About Dr. Janette Rodriguez

About Dr. Janette Rodriguez

Dr. Janette Rodriguez is a licensed psychologist with extensive experience in psychological assessment, clinical consultation, treatment, training, program development, and leadership. Her work is grounded in integrity, curiosity, cultural responsiveness, and thoughtful analysis, with a focus on translating complex psychological information into clear, practical guidance. She is bilingual in English and Spanish. Her lived experience as part of the Puerto Rican diaspora, combined with her clinical training, ongoing professional learning, and attention to the systems and contexts that shape people’s lives, informs an approach grounded in humility, careful listening, and respect for each person’s distinct experience.

Education and Advanced Training

In addition to a master’s degree in Educational Psychology, Dr. Rodriguez earned a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. She completed an APA-accredited internship and an APA-accredited post-doctoral residency, reflecting advanced training in clinical psychology, psychological assessment, supervision, consultation, and evidence-informed care.

Clinical, Evaluation, and Consultation Experience

Dr. Rodriguez has worked across a wide range of clinical, healthcare, academic, rehabilitation, court-mandated, community, Veterans Affairs, and private practice settings. Across these roles, she has provided psychological treatment, conducted specialized evaluations, developed clinical programs, led research activities, directed training programs, and collaborated with interdisciplinary teams. These experiences have shaped her approach to assessment, consultation, treatment planning, and clinical decision-making, while deepening her understanding of how psychological concerns can affect functioning, relationships, documentation, access to care, work, learning, health, and decision-making across different life circumstances and systems.

Adults seeking clinical services may come to Dr. Rodriguez for help understanding concerns related to stress, anxiety, mood, sleep, burnout, attention, daily functioning, workplace stress, academic stress, disability-related needs, or uncertainty about what type of service is most appropriate. Her clinical style is warm, respectful, culturally responsive, and practical. She takes time to understand each person’s symptoms, strengths, goals, responsibilities, culture, language needs, medical history, family or community context, work or academic demands, and broader life circumstances. Through this individualized and culturally attuned approach, she helps clients feel understood, better understand their needs, clarify their options, and make informed decisions about care, evaluation, documentation, accommodations, or other clinically relevant next steps.

Dr. Rodriguez specializes in adult psychological evaluations, including evaluations related to ADHD, learning disabilities, diagnostic clarification, psychiatric disabilities, occupational functioning, workplace accommodations, FMLA, short-term disability or paid leave, FERS disability retirement, Veteran DBQ matters, high-stakes testing accommodations, disability-related documentation, independent psychological evaluations, second opinions, and other comprehensive assessments. Her evaluations are designed to answer specific referral questions, clarify the relationship between symptoms and functioning, and provide recommendations that are understandable, clinically sound, culturally informed, and tailored to the purpose of the evaluation.

Attorneys and legal professionals may seek Dr. Rodriguez’s consultation when psychological, occupational, disability-related, accommodation-related, leave-related, or documentation-related questions arise. Her work may involve independent psychological opinions, psychological record review, review of existing evaluations or reports, work product consultation, assessment consultation, or professional collaboration to help clarify the psychological issues relevant to a matter. She approaches this work with role clarity, ethical boundaries, objective analysis, attention to cultural and contextual factors, and clear communication.

Licensed mental health professionals may consult with Dr. Rodriguez when navigating complex clinical, documentation, occupational mental health, disability, leave, and accommodation-related questions. This may include consultation around FMLA paperwork, short-term disability documentation, ADA-related accommodations, return-to-work concerns, functional impairment, clinical rationale, boundaries, privacy, and professional decision-making. Her consultation style is collaborative, thoughtful, culturally responsive, and practical, with attention to clinical integrity, professional responsibility, and the real-world pressures clinicians face.

Organizations, healthcare teams, HR professionals, managers, and leadership groups may work with Dr. Rodriguez for consultation, training, and professional support related to workplace mental health, psychiatric disabilities, accommodations, leave, burnout, communication, team functioning, leadership, reintegration after mental health-related leave, and organizational wellbeing. Her background in program development, quality improvement, team leadership, interdisciplinary collaboration, and psychological consultation allows her to help organizations think through complex human and workplace concerns in ways that are clinically informed, culturally responsive, ethical, practical, and attentive to impact.

Leadership, Teaching, and Mentorship

In addition to her clinical and evaluation work, Dr. Rodriguez has held leadership roles focused on program development, strategic planning, team management, quality improvement, training, and mentorship. One of her major leadership accomplishments was establishing the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center at the Miami VA in 2013, a program serving Veterans with PTSD, mood disorders, psychosis, and other serious mental health concerns. The program earned national recognition, including a Mental Health Recovery Leadership Award in 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she also led the transition services from in-person care to virtual platforms to support continuity, access, and quality of care.

Training, teaching, and mentorship have been central to Dr. Rodriguez’s career. She has served as training director for a large psychology training program at a VA healthcare system, supervised and mentored more than 100 psychology trainees, including externs, interns, and residents, and has provided education and workshops for psychologists, social workers, counselors, psychiatrists, nurses, and other professionals. She also serves as faculty at Nova Southeastern University, where she supervises psychology doctoral candidates and has taught numerous psychology courses across various college/university settings. Her approach to training and mentorship emphasizes cultural responsiveness, ethical practice, professional development, and preparing clinicians to serve diverse communities with thoughtfulness, humility, and skill.

Professional Approach

Across her work, Dr. Rodriguez is especially skilled at making psychological concepts understandable without oversimplifying them. She brings together clinical expertise, systems knowledge, cultural attunement, ongoing learning, and practical judgment to help individuals, attorneys, mental health professionals, healthcare teams, and organizations make more informed decisions. Her goal is to provide work that is clinically sound, ethically grounded, respectful of complexity, attentive to context, and genuinely useful.

Areas of Experience

Dr. Rodriguez’s professional experience spans a wide range of clinical, healthcare, rehabilitation, academic, organizational, and consultation settings. This breadth allows her to approach each evaluation, consultation, training, or clinical question with a strong understanding of both individual needs and larger systems of care, including the cultural, linguistic, occupational, medical, educational, and community contexts that may shape a person’s experience.

Specialized Programs and Clinical Settings

Dr. Rodriguez has provided services, consultation, training, supervision, or leadership in settings that include:

University Office of Disability Services
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Programs
Employee Assistance Programs
Court-Mandated Treatment Programs
Community Mental Health
Sexual Health and Behavioral Medicine
Spinal Cord Injury Units
Organ Transplant Teams
Hospice and Palliative Care Teams
Med-Surg and Physical Rehabilitation
Neuropsychology Clinics
Veterans Affairs Healthcare Systems
PTSD Programs
Chronic Pain Clinics
Acute Inpatient Care
Residential Treatment Programs
Intensive Outpatient Programs
Private Practice Settings

Specialized Psychological Evaluations and Assessments

Dr. Rodriguez provides and has experience with a range of adult psychological evaluations, including:

Adult ADHD Evaluations
Learning Disability Evaluations
Differential Diagnosis Evaluations
Comprehensive Psychological Evaluations
Psychiatric Disability Evaluations
Functional Impairment Evaluations
Disability-Related Evaluations
Independent Psychological Evaluations
Second Opinions
Treatment Planning and Diagnostic Clarification
FMLA-Related Psychological Evaluations
Short-Term Disability and Paid Leave Evaluations
Workplace Accommodation Evaluations
High-Stakes Testing Accommodation Evaluations
FERS Disability Retirement Evaluations
Veteran DBQ- and Nexus-Related Psychological Evaluations
Culturally and Linguistically Informed Evaluations
Other Specialized Adult Psychological Assessments

Consultation, Training, and Professional Support

Dr. Rodriguez also provides consultation, training, and professional support in areas that include:

Clinical Consultation
Peer Consultation for Mental Health Professionals
Case Consultation
Program Development
Workplace Mental Health Consultation
Disability and Accommodation-Related Consultation
FMLA and Leave-Related Consultation
Return-to-Work and Reintegration Consultation
Consultation Regarding Psychological Documentation
Training for Healthcare and Mental Health Professionals
Organizational Training and Speaking
Interdisciplinary Team Consultation
Leadership Development
Quality Improvement
Strategic Planning
Team Development and Management
Culturally Responsive Practice
Culturally Informed Clinical and Organizational Consultation
Professional Mentorship and Supervision