Gregory K. Moffatt, Ph.D., LPC, CPCS is a counselor,
college professor, and public speaker. Dr. Moffatt has been in private clinical
practice for thirty-five years. During that time he has worked with
individuals, families, couples, adolescents, and children. He has specialized
with children ages 3-10 and he has worked with infants and babies, providing
developmental analyses and consultation with parents and organizations that
deal with children.
Dr.
Moffatt has written, lectured and consulted in the area of violent behavior
since 1993. For over a decade he was a regular lecturer at the FBI
National Academy in Quantico, Virginia and he has consulted with Delta
Airlines, U.S. Airways, Westinghouse Corporation, Johns
Manville, law enforcement agencies, and numerous other businesses and
schools. He has assisted law enforcement in the investigation of unsolved
homicide cases and specializes in the assessment and prevention of homicidal
and violent behavior. He served as an invited participant on the Atlanta
Youth Homicide Initiative for Beverly Harvard, Chief of Police,
Atlanta, Georgia in 1999. He was a regular consultant and profiler with
the Atlanta Cold Case Squad for more than 10 years.
Dr.
Moffatt has published dozens of articles, including a regular column for Counseling
Today and a newspaper column for "The Citizen," a
newspaper distributed in Fayette County, Georgia. Dr. Moffatt is the author of
numerous books on aggression and violence. Blind-Sided: Homicide
Where it is Least Expected (Praeger Publishing, 2000) and A
Violent Heart (Praeger Publishing, 2002) both address violent
behavior, the development of aggression, homicide, and homicidal profiling.
His
book entitled Wounded Innocents and Fallen Angels (Praeger
Publishing, 2003) addresses child abuse, sexual abuse, child abduction and
child neglect. It also addresses aggression committed by children - homicide,
sexual assault, vandalism/arson, and parricide. A parenting book entitled A
Parent's Journey: Parenting From Conception Through Adolescence (Praeger,
2003) is available. He has also written Hancuffed: A Friendship Of
Endurance (Publish America, 2008) and Stone Cold Souls:
History's Most Vicious Killers (Praeger, 2008). Survivors,
(Greenwood, 2010), an inspiring description of surviving trauma, was released
in 2010.
Dr.
Moffatt has addressed hundreds of audiences including schools, hospitals, law
enforcement, businesses, physicians, therapists, psychologists, social workers,
and churches on a wide variety of topics ranging from parenting to homicide
investigation using a combination of humor, real-life stories, and practical
applications. He has appeared on syndicated radio programs such as "American
Crime Line" in Chicago and "Shrink Rap" based in
Victoria, British Columbia. Dr. Moffatt has also appeared as a guest expert on
news programs in Chattanooga, Tennessee and on the FOX Network, ABC,
NBC, and CBS in Atlanta, America's Most Wanted,
and he has served as an expert consultant to ABC and the Discovery
Channel for specials they have produced on mental health and violence
issues. He was also a personal
consultant to Tyler Perry for the movie Alex Cross.
In
addition to work in the United States, Dr. Moffatt has addressed audiences
around the world including venues such as India, the Philippines, Panama, St.
Vincent, Mexico, Peru, and Chile.
He
holds an M.A. in counseling and a Ph.D. from Georgia State University in
educational psychology. He is professor of psychology at Point
University where he has served for over twenty years and he taught as
a part-time instructor at Georgia State University and Psychological Studies
Institute. He is licensed in the state of Georgia as a professional counselor.
Dr. Moffatt is a former Diplomate with the American College of Forensic
Examiners, a member of both the Georgia Association for Play
Therapy, the International Association for Play Therapy, the American
Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and he is Nationally
Board Certified in Traumatic Stress specializing in child abuse.
Dr. Moffatt is the editor of the Georgia Journal of Professional Counseling and in
February 2022, Dr. Moffatt was appointed by Governor Kemp to the Georgia
Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and
Family Therapists.
Most
notable in Dr. Moffatt's publications is the development of a risk assessment
checklist. In its development, Dr. Moffatt examined hundreds of homicide cases,
including domestic homicides, workplace homicides, school shootings, spree,
serial homicides, and sexual homicide. Through reviews of
these cases and examination of the perpetrators involved, he has established
criteria for assessing the likelihood for violence in individuals as well as
ways to prevent violence in the workplace, at school, and at home. These
criteria are used by businesses and schools around the world.