Welcome to Granite State Forensic!
Welcome to Granite State Forensic & Psychological Assessment, PLLC, conveniently located in Southern New Hampshire.
We offer a variety of assessments to fulfill clinical, educational, employment, and legal needs. Please see our Services page to explore the types of evaluations we conduct further. Additionally, please feel free to contact us to discuss how we may help you today.
Tiffany B. Piascik, PsyD
Dr. Piascik holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont and a doctoral degree in Forensic Psychology from Alliant International University in California. She specializes in psychological and forensic assessment and expert witness testimony. After she completed her doctorate program in 2010, she began working in the California prison system, where she provided individual and group treatment and conducted suicide risk assessments. She then transitioned to family court, where she facilitated child custody mediation and provided custody recommendations and expert witness testimony. She later returned to the prison system, where she provided crisis stabilization and treatment at the largest mental health crisis unit in the state. Prior to leaving California, she worked at a forensic state hospital, where she conducted competency to stand trial evaluations and provided competency restoration treatment. Dr. Piascik returned to the New England area in 2016. She previously held an examiner position at the Office of the Forensic Examiner, where she conducted adult competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility evaluations and testified as an expert witness throughout the criminal courts in New Hampshire. She conducts cognitive and psychological evaluations in the New Hampshire state prison system and is a DHHS-approved evaluator. As a DHHS evaluator she conducts juvenile competency evaluations and court-ordered psychological, psychosexual, and risk evaluations, as well as juvenile transfer evaluations. In the adult criminal courts, Dr. Piascik conducts criminal responsibility evaluations, competency evaluations, sex offender assessments, violence (dangerousness) risk assessments, and sentencing evaluations. Dr. Piascik conducts psychological, fitness-for-duty, adoption, parental capacity, child custody evaluations, worker’s compensation, social security disability, and psychoeducational evaluations. Additionally, she conducts various civil court evaluations.
To view Dr. Piascik’s Curriculum Vitae, please click here or email her at tpiascik@granitestateforensic.com.
Richelle M. Barb, PsyD
Dr. Barb holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from George Mason University in Virginia, a master’s degree in Organizational Behavior and a doctorate in Forensic Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. Following her doctorate completion in 2005, she began her career with the California state hospital system, specializing in sex offender treatment. She then transferred to the state prison system where she spent several years providing individual and group treatment in both secure housing, special needs, and general population settings. She also had hospital admitting privileges at the prison hospital where inmates with severe mental illness were housed when in acute crisis. Eventually, Dr. Barb began to supervise mental health clinicians, while she focused on coordinating several programs within the prison, including the suicide prevention and response team, the developmental disability program, and coordinating transfers between the inpatient prison hospital and the state hospital. Throughout her years in the prison, she also actively participated as the mental health consultant on the negotiation team for the prison. In 2014, Dr. Barb began a new state position as a forensic evaluator and expert witness completing pre-parole evaluations on inmates with a history of mental health treatment and violent offenses. In addition to her full-time state job, she also spent many years supervising doctorate students working in a community mental health clinic (court-mandated Batterers' Intervention Program and various assessments) and teaching continuing education to other professionals. While a fulfilling California career, in March 2019, Dr. Barb decided to return to her home state of New Hampshire. She works full-time at the Office of the Forensic Examiner, where she conducts competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility evaluations and testifies as an expert witness throughout the criminal courts in New Hampshire.
To view Dr. Barb’s Curriculum Vitae please click here or email her at rbarb@granitestateforensic.com.
