Mentoring & Training
for Professionals
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ― William Butler Yeats
Gather Up Skills
Fortify with Love
Guide Purposefully

Mentoring for Professionals
Please join Karen for Mentoring Groups (90-minutes of case consultation) and/or Practicum Intensives (six hours of Open Space-style collaboration) offered on a regular schedule. Open to all attorneys, mediators/neutrals, coaches and mental health professionals. Common ground: We’re all working with families facing separation, divorce, parents who struggle with kiddos or co-parenting disputes, and those emerging into stepfamily. Colleagues come together to unpack difficult cases, discuss practice tips, share resources, build skills and strengthen competence in a wide range of approaches to typical and complex problems. Karen guides, challenges and facilitates spirited conversations offering creative/sound approaches to tough situations. Dedicated time with trusted colleagues refreshes the spirit and expands your network! Find out more – contact Karen.
If you would like a one-on-one case consultation: Stuck on how to help parents design a parenting-time schedule? Want to explore options on how to approach a complex client situation? Stuck in impasse with a complicated mediation? Email – let’s schedule.
If you’re seeking a non-evaluative professional view / “second opinion” in the areas of child development, family restructuring, parenting-time schedules and so forth on a case, talk with Karen.
Training for Professionals
Karen will invigorate your group’s skill-building/continuing education experiences. Ask her about co-creating a uniquely designed training. Her style includes experiential learning, demonstration, case exploration, and courageous dialogue. Along with her you’ll confront past adversarial or legally-driven solutions to family problems with creative, future-focused approaches for ushering clients and families into safer and more secure futures.
Karen’s Signature Day-Long Trainings
Contact Karen for the current schedule.
- The Essentials of Co-Parent Coaching
- The Essentials of Stepfamily Coaching
- Advanced Parenting Plan Mediation: With a Focus on Children under Five and over Fifteen Years
- Complex Parenting Plan Solutions: Transitioning Families with Complex Health and Safety Issues
Interest in having your group sponsor a training? Let’s talk!


Guest Lectures/Interviews/Podcasts
Contact Karen – she loves to share with podcasters and journalists. She is available to bring her teaching into the classroom – to introduce the psycho-social aspects of “the family” into family law/mediation course work – whether that be something such as designing developmentally appropriate parenting plans or envisioning creative solutions to complex family problems. If you’d like a guest presenter, let Karen know.