Christina P. Gliser, PhD, ABPP

Background

Dr. Gliser was born and raised in Panama City, Florida. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology and criminology at the University of Florida in 2007. Dr. Gliser joined the U.S. Air Force in 2008, where she served as a Security Forces officer. In this role, her responsibilities included law enforcement, asset security, base defense, and counterterrorism operations. She joined the Air Force Reserves in 2012 and began her graduate training at West Virginia University soon after. Dr. Gliser earned her master's degree in clinical psychology with specialization in forensic psychology in 2014. From 2016 to 2017, she completed a pre-doctoral internship with the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Missouri. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology with specialization in forensic psychology from West Virginia University in 2017. From 2017 to 2018, she served as a forensic postdoctoral fellow with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, in partnership with East Central Regional Hospital and Augusta University.

Professional Career

During her graduate training, Dr. Gliser provided treatment and assessment in correctional, forensic/general inpatient, outpatient mental health, academic medical center, and private practice settings. While she was a pre-doctoral intern, she conducted psychological treatment and evaluations of adjudicative competence, criminal responsibility, and violence risk for federal inmates in mental health and general population units. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she was charged with conducting evaluations of competency to stand trial, violence risk assessment, and criminal responsibility. Dr. Gliser relocated to Colorado in the fall of 2018 and took a position as a state forensic evaluator with Court Services in the Office of Behavioral Health, in partnership with the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo. In this position, she completed competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility evaluations and supervised pre-doctoral interns, postdoctoral fellows, and other psychologists with regard to forensic and general assessment. While in Colorado, Dr. Gliser also worked as an evaluator at Brower Psychological Services, where she completed pre-employment and fitness for duty evaluations for police officers, firefighters, paramedics, dispatchers, analysts, and other public safety applicants for state and federal agencies. She moved with her family back to Georgia and joined Forensic Specialty Group in May 2021. In addition to her work in private practice, she serves as a contractor in Colorado performing forensic evaluations for the state; in Florida conducting psychological assessments for the Military Resiliency Unit at Emerald Coast Behavioral Hospital; and as an adjunct professor at Kennesaw State University.

Currently, the primary focus of Dr. Gliser’s work is general and forensic psychological assessment. She is available to provide evaluations with respect to psychosexual issues, adjudicative competence, insanity, mitigation, violence risk assessment, post-conviction relief, juvenile transfer, general diagnostic issues, and first responder pre-employment and fitness for duty. She also provides training and consultation for first responders with respect to psychopathology and performance and conducts research on prediction/mitigation of violent behavior, psychopathy, and forensic assessment.

Certifications

Dr. Gliser is board-certified in Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. She is currently licensed to practice psychology in Georgia, Colorado, and Florida and is also listed on the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.

Professional Associations

American Board of Forensic Psychology

American Academy of Forensic Psychology

Colorado Psychological Association

Georgia Psychological Association

National Register of Health Service Psychologists

International Association of Chiefs of Police

American Psychological Association

Psychologists in Public Service

Society for Military Psychology

American Psychology & Law Society

Military Officers Association of America