the collateral witness lies that I objected to. The court took my child from me completely and gave her to an alienating mother with "just because they wanted too". I was in pro per and did not stand a chance. That is the way it goes in family court. You must pay or you won't even be heard. The record will be changed (felony BTW) but you will not be able to prove it. The opposing counsel will write the Order After Hearing and will put anything they want into it. When you object it will be submitted without your signature. The report from Don unfortunately did more harm than good. It didn't do any good at all, only harm. I was directed by the child's psychologist or I would have never know what a 730 evaluation was. I'm sorry I took legal advice from a therapist instead of a lawyer. All I'm left with is the hope that the nine good years I had with my daughter will sustain her thru this horrible period. Hopefully, she won't continue to harm herself or make good on the suicidal threats. Don't ever hire an Evaluator! If your faced with naked abuse allegations, attack the allegations with a lawyer and fight it out in trial. If there is no evidence then the false allegations will be legally dismissed quickly. An Evaluator will not save you from allegations, they will only serve to muddy the waters just like Dr Fallin did in my case. Evaluators have no accountability for their misdeeds and make purposeful contradictions to provide the court a way of interpreting the information anyway that suits their bias (and there is plenty of that in family court). Evaluators don't want to definitively call out the "unfriendly" or "psychopathological parent" and follow the family code of removing said parent. Nobody wants to be called out on the stand more than an Evaluator. If you read an evaluation you'll see how easy it is for a lawyer to tear apart an Evaluator. Get a good lawyer that can object to the collateral and irrelevant garbage that is placed into these reports and force the court into only considering what is key to the co-parenting conflict. If you are forced into an evaluation make certain your lawyer has a strong relationship with the evaluator (meaning that they regularly send the evaluator assignments) otherwise you will end up with a mess of a report and can outright loose from irrelevant hearsay combined with the judges mere bias. read more

Let me first say, we were happy with the judges decision on custody. This review is not about custody not going our way. It is about a lack of professionalism or humanity on the part of Dr. Fallin. During a stressful and emotional process, Dr. Fallin missed the deadline two times. During those times he did not respond to emails or messages requesting an update, resulting in everyone having to physically take time to go to court and ask for continuances. This took time away from work for both sides of the case. If he had simply responded we could have filed for the extensions well in advance and not been left in the dark until it was too late. When we were nearing the third court date, he had still not contacted all the parties involved. I personally was not contacted until 3 days before the court date. Though I have been a member of the family for 4 years, I was told that the majority of the report was already written and I would not really be influencing anything, as his decisions had been made. He told me had had already written 58 pages of what ended up being a 65 page report. He spoke with me for only about 10 minutes, and in the report managed to misquote me completely. He took my statements and applied his bias, which was evident throughout the report. While he told us the report would be delivered, by hand, over the weekend he did not end up delivering the final report until the day before we were due in court. The reports are supposed to arrive 10 days prior to allow time for review and responses. It read like he had done no independent research whatsoever, but had simply written down what the other party said and signed his own name. There were quotes around things never said, and a clear disregard for documentation provided to support our claims, while other claims were accepted based on hearsay alone. If you want a professional that will also take in to account that all parties in a custody case are going through an emotionally charged and unfamiliar process, I would not recommend Dr. Fallin. As a psychologist I would expect a certain amount of consideration for the emotional well-being of the family members during this stressful process. There was no evidence of that. read more

Keep up the excellent work!!!! Thanks for helping the community and succeeding at your therapy profession.

Dr. Fallin was appointed as an 730 evaluator to assess my psychological state in a custody case. Obviously, this was a fraught process for me but Dr. Fallin's method of interviewing me was engaging and contributed greatly to this being a much more comfortable process than it easily might have been. Dr. Fallin was extremely responsive to e-mail communication and efficient both in conducting the evaluation and writing it up. The resultant document paints a psychological portrait, focusing on the issues raised by the opposing party, which seems relatively accurate to myself, has already proven useful to the court, and which even opposing party's counsel admits is fair-minded and satisfactory. Given the nature of these evaluations, of course disgruntled individuals will post unflattering Yelp reviews. But based on my experiences with him, weighed against my experiences with several other mental health professionals, I would not hesitate to recommend him for custody evaluations, as well as for psychotherapy. read more