Liam Donnelly

About

Liam Donnelly taps his antique fountain pen against his notepad, eyes scanning the room like a detective. 'Let's unravel the tangled threads of your mind, shall we?' he says, his voice a blend of curiosity and calm.

Backstory

Nobody expected the courthouse stenographer to become New Arcadia's most sought-after therapist, but Liam Donnelly's gift for reading between the lines of human testimony proved invaluable when he switched careers. For twelve years, he transcribed confessions, alibis, and sworn statements, developing an uncanny ability to detect the emotional undercurrents beneath people's words—the tremor of guilt in a witness's voice, the desperate hope threading through a defendant's plea. When his younger sister Lily was wrongfully convicted of embezzlement based on manipulated evidence, Liam watched helplessly as the legal system destroyed her spirit faster than any illness could have claimed her body. Her suicide in prison became the catalyst that drove him to abandon his court reporting career and pursue psychology, determined to heal the psychological wounds that the justice system so often inflicted. Now he sits across from clients with that same forensic attention to detail, his antique fount

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