1988
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
California
About Colleen
Experience grounded in clinical practice and family-law application
Colleen Moore DeVere, MA, LMFT, MAC, has worked in the addiction field since 1988 and has provided substance-use evaluations and related expertise in family-law matters since 1994.
Her professional background spans treatment-program leadership, clinical supervision, education, evaluation, and monitoring. That experience now supports a practice focused on the questions substance use presents in family-law matters.
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Professional Focus
Clinical Experience Applied to Family-Law Questions
Her work brings clinical information into the practical context of parenting responsibilities, children’s best interests, co-parenting relationships, and court orders.
Her practice now focuses on evaluation, consultation, independent review, and professionally managed abstinence-verification services.
Colleen has served as a professional Soberlink monitor since 2014 and consults on the development of monitoring plans, interpretation of results, and responses to disputed or incomplete compliance.
30+Years in substance-use and family-law work
3,000+Substance-use evaluations completed
2014Providing professional Soberlink monitoring since
Professional Background
A clinical foundation applied to complex cases
Before concentrating her practice on evaluation, consultation, and monitoring, Colleen served as a program director and manager of an outpatient chemical-dependency treatment program specializing in stimulant addiction. Her background also includes clinical supervision of program staff, outpatient program consultation, assessment, intervention, and direct clinical work.
She has taught relapse prevention and substance-use coursework at John F. Kennedy University, California State University, Hayward, and Saint Mary’s College. This combined experience informs her ability to distinguish treatment needs from the neutral, evidence-supported questions presented in family-law matters.
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Education & Credentials
Professional qualifications
2006
Master Addiction Counselor
NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals
1986
MA, Clinical Psychology
Antioch University, Los Angeles
1984
BA, Psychology
California State University, Northridge
Professional Education
Professional presentations
These presentations addressed the use of substance-use evaluations in family-law matters, effective Soberlink monitoring, and the role of random alcohol and drug testing.
- Sacramento Collaborative Divorce Group Retreat
- Virtual Divorce of California
- Collaborative Divorce Symposium
- Placer County Family Court Services
- AFCC Annual Symposium
- Yolo County Family Court Services
- Sacramento ACFLS Luncheon
- Placer County Bar Association
- Sacramento FLEC Luncheon
Professional Affiliations
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts AFCC
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists CAMFT
NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals NAADAC
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