Dr. Cartwright is the founder and CEO of Carewright Clinical Services which is a mental health organization providing mental health services throughout Texas and much of the United States. Additionally, Dr. Cartwright was appointed by Governor Abbott on November 1st, 2021, to serve a 6-year term as a professional board member for the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (TSBEP). He was also nominated by the TSBEP board members and voted unanimously to serve as the only current professional psychologist on the Behavioral Health Executive Council (BHEC) board for the state of Texas.
Dr. Cartwright is a Licensed Psychologist and Licensed Specialist in School Psychology. He completed his undergraduate study at Ohio University in the undergraduate psychology honors program and earned his master’s and Ph.D. in School Psychology from The Ohio State University. He completed his APA-accredited doctoral internship in the Fort Worth Independent School District. There he was trained in School-Based Multifactored Evaluations, IEP planning, group and individual therapy, crisis intervention, and consultation.
As a postdoctoral fellow in the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, he was trained as a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and Clinical Psychologist providing evaluations and therapy for children and adolescents. Dr. Cartwright provided therapy and a variety of clinical evaluations to children and adolescents with mood and anxiety-related disorders such as Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety, and School Refusal.
In addition, he was part of the Autism Clinic and conducted psychoeducational and psychological evaluations specializing in the diagnoses of Autism, Asperger’s Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Learning Disabilities, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Currently, Dr. Cartwright provides psychological and forensic evaluations along with psychotherapy to children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations. Dr. Cartwright specializes in the diagnoses of Traumatic Brain Injury, PTSD, Alzheimer’s Disease, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and other serious behavioral and/or mental health disorders.
He administers a variety of psychological assessments including intelligence/psychoeducational, neuropsychological, forensic, immigration/bilingual, and presurgical evaluations for spinal cord stimulator procedures and bariatric surgeries. He also helps with IEP planning and can provide a needed special education classification for children.
