K and J Investigations and Case Management/NamingandTreating.com is an agency and website that serve individuals, children and families, businesses, the legal, education, and mental health communities. With advanced degrees in psychology, systems analysis, case management, clinical counseling and mediation, we offer research, practical guidance, effective consultations and assessments. Our specialties range from investigating complex family systems to comprehensive client centered case management. Combined, we have close to thirty years of applied experience in the field. Our mission is to find information and provide services that show clients a way forward with realistic hope.

Katy Gaddess, Co-founder and Director of Investigations, earned her M.A. in Clinical Psychology. She is a licensed Private Investigator and Marriage and Family Therapist who has over thirteen years of experience working with abused and neglected children and their families as a Social Worker for Child Protective Services and in Mental Health for Santa Barbara County and the city of San Francisco. Katy has testified as an expert witness in several Juvenile/Dependency and Family Court cases and managed hundreds of children and families in and through the social service, mental health, and legal systems. She currently focuses solely on investigating and consulting Court Appointed and Private Family Law cases. The roles of social Worker and clinician for a diverse range of challenging and complex cases has made Katy into a highly skilled lead investigator, clinician, case manger and consultant, inspiring her to start this Agency.

Jeff Gaddess, Co-founder and Director of Operations and Case Analysis, earned a M.A. in Organizational Management and a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology. He has over fifteen years of experience in behavioral and systems analysis in the residential treatment, mental health, legal and corporate sectors. During this time he worked as a manager, director, consultant, trainer and mediator. His current focus is as a consultant, investigator, case analyst, and mediator for Dependency and court appointed Family Attorneys and as a personal and professional consultant and life coach. His Ph.D. dissertation is an indepth analysis of how residential treatment and mental health/diagnostic psychiatry affect residents, caregivers and professionals. Jeff continues to seek answers and solutions for the challenges that so many individuals, children and families, and businesses confront through the work of this agency, his consulting, and research.