ABOUT

My journey started when my marriage of 8 years abruptly ended, leaving me as a single mom of a 5-year-old little girl.

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I have always worked in the realm of how to best optimize outcomes for children. Whether it be with preschoolers with developmental delays or with children coming from less than ideal home environments. 

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Now, my focus shifted to the impacts of divorce on children. As I started to dig into that research, I became increasingly intrigued by the world of high-conflict divorce and the coercive parenting frequently associated with high-conflict divorce, along with the significant long-term negative outcomes it creates for these children. 

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Outcomes such as anxiety, depression, self-harm, risky behaviors, mental and physical health challenges, and even suicide.

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The research painted a bleak picture for these children, revealing that those who experience coercive parenting are left with relational and developmental trauma, and face desolate outcomes. 

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Further complicating the situation for protective parents, was a considerable lack of resources on how best to support these children, as well as a lack of awareness within the family law systems around the impacts of high-conflict divorce and coercive parenting on children.

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That's when I decided to combine my educational, professional and lived experience, to develop a model that limits the negative impacts that having a coercive parent has on children. A model which not only heals the trauma they experience, but also makes them resilient to future traumas of coercive parenting. 

It has become my mission to educate professionals who are meant to protect these children, and support parents in parenting differently - in a way that protects the children regardless of what the system is or isn't doing for them.

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Join me in creating a future where kids have the opportunity to THRIVE, and can grow into an emotionally and psychologically healthy generation, and have the opportunity to reach their full potential, unburdened by the scars of coercive parenting.