Dr. Washam brings decades of clinical practice and advanced psychoanalytic training to difficult parent-child relationships, including estrangement, contested family litigation, and long periods of interrupted contact.
Clinical experience
His court-related work since 2020 has included more than 55 high-conflict family matters involving reunification therapy, co-parenting interventions, and related treatment. When clinically appropriate and authorized, he works with other professionals while maintaining clear limits on his own role.
His formulation of a case is informed by psychoanalysis and object-relations theory, attachment, developmental psychology, and family-systems perspectives. Assessment attends to the child’s internal experience and age, the history of attachment and care, the behavior of adults, relevant records, potential harm, and possible interference with the relationship. The formulation and treatment plan are reconsidered as new information emerges.
Professional formation
Dr. Washam’s advanced professional education includes psychoanalytic studies at the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Institute and the Seabury Institute of Pastoral Psychotherapy, along with legal education concerning child and family law. His curriculum vitae provides the complete record of professional education, clinical training, and credentials.
Dr. Washam’s professional statement identifies licensure as an LMFT in Kentucky and Virginia, LPCC in Kentucky, and LCSW in Indiana. Current license status, scope, and cross-jurisdictional questions should be confirmed for a proposed engagement.
Documentation and appointment
Attorneys and appointing authorities may request the current curriculum vitae, license and credential documentation, clinical role statement, fee schedule, and other materials relevant to a proposed engagement.
Treatment should begin only after the participants and referring professionals understand the purpose of the engagement, the sources of information to be considered, consent, confidentiality and its limits, communications, reports, and financial obligations. The clinical assignment does not itself constitute a custody evaluation.
Sources & further reading
Dr. Charles W. Washam: Professional Statement of Qualifications and Methodology
Dr. Washam: professional biography