Services.

Evaluation and treatment for high-conflict between co-parents and within families of divorce. 

COURT & CUSTODY EVALUATION

I utilize a legal-psychological skill set to help individuals, couples, co-parents and families embroiled in the post-divorce and high-conflict custody process.

I have comprehensive training and experience evaluating and treating problems common to this realm, including alienation, reunification, co-parent patterns of litigiousness, child refusal of school & parenting plan, and risks for substance abuse, domestic violence, and psychological instability.

Court & Custody Services

I provide evaluation and treatment services for the full spectrum of high conflict and court involved problems, including (but not limited to):

• Custody Evaluations (otherwise known as category E guardian ad litem work) and Brief Focused Evaluations or BFA's (e.g. parenting plan modification)
• Parenting Capacity and Bonding Evaluations
• Adoption Capacity and Guardianship Evaluations
• Consultation Services for Specialty Issues: Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse & Allegations, and Management of Difficult Clients (for attorneys)
• Reunification Therapy
• Parent Coordination
• Mediation

 Learn to:

• Resolve Litigiousness
• Implement Healthy Parenting Plans
• Repair the Parent-Child Relationship
• Become Effective Co Parents
• Expand Parental Abilities
• Extinguish Involvement in Family and Probate Court

Training Qualifications

My post-doctoral training in Forensic Psychology, includes didactics, supervision, consultation, and research in the following specialty topics:

• Divorce Custody
• The Practice of Mediation
• Child Maltreatment and Juvenile Justice
• Domestic Abuse or Inter-partner Violence
• The Practice of Parent Coordination
• Issues of Parental Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
• Alienation and Reunification
• Guardianship

I have conducted over 6,000 hours of court-related evaluation and treatment, and demonstrated MA state eligibility in mediation and parent coordination services.​