Robert Arlen Hotz has completed numerous psychological assessments, including several years of diagnostic practicum experience at the Landstrom Center and the New Mexico Center for Forensic Psychology. In 2024, Robert Arlen Hotz joined Dr. Erin Caskey at the Rush Neurobehavioral Center. His practicum has involved writing reports based on interviews, legal documents, and neurobehavioral assessments.
Moreover, Robert Arlen Hotz gained additional clinical experience as a crisis counselor at the Crisis Text Line and as a care advocate at Greenwich House. He contributed to the report “Auditory processing remains sensitive to environmental experience during adolescence in a rodent model,” which Nature Communications published.
A merit scholar and doctoral candidate at The Chicago School, Robert Arlen Hotz submitted his dissertation proposal, “The Mediating Role that ADHD Plays in the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Adult Crime,” to psychology department chair Shanavia Dansy, PhD, and has completed a psychoanalysis fellowship at the Chicago Center. He earned an undergraduate degree in psychology from New York University, a certification in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and a diploma in hypnotherapy from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute.