David Liebert, Ed.D., LMHC
Psychotherapy
813-546-1628
David@DrDavidLiebert.com
Recent Publications
If your teenager lives with diabetes, you've learned to watch the numbers: the A1c, the time in range, the endless readings. But the numbers can only tell you how your child's body is coping. They say almost nothing about how your child is coping.
Beyond the Numbers is a warm, plain-language guide to the emotional side of diabetes that so often goes unseen. Grounded in current research and told through real stories from clinical practice, it helps parents recognize and respond to the mental-health struggles that so frequently ride alongside the disease — the exhaustion of diabetic distress, the search for identity and meaning, the trauma that can follow a frightening low, the attention and executive-function challenges so easily mistaken for irresponsibility, disordered eating and diabulimia, and the strain diabetes places on the whole family.
Most importantly, every chapter turns from what's wrong to what helps: practical, compassionate guidance for caring not just for your child's diabetes, but for your child.
New Publication
The demand for clinicians who can tell disease from incapacity, and persuasion from undue influence, has never been greater. As the population ages, courts increasingly need mental-health experts who can produce functional, data-anchored opinions—and defend them in a report, in deposition, and on the witness stand.
This revised and updated 2026 edition brings the science and the law current—DSM-5-TR, the December 2023 amendment to Rule 702, and recent advances in Alzheimer's diagnosis and treatment—and adds new material on cross-examination, retrospective evaluation, and cultural and linguistic factors in testing. Appendices supply sample case-study reports, an engagement letter, a review of psychometric assessments, and a structured capacity interview.