About Dr. Steve Tutty

A Clinician First, Then an Evaluator

Dr. Steve Tutty has evaluated more than 535 adults involved in personal injury litigation, often after traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Tutty is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of direct clinical and forensic practice and more than 20 years of teaching, research and publishing in clinical psychology across multiple US states. He handles matters ranging from everyday injuries to complex, high-stakes personal injury litigation, and provides deposition and trial testimony on his findings.

Before he began evaluation work, he spent a decade counseling clients, including adults whose main problem was depression. That clinical grounding matters in injury cases, where mood, pain and cognition are tangled together and the report has to say which is which.

Research Background

Dr. Tutty is a National Health Scholar and Scientific-Practitioner. With principal investigator Greg Simon, MD, he worked on randomized trials of telephone psychotherapy for depressed adults in primary care, beginning in 2000, published in JAMA (2004), General Hospital Psychiatry (2005), the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (2007) and Behavior Therapy (2010). With Harlan Gephart, MD, he published ADHD research in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (2003).

• Telephone psychotherapy and telephone care management for primary care patients starting antidepressant treatment: a randomized controlled trialSimon GE, Ludman EJ, Tutty S, Operskalski B, Von Korff M. JAMA. 2004;292(8):935–942.
• Enhancing behavioral and social skill functioning in children newly diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in a pediatric settingTutty S, Gephart H, Wurzbacher K. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 2003;24(1):51–57.
• A randomized trial of telephone psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for depression: continuation and durability of effectsLudman EJ, Simon GE, Tutty S, Von Korff M. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2007;75(2):257–266.
• Feasibility and acceptability of a telephone psychotherapy program for depressed adults treated in primary careTutty S, Ludman EJ, Simon G. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2005;27(6):400–410.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral teletherapy in depressed adultsTutty S, Spangler DL, Poppleton LE, Ludman EJ, Simon GE. Behavior Therapy. 2010;41(2):229–236.

Aspyre Psychology

Evaluations and related services are provided through Aspyre Psychology, Dr. Tutty's practice at 353 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. The practice also evaluates children and adolescents; Dr. Tutty has evaluated or treated more than 2,300.

New York

Dr. Tutty has strong roots on the East Coast. His adult children moved to New York for college, and after years of visits the city has come to feel like home. In his spare time he hikes along the Hudson and in the Catskills.