1. THE ORDINARY WORLD ⚜️ I didn’t set out to specialize in high-conflict family systems. I started out naïve—like many do—believing that if you showed up with truth, credentials, and care, the system would hold.
12/01/20122. THE CALL TO ADVENTURE ⚜️ Disruption: Divorce. Custody. Court. The call isn’t noble—it’s disruptive. Divorce. Custody. Court. A sense that something essential is being misread or erased.
01/08/20133. REFUSAL OF THE CALL ⚜️ System disbelief, waiting to be understood. But systems don’t always recognize truth in real time. Instead, you enter a place where silence has a language. Where misinterpretation hardens into record. And procedure replaces presence. Like every Hero’s Journey, I resisted at first. I hoped someone else would step in. I waited to be understood.
12/01/20144. CROSSING THE THRESHOLD ⚜️ Entering the underworld. That’s where my journey began. Not with ambition—but with rupture. The courtroom became the underworld. Custody calendars replaced calendars of childhood. And what was once personal became procedural.
11/30/20155. TESTS, ALLIES, AND ENEMIES ⚜️ Losing everything, becoming observant, learning through complexity. The middle of the journey is rarely glamorous. It’s not certification—it’s initiation. I lost everything that once defined me: career, income, reputation. Instead, I was forced to evolve a new kind of intelligence. One that could hear meaning beneath distortion. One that could decode what systems don’t yet know how to name.
12/01/20166. APPROACH TO THE INNERMOST CAVE ⚜️ Deep intuitive learning and seeing what the system cannot. It wasn’t ideology that kept me upright. It was training. Somatic recall. Pattern literacy. And the ability to read subtle structure—especially in children—when words fall short. Because when families fracture, children don’t explain. They signal. Through rhythm, placement, play, withdrawal, sleep. That’s the language I understand.
12/01/20177. THE ORDEAL ⚜️ Becoming fluent in silence and signal under fire. I’ve testified in court over 50 times. I’ve reviewed over 800 court dockets. I’ve written reports. Held the witness chair. Withstood cross-examination. I’ve read and responded to GAL findings, risk assessments, custody evaluations. I’ve used structured tools—Wechsler, BASC, PAS, MMPI, Achenbach, PSI—and translated them into courtroom language. Not just clinically accurate—but legally sound. This isn’t performance. Its presence. And pattern recognition. Forged not only in classrooms—but in courtrooms, family rooms, detention centers, and IEP teams.
12/01/20188. THE REWARD (SEIZING THE SWORD) ⚜️ Claiming your integrated identity—licensed and lived. Between 2012 and 2025, I rebuilt. I rebuilt through study, training, and structural reorientation. I took coursework in Child and Family Forensic Evaluation. I completed Custody Evaluation and Mediation certifications. I studied trauma, school law, reflective practice, and systems theory. I became a Licensed Educational Psychologist and met the standards of Standing Orders like Massachusetts Standing Order 1-17 for court-involved evaluators.
12/01/20199. THE ROAD BACK ⚜️ Returning to help others navigate. I now support parents, educators, and professionals navigating rupture, misinterpretation, or systems that can’t yet see clearly. I offer structure, not sides. Clarity, not chaos.
12/01/202010. RESURRECTION ⚜️ No longer proving—just walking in coherence. I help you understand what’s happening—legally, psychologically, structurally—so you can move forward with integrity. Because some stories aren’t written in the record. They’re carried in the nervous system. And they require someone who’s still walking—to walk beside you.
12/01/202111. RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR ⚜️ Offering the thread back to others. The Hero doesn’t return with a trophy. She returns with a thread—something she can offer others still walking. Whether you show up as a parent, educator, advocate, or individual searching for clarity— I meet you there. And help you keep walking.
12/01/202212. INTEGRATION ⚜️ Still walking. Now offering. These years aren’t about surviving the storm—they’re about becoming the ground it lands on. I’m now building structures—quiet ones—that carry what I learned into something others can hold. A field. A thread. A compass. A practice. This is not a return to normal. It’s a return to something real.
12/01/2023