Dr. Leite received her Psy.D. from the University of Hartford, having previously achieved a Masters from Boston University and a B.A. from Carleton College. She currently practices in the states of Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, and nationwide as a clinical and forensic psychologist and in the arena of threat assessment and management. She provides training and testimony nationwide.
Dr. Leite's practice has been devoted to forensic evaluations since 2003. In that time she has evaluated hundreds of people in risk, competency, custody, criminal and threat assessment cases. She is a licensed psychologist in the states of Connecticut, New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts, able to do telehealth through PsyPact, a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, and the Association of Threat Management Professionals, where she is the past president of the New England chapter. She is a founding member and past president of the Connecticut Psychological Association's Forensic Division and was awarded the 2014 President's award from the CPA.
Dr. Leite held pre-doctoral training positions at Long Lane School and the NW Center for Families and Children, completed her internship at The Village for Families and Children and her postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Living.
As a educator, Dr. Leite has been an adjunct professor at the University of Hartford’s doctoral program in psychology since 2015 where she has taught integrated psychological assessment, forensic psychology, and introduction to neuropsychology. She is a forensic field mentor at Columbia. She has taught ethics at the American International College as well as seminars for lawyers and Guardian Ad Leitems (GALs) through CT's GAL Academy. She takes training very seriously. She has led seminars at the Connecticut Psychological Association's annual conference (2012, 2014, 2107) and the FBI's TarGet and InfraGard programs (2014, 2015). She has spoken numerous times to the Connecticut Psychological Association’s Forensic Division as part of the State of the Science training series and to the New England, Northwest, and D.C. chapters of ATAP as well as at the Joint Threat Assessment Training in 2018, ATAP’s national Virtual Threat Assessment Conference in 2020, and the APATAP Conference in 2021. She has led full day training on threat assessment up and down the East Coast, including a series for CREC. In 2022 she spoke often, including at hospitals, companies, schools, ATAP’s Winter Conference, ATAP’s Threat Management Conference, and keynoted IAHSS’s conference. In 2023 she will be speaking at conferences across the United States and in Europe on topics related to threat assessment and management including AETAP in Germany, ATAP’s TMC, the Koshka foundation, the VA DCJS K-12 conference, the Nebraska Threat Assessment Conference, The Idaho Threat Assessment Conference, and for IAHSS.