Corporate Leadership

Patrick Potter’s career is the culmination of more than three decades spent operating at the intersection of intelligence, behavioral health, and the justice system—domains that rarely converge but must be understood together when the stakes involve human crisis. His trajectory began under the mentorship of Robert Miller, who at the time served as a Supervisory Special Agent and later retired as the Assistant Director of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. Under Miller’s guidance, Mr. Potter learned the intelligence discipline, situational awareness, and operational precision that form the backbone of federal fieldwork. These early years set a standard of rigor and accountability that continues to define Potter & Co.’s operational philosophy.

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Mr. Potter’s intelligence foundation deepened during his service as a Department of Defense contractor at the GS-15 level from 2008–2014, working under the tutelage of Duanne Clarriage, one of the intelligence community’s most accomplished architects of covert operational methodology. Those years refined his mastery of surveillance, countermeasures, human-behavior profiling, and threat assessment—skills that later transitioned seamlessly into the behavioral health and crisis-management arena. Rather than separating his intelligence work from his clinical and judicial pursuits, Mr. Potter wove them together into a framework that allows him to anticipate risk with unusual accuracy and intervene at the earliest point of destabilization.

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Armed with a Master’s in Forensic Psychology and multiple certifications—including addiction counseling, forensic interviewing, and information security—Mr. Potter brings psychological depth to environments where behavior is unpredictable, volatile, and often life-threatening. This combination of academic understanding and real-world operational experience allows him to read behavioral patterns that others overlook, assess risk dynamically, and design interventions that reduce volatility before external systems even recognize a crisis is unfolding.

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Mr. Potter’s work inside America’s judicial systems further distinguishes his approach. As a recognized early pioneer of drug court development in Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1994, he helped introduce treatment-informed diversion long before it became nationally adopted. That experience has since expanded across New York, Florida, Texas, and the United Kingdom (London), where he continues to guide cases through mental health courts, diversionary frameworks, civil commitment processes, and guardianship actions. Families and institutions rely on his ability to translate complex behavioral crises into cohesive legal strategies—a skillset that bridges clinical insight, legal structure, and operational execution.

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Within Potter & Co., this multifaceted background manifests in a unified operational model rather than a fragmented service network. Licensed as a Private Investigator in California, Texas, Florida, and New York, Mr. Potter leads a multidisciplinary team of psychiatric nurse practitioners, trained companions, forensic consultants, transport specialists, and legal partners. The firm is capable of supporting every phase of a case: voluntary and involuntary interventions, interstate transport, psychiatric stabilization planning, and long-term system navigation. With operational relationships spanning major U.S. jurisdictions, and international partners in London, Potter & Co. is structured to respond rapidly and intelligently to crises that cross state lines and institutional boundaries.

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What ultimately distinguishes Mr. Potter is not the breadth of his training, but the volume and gravity of his field experience. He has conducted hundreds of high-acuity interventions involving psychosis, severe addiction, self-harm risk, violent decompensation, and high-net-worth family dynamics. In situations where most professionals are overwhelmed, Mr. Potter remains steady, methodical, and forward-looking—traits shaped by decades of operating in environments where clarity saves lives.

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For families, institutions, law firms, and corporations, this unusual fusion of intelligence methodology, behavioral science, and judicial fluency offers a level of problem-solving unavailable through traditional interventionists, clinicians, or investigators. Clients gain a strategist who understands human behavior under duress, an operator who can execute in unstable environments, and a leader capable of aligning medical, legal, and security systems toward a single outcome: safety, stability, and sustainable recovery.

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This is what makes Patrick Potter—and Potter & Co.—distinct. They do not simply respond to crises; they stabilize them with precision, discretion, and a multidimensional understanding of the systems in which those crises unfold.