Albert R. Gibbs, Ph.D.

If you are considering paying Dr. Gibbs so that you might get more custody time, save your $ 20,000.00! He is there to write a misspelled and inaccurate psychological report that says more about his own hostility and frustrations than about what you are like as a person and a parent.
This man will label both you and your «co-​parent» as inadequate people with cluster B personality disorders, even if you have lived a life of discipline and self-​restraint.
And speaking of a life of discipline and self-​restraint, what is someone who weights 400 pounds doing teaching us parenting skills? He gives classes on parenting, which requires tremendous self-​control, something Dr. Gibbs obviously does not possess.
I told Dr. Gibbs that I wanted to leave my husband mostly because he had secret gay «hook-​ups», and I was afraid of contracting HIV. But that mainly I didn’t want to stay in a marriage that was false or dishonest in any way. Oh, yeah, and the domestic violence when I was pregnant with our daughter and trying to get him to leave the house…
But Dr. Gibbs tried to convince me that homosexual behavior is psychologically healthy and normal. Well, I’m not going to argue about that, my husband can do what he wants, but having sex with a bisexual or gay man is potentially very dangerous. The scientists at the Centers for Disease Control are not lying about the rate of infection of wives and girlfriends of gay/​bisexual men. My own physical health is more important than my co-parent’s psychological needs to have gay sex. But Dr. Gibbs was more focused on my alleged homophobia than anything that was happening in reality, such as the fact that I don’t really mind that my husband is gay. Okay, if he’s not cut out to be a card carrying heterosexual, no problem. I’m glad I found the reason for so many discordant notes in our relationship, and I was happy to avail myself of a much-​needed divorce.
Despite even my friends testifying that my embittered ex threatened to kick me in the stomach during my pregnancy, nothing my ex had done was enough to convince Dr. Gibbs that supervised visits with our newborn daughter would be best. He would not even speak with my friends and relatives. It was all about the «romance» of the gay dad.
This all happened years ago, but in light of the recent revelation of Charlie Sheen being HIV+, I couldn’t stand by the wayside and fail to let other vulnerable parents know what Dr. Gibbs is all about. To summarize, Dr. Gibbs is all about money. You think you are hiring him to act in the best interests of your children, but everything he writes in his report is to «muddy the waters» so that you will have to pay him more for court testimony, additional interviews, and referrals to his buddies who are also in the psychological business.
I did get supervised visits for my daughter initially, but in the end the custody has turned out to be ⁵⁰⁄₅₀. And the report made me look like I was a very damaged human being. I am ashamed to read it and see how poorly Dr. Gibbs thought about me. Growing up with a schizophrenic mother was very painful, but I have managed my life admirably. I am a good mother, and a resourceful, professional person. But it will never be enough to get more than ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ custody, even if your ex is abusive and dangerous. To Dr. Gibbs, you are as big of a loser as the person you married. Watch his nostrils flare and his lips curl with contempt for YOU as you tell him your grave concerns about your co-​parent.
Best wishes to you and your children. And do not hire this man!

He charged $ 25,000 for a 730 evaluation that was filled with errors. He talked to the severely alienated children who are adults and aligned with mother. He had to be deposed where he said, «I believed them,» the victim children of alienation! Then he went on to INFER that I made «alienating comments and had elements of negative gatekeeping» to frame me, the parent targeted with obvious hate & vitriol of the unempathic alienated kids! He falsely added negative comments about me by my therapist who was appalled at that lie. Ex wife is Borderline narcissitc without any parenting skills. Gibbs charged $ 25,000 and stated he could not make a conclusion! Paid for a conclusion and got nothing but mistakes. He was a complete joke. I ended up with custody of both our young kids after a multi day hearing costing an additional $ 200,000, and had to put expert witnesses on the case to do forensic analysis and conclude mother is the Alienator. Three 730 evaluators did the forensic and got same conclusion. Gibbs should have just called expert Baker during the evaluation or any other expert on alienation before wrongly believing negative allegations then charging the parent victim. Instead he wanted to keep all the evaluation money and claim he is the expert in everything. Hey Gibbs: all experts and colleagues stated Parent Alienation is determined by the children’s relationship (or severed relationships) with their parent/​s NOT by inferring the parents might have said things to get the kids on their sides. BOZO the clown would have done a better job.
DO NOT use this man!

This man is a disgrace to his profession and the courts. I am amazed he hasn’t been disbarred yet. (Hopefully soon). If you have lots of money and plan on destroying innocent people, Dr. Gubbs is the man for you. If you have any morals or ethics, stay away. I cannot speak low enough to describe the harm to adults and children he has caused. Read the other reviews, they are not exaggerating.
To anyone who has used him; please file charges with the State of California

Dr. Gibbs is terrible. He pulled the same thing with money check with us.
He timed the evaluation to end on the first day of school beginning and yet gave us no warning about time frame. It took him 6 months.
He did not divulge attorney for other side threw him lots of business and that is why he was picked. That attorney has been sanction and now out of business.
Bizarre stuff. The judge immediately threw out his ideas.
I have suffered from a condition where I cannot see 3D images (like movies). My eyes do not focus at the same time. I have had probably 100 doctors visits in my life dealing with this and glasses since I was 2 year’s old.
He gave me lots of test and one that was a 3D test that determines personality.
After I got home it dawned on me SO I sent a letter to him explaining the condition and how I could not see these 3D images in picture test.
He PUT in the report I must have hired a professional coach AS I could not understand those concepts and point that problem out to him.
My parents were college educated and I have 4 degrees and 1 from USC. If I don’t understand my eyes, who does?
He’s a joke and very dangerous.
Very costly for incompetence.

Dr. Gibbs wrote up a custody evaluation for our family and charged us $ 20,000.00. And I paid it. I was desperate for a variety of reasons, most notably my children’s safety.
When the report was finished, Gibbs’ assistant, Shirley, told me to meet Gibbs directly in person to give him the final check for the report, because, «Girrrl, I got some good new for you! You gonna be so happy with this report!»
I asked her if I could just send out the check by mail in a day or so, but Shirley insisted that I pick it up that day, with a check in hand for Gibbs. She said that the report had such good news for my children and that I would be so happy with it, and that I needed it to resolve our custody dispute ASAP.
So, I went and gave Gibbs his last check. He was waiting in the parking lot of his building, next to an expensive, late model BMW. He looked disheveled. The last buttons of his shirt were undone and his huge stomach spilled over the waistband of his rumpled khakis.
Shirley then e-​mailed me a poorly-​spelled, vague report that was incorrect in many parts. I read through it quickly when I got back to my office. How carefully could Gibbs have evaluated our family’s situation if he couldn’t even spell our last name correctly?
I immediately called Shirley re: this glaring error. She told me, «Well, that report be good news for you, you better be glad. You know, Dr. Gibbs could’ve recommended that you lose your children.» She hung up and me and would not answer further phone calls.
It is heinous that Shirley and Gibbs took my $ 20,000.00, but would not take my phone calls. Perhaps worse is the direct or implied threat by Shirley that I’d better agree with every assertion or demand of the evaluator or else lose custody as Dr. Gibbs, as an evaluator, determines who is going to «win» the custody of our children.
Both parents and judges should keep in mind that the evaluators have their own problems and biases, even when court-​appointed.
I am a Mormon, and Gibbs, actually asked me if I believed that the Book of Mormon was an actual historical document. I knew that I was in trouble. I challenge the report for this reason only – my religious beliefs should have no bearing on my fitness as a parent.
Also, I pointed out to Gibbs that my husband didn’t apply sunscreen to my children, who are very fair-​skinned. I told him of my grave concerns since my brother had almost died from Stage IV skin cancer. Yet the report reflected none of my concerns, but implied instead that I found their tans and sunburns aesthetically displeasing.
Gibbs was upset that I saw no sexual imagery in the Rorschach cards.
He also told me that my lack of interest in re-​marriage was due to my failure to relate correctly to people. He also said that having been date raped as a teenager while a student at UCLA was due to my failure to connect with people. I had thought I was the victim of a violent crime. Maybe I was wrong, because Gibbs said it was my fault. And he actually wrote this in the report.
He also insisted that I see «Brokeback Mountain,» telling me that my husband was a homosexual. I told him that I was uninterested in that movie, but he said again that I needed to see it. Sorry, but I don’t need to see anything. I need a divorce.
What is more, is that money is the factor hiding in plain sight. Gibbs recommended that I see a friend of his, a family therapist who charges $ 400.00 per hour, since I am a deficient parent. He determined that I have failed my children in part, by not amusing them during the 1 ½ hours he spent at our home. To assert that he can determine how good of a parent I am after observing us in an artificial situation for such a short amount of time is to be incredibly naïve.
Regarding the $ 400.00 per hour therapist, I am very wary of accepting a recommendation of a close friend or colleague of Gibbs – obviously these people are exploiting their position of power. They know that I am afraid for my children, so they «insist» that I see someone very expensive within their inner circle, lest I lose «favor» with Gibbs and his all-​important recomendations.
I did contact that family therapist, and when I told her what happened she couldn’t distance herself from Gibbs fast enough. But she admitted that family law «psychology» was a racket of sorts. She suggested that I see another therapist, not connected to Gibbs.
Perhaps most strikingly, Gibbs failed to mention in the report that my children do love me, and that my oldest boys spontaneously came up to me and kissed me during the home evaluation. And I love my children – I am a very devoted mother. My children have my true love and concern if nothing else.
My husband was found to be at high risk for abusing the children (and for abusing me) but Gibbs recommended ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ custody anyway.
$ 20,000.00 that could have been better put to my children’s future care & education.