Thomas Coghlan, PsyD

Ret. Det. (NYPD) / Psychologist

Owner, Blue Line Psychological Services

About

Thomas Coghlan is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, a retired NYPD Detective, and a past Visiting Law Enforcement Fellow at the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He operates a private practice in Great Neck, NY where he provides psychotherapy to police officers and their families, and performs evaluations for candidate psychological disqualification appeals.  As an independent contractor, he conducts both pre-employment evaluations and fitness-for-duty evaluations for various public safety agencies in New York and New Jersey.  He has been an Adjunct Professor at John Jay since 2014.  Dr. Coghlan received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Yeshiva University in 2010, his Master's Degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay CUNY in 2003, and his B.A. in Psychology from Queens College in 1993. He retired from the NYPD in 2018, after twenty-one years of service. From 2010 through 2018, Dr. Coghlan was assigned with responsibilities as a Psychologist in the NYPD. During that time, he performed psychological fitness-for-duty evaluations, pre-employment psychological evaluations, military deployment debriefings, disciplinary stress-triage debriefings, and trauma response. He served as liaison to the Department's peer support program. He is licensed in the states of New York and New Jersey. Dr. Coghlan is credentialed with the National Register of Health Service Psychologists.