(To protect confidentiality, names and details have been modified) When I met Daniel, he was 11-years-old and somewhat frail and emotionally young for his age....
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John & Charlotte: Why Can’t We Just Be Friends?
John and Charlotte came to see me voluntarily because they both realized that their conflict was out of control and hurting their three children. Unlike...
Olivia’s Story: You Had Me at Hello
(To protect confidentiality, names and details have been modified) She was conceived on a one-night-stand and her parents never married — not a great love...
Secret Sauce for the 20 Percent
High-conflict co-parents are defined as those who cannot fit into the roughly 30 percent who are cooperative (flexible with ease in communication and negotiation) or...
Give Something for Nothing!
It takes donations to provide sliding scale services to our/your clients. Here are two ways to give to us without spending a dime: AMAZON.com — instead of...
Let’s Just Call a Therapist
"...of course the therapist would have to say something to the court...wouldn't she?"
18 is the New 15
Teens are not equipped to handle too much responsibility. Recent research is telling us that 18 is the new 15, meaning that teens are maturing...
Modeling Resilience
Resilience is a dying word in our society, in my opinion. It’s the capacity to recover quickly from difficult circumstances or the ability of a...
Giving Teens a Choice
We all recognize that teenagers have lives outside of their parents – lives they would much rather cultivate than their relationship with their parents! But...
The Truth about Parental Alienation
The phrase parental alienation has become somewhat ubiquitous in custody cases these days, reminiscent of the path ADHD and bipolar disorder took years ago when...