Dr. Herweck is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Her past experience includes county mental health with court dependent children, as well as work as a therapist at Phoenix House, a residential drug rehab, and the California School for the Deaf.

She has nearly ten years of experience with CPS. She has worked emergency response and on call cases. She completed roughly 1000 forensic interviews of children and adults with developmental disabilities. She also had the opportunity to be a supervisor in the Voluntary Family Services Program and in the Relative Assessment Unit.

She left County work in 2006 to pursue work as an EC 730 child custody evaluator. Currently, she is writing and editing, teaching, and working as a Field Experience Supervisor for the University of Phoenix. She has taught for the Academy since 2000. She teaches several core classes, including Crisis Intervention and Investigation Skills, Interviewing and CWS, and Risk and Safety Assessment, among others. She also teaches a couple of advanced courses- Interviewing Young Children and Working with the Deaf.