Mark Veldkamp is a behavioral threat assessment professional and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with over two decades of experience helping organizations identify risk, respond to crisis, and recover from trauma. He spent eight years building and leading one of the first Director level behavioral threat management programs in California, a model others in the field have looked to as a benchmark. He has presented at the Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals (AETAP) in Paris and maintains deep professional relationships with leading forensic psychologists and law enforcement professionals across the country and abroad.
Behavioral Threat Assessment & Crisis Consulting
Mark works with organizations across corporate, legal, healthcare, and higher education environments to identify behavioral risk, manage persons of concern, and build the systems and culture to respond effectively to crisis. His work spans threat assessment consultation, crisis response planning, critical incident management, training, and executive advisory — before, during, and after a critical incident occurs.
Building Programs That Last
As Director of the Behavioral Threat Management Team at UCLA, Mark created and led the multidisciplinary Consultation & Response Team from the ground up, developing communication strategies to educate the community on identifying and responding to distressed individuals. He established protocols, built partnerships across mental health services, law enforcement, and healthcare systems, and transformed how the organization identified risk, mobilized resources, and provided strategic oversight.
Clinical Practice
In addition to his consulting work, Mark maintains a private clinical practice working with high achieving individuals, professionals in high-stress environments, and athletes navigating the demands of performing at a high level.