Karin D. Huffer, M.S., M.F.T.
Karin Huffer brings research on traumatic stress into the court process.
PTSD is routinely exploited in our courts. She confronts power differential that keeps such litigation from a just conclusion.
Ms. Huffer demonstrates the effects of trauma on litigants and provides sound documentation to eliminate legal games.
When needed, she designs accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act that ensures every person's inviolate access to fair due process in our courts.
She dispells myths such as, "a litigant with PTSD is an unfit parent," or,"she/he has had many attorneys therefore her/his case cannot be sound," and other nonsense used to keep litigants from implementing their rightsto fair access.
She serves in cases involving:
Karin Huffer works to carry out the United States Department of Justice mandates Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibiting discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities, in the Court, 28 C.F.R. §35.130(a). She facilitates compliance with The American Bar Association Resolution of 2002 demanding full access and participation in courts for disabled. She designs accommodations for litigants with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). She provides supportive counsel, coaches, advocates for fair access, and serve as an expert witness under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title II, ADA of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §12131-12134, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, and The ADAAA, 2008. She determines and relates to the court the specific litigation activities that induce PTSD/LAS. Legal Abuse Syndrome is a unique, traumatic condition that prevents Due Process of Law and access to the court. Without accommodations and close monitoring to ensure ADA and ABA guidelines and safeguards are sustained throughout litigation, PTSD is worsened by Legal Abuse Syndrome (LAS). The entire body of nearly a quarter century of her work devoted to PTSD/LAS is now at the forefront diligently preventing Legal Abuse Syndrome through education and implementation of accommodations.
Professional Memberships
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT) Clinical Member
Phi Delta Kappa, Educational Fraternity
EMDRIA Professional Association Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Nevada Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (NAMFT) Clinincal Member
Written works and publications
Unpublished, "Soul Murder of the American Dream," a work outlining a metamorphosis in the judicial system leaving seekers of justice without the resources they expect.
Published for peer review only, Legal Abuse Syndrome, proposing protocols for assisting those encountering ethical and forensic stress. This work broadens the concept of Legal Abuse Syndrome to all bureaucratic systems representing power differential.
Overcoming the Devastation of Legal Abuse Syndrome, 234-page text, self-help/textbook.
Editor and columnist, "Dear Karin," for biweekly magazine, Nevada Woman.
Columnist, "The Human Side," for Risk Management magazine, national circulation.
Article "Legal Abuse Syndrome: Fact or Fad" Diogenes The Magazine. national
Research results presented and published, "Survey of Family Court Litigation Participants Measuring Perceived Legal Abuses and Public Health Risk."
"Judicial System Inaccessibility For Those With Psychiatric Injury- Legal Abuse Syndrome as a Psychiatric Injury and Diagnosable Subcategory of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder."
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