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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Post separation, my focus shifted to the impacts of divorce on children. As I started to dig into that research, I found that children of high-conflict divorce and the maladaptive parenting frequently associated with high-conflict divorce leads to significant long-term negative outcomes 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, revealing that children who experience maladaptive parenting experience 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 maladaptive 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 maladaptive parent has on children. A model which not only heals the trauma they experience, but also makes them resilient to future traumas of maladaptive 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, unburdened by the scars of maladaptive parenting.