Practice Philosophy:

As a member of one of the "helping professions" for almost forty years, my goal has always been to reduce suffering and enhance productive, healthy living in my clients and their families. The vast majority of those years have been invested in serving individuals involved in a divorce. I founded The Divorce Recovery and Family Resources Center, P.C. in 1983 to provide counseling and psycho-educational programs for such individuals. To date, more than 4.000 people have participated in our programs.

Having witnessed the excruciating pain associated with divorce, and having experienced divorce myself, my efforts have been aimed at ameliorating the emotional and relational impact that comes in the process of, and in the wake of divorce. I have often seen that the typical adversarial divorce actually made matters much worse between couples with negative, long-term repercussions on them, their children, extended families and even friends.

Until the advent of collaborative divorce, my role had been limited to dealing with the emotional by-products of a litigated divorce. Now, however, I have the opportunity to play an active role in a divorce process whose goal is to minimize the negative impact of divorce on the participants, their families and their post-divorce relationship. Being a member of an interdisciplinary team, along with financial professionals and the evolving breed of compassionate, collaborative attorneys, I can directly contribute to the rebuilding of "life after divorce" during the divorce event itself.

By facilitating communication between the participants, aiding in identifying their interests, helping to manage the oft-times inevitable emotional reactions that occur and encouraging all the participants to maintain a focus on arriving at a mutually acceptable outcome, I believe I'm now more effectively achieving my professional goals of reducing suffering and enhancing productive, healthy lifestyles for clients and their families.

Education and Training:

• 2005, 2006 Interdisciplinary Training


• 2006 Advanced Training: Brumley


• 2006 Spring Retreat


• 1983 Divorce Mediation: Haynes

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