Elizabeth Wheeler

Accepting select engagements

Vocational Expert & Certified Life Care Planner | LPC, LRC, CRC, CLCP

Expert Vocational & Life Care Planning Testimony — 6,000+ SSA Hearings Nationwide | LPC, LRC, CRC, CLCP

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Daubert-tested

Reports and depositions

Phone: 904) 686-1721

Rockville, Maryland

6,000+

SSA Hearings Testified

24+

Years of Professional Experience

Practice

Areas of Expertise

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Rehabilitation Counseling

02

Vocational Expert

03

Life Care Planning

04

Vocational Rehabilitation

05

Earning Capacity Analysis

06

Future Medical Cost Projections

07

Transferable Skills Analysis

08

Labor Market Research

09

Social Security Administration Hearings

10

Employment Discrimination

11

Wrongful Termination

12

Catastrophic Case Life Care Planning

Engagements

Representative Case Experience

SSA Vocational Expert Testimony — Nationwide Hearings

Appointed Vocational Expert with the SSA Adjudication and Review, providing testimony on occupational demands, transferable skills, and labor market availability in over 6,000 hearings across the United States.

Social Security Administration Office of Hearings OperationsAppointed Vocational Expert

Earning Capacity Analysis in Personal Injury & Wrongful Death Matters

Performed comprehensive vocational assessments to analyze pre- and post-injury earning capacity in cases involving catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, including transferable skills analysis and labor market research.

Testifying / Consulting Expert

Catastrophic Life Care Plans — Pediatric & Adult Cases

Developed detailed life care plans and future medical cost projections for catastrophic injury cases involving both pediatric and adult claimants, including medical reserve estimates and surgical cost projections.

Certified Life Care Planner

Life Care Plan Rebuttals & Past Medical Bill Reviews

Provided life care plan rebuttals and past medical bill reviews for litigation support, evaluating the reasonableness and necessity of claimed future and historical medical costs.

Consulting / Testifying Expert

Employment Discrimination & Wrongful Termination — Vocational Assessments

Conducted vocational assessments analyzing earning capacity loss and labor market availability in employment discrimination and wrongful termination matters.

Vocational Expert

Veterans Career Planning — VA Personalized Career Planning and Guidance Program (PCPG)

Provided military members with individualized career planning and guidance services through the Veterans Administration PCPG Program via The Consolidated Rehabilitation Group.

Contract Vocational Counselor

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Frequently Asked Questions

Ms. Wheeler is qualified to provide vocational and life care planning testimony in matters involving personal injury, wrongful death, divorce, employment discrimination, and wrongful termination. She also serves as an appointed Vocational Expert for the Social Security Administration.

Ms. Wheeler can prepare life care plans, life care plan rebuttals, future medical cost projections, past medical bill reviews, and comprehensive vocational assessments analyzing earning capacity. All reports are grounded in her credentials as a CRC, CLCP, LPC, and LRC.

Ms. Wheeler has testified in over 6,000 Social Security Administration hearings throughout the United States and is experienced providing both oral testimony and written expert reports in civil litigation matters.

Yes. Ms. Wheeler has specialized experience developing catastrophic life care plans for both pediatric and adult cases, including complex medical cost projections and long-term care needs assessments.

Yes. Ms. Wheeler offers consulting expert services in addition to testifying expert roles, providing litigation support, vocational analysis, and life care planning review on a confidential consulting basis.

Ms. Wheeler holds four active credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Rehabilitation Counselor (LRC), Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC), and Certified Life Care Planner (CLCP), along with a Master of Education from the University of New Orleans.

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With 6,000+ SSA hearings and over two decades of experience in life care planning and vocational rehabilitation, Ms. Wheeler is prepared to support your case from evaluation through testimony.