Weston Lange, PsyD, LCSW is the Family Court Services Director for the Superior Court of California in Stanislaus County where he provides oversight and training of child custody recommending counseling and court investigations for the Family Law Division. He has operated a private practice for the past twenty years in which he receives court appointments for child custody evaluations, as well as specializing in therapies for post-separation issues including coparenting, family conflict and child adjustment.

Dr. Lange completed a doctoral project focused on the study of triadic relationships in families who have experienced dissolved parental unions. He has developed a unique approach to conducting child custody evaluations which incorporates current research on family systems.

His CV can be found here

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• Parent-Focused Forensic Psychological Evaluations
• Understanding Suicide Series Bundle
• Understanding Suicide II: Evidence Based Practices for Intervention, Risk Management, Cultural Competence, Resources and Strategies to Prevent Vicarious Trauma
• Understanding Suicide I: Major Theories, Warning Signs, and Assessments
• Feeder Memories, Age Estimates and the Somatic Bridge: Best Practices to Improve EMDR Therapy
• Finding Solid Ground by Stabilizing Prior to Doing EMDR with Complex Dissociative Clients: An Interview with Dr Bethany Brand
• IPV and CCEs/PPEs - Bundle
• Assessing Risk of Child Abuse and Domestic Violence in Child Custody Evaluations (CCEs/PPEs)
• Behind the Screens: Understanding the Use of Cybercrime in Domestic Violence Implications for Child Custody Evaluations and Parenting Plan Development
• Understanding the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) on Parenting Plan Evaluations
• Autism and EMDR Bundle
• Identifying Weakness in your PPE and Process
• Accommodating Autism with Early Trauma EMDR: The Challenges of Alexithymia, Dissociation and the Window of Tolerance
• Yoga Therapy in EMDR: Course Bundle
• Moral Injury Trauma: The Many Faces of Alienation from Spirit and Self
• Updated Custody Evaluations/Parenting Plan Evaluations 101: Standards, Guidelines and Rules
• Integrating Yoga Therapy Techniques in EMDR: Meditation
• Integrating Yoga Therapy Techniques in EMDR: Somatics and Breathwork
• The Importance of Co-Parenting in Custody Evaluations
• Effective EMDR Interventions for Children and Families Dealing with Divorce: A Clinical Approach
• Custody Evaluations 101 Series Bundle
• Shared Parenting: A Lens to Observe
• Considerations of Culture and Religion for the Child Custody Evaluator
• Minimizing Bias and Premature Closure: A Rubric for the Evaluation and Adjudication of Resist/Refuse Dynamics
• Parenting Plan Evaluations involving Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth: Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives
• 2024 Annual CCE Update
• 2024 Annual IPV Update
• A Conversation with Lt Ken Gardner: EMDR and Recidivism
• 2024 Edition: Did I Lock the Door? Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with EMDR Therapy Informed by Exposure & Response Prevention and Ego State Therapy
• Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma
• Benefits and Risks of the Intensive Format: Taking Care Ethically
• When Is it Autism and When is it Trauma and Dissociation?: An Interview with Autism Researcher Katherine Reuben by Sandra Paulsen
• Strategies for Adopting EMDR therapy in the Schools for Tots to Teens
• Advance Orientation (AO) Improves Efficacy, Efficiency, and Participant Satisfaction: Preparing Parents for Parenting Plan Evaluations
• Gray Divorce: Navigating Relationships as Clients Age
• Refuting the 5 Factor Model: Best Practice Requires a Systemic Approach to PCCP (Parent-Child Contact Problems)
• EMDR Bridging the Gap: From Protocol to Practice Part 2: Phases 3 through 7
• 2023 IPV Update
• Looking Through the Eyes of High Functioning Autism: Accommodating NeuroBeautiful Brains with EMDR
• Quality Evaluations in the Context of Coercive Control
• Parenting Plan Evaluations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The Theory and Practice of the Flash Technique
• Neuroaffective Embodied Self-Therapy (N.E.S.T.): Integrating EMDR, Ego State and Somatic Therapies to Address Complex Cases Including Early Trauma and Neglect (Paulsen)
• EMDR Bridging the Gap: From Protocol to Practice Part 1: Phases 1-2
• A conversation between Sandra Paulsen and Sherri Paulson: Considerations for EMDR therapy with individuals on the autism spectrum.
• Assessing Families with Child and Adolescent Presenting Problems
• N.E.S.T Training Bundle
• EMDR Therapy and Metaphors: Treating Insomnia
• NEST: Module 9 - Hearing the Untold Unheard Story of Developmental Trauma and Unmet Needs to Dismantle the Symptom Shrine
• Treatment of Attachment Trauma and the Dissociative Sequelae in Clients of All Ages: A Developmentally Grounded Approach to Case Conceptualization with EMDR Psychotherapy
• NEST: How the Untold Unheard Story Tells Itself Nonverbally: Temporally Integrating Unconscious and Implicit Very Early Trauma
• EMDR Therapy Reverse Protocol
• NEST: When There Are No Words - Still and Again: The Basic Procedure for Temporal Integration from the Beginning of Life
• HAUNTED: EMDR for First Responders and Professionals in the Trenches
• NEST: Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation Revisited: Assembling the Patchwork Quilt through Fractionated Processing
• NEST: S is for the Self-System Looking Through the Eyes: Using Ego State Therapy to Shift Loyalty from Aggressor to Self and more
• NEST: E. is for Embodiment: Resolving Somatic Dissociation to Enable an Embodied Self
• NEST: N is for Neuroaffective: Working Under the Floorboards by Resetting the Affective Circuits and Other Interruptive Methods and Devices
• NEST: Interview, Formulation, and Plan
• Dynamics, not diagnoses: Understanding and responding to the needs of the polarized child
• Custody Evaluations 101: Tying it All Together, Covid-19 & Custody Evaluations, How to Get Your First Reports Supervised, How to Market yourself, The Business Aspects
• First Nations Mindfulness and More: Plains Peoples Way of Thinking and Being
• Custody Evaluations 101: Managing Value Disputes; Never Married Parents; & the Holiday/Vacation Schedule; Self-care, Safety & & Social Media
• Custody Evaluations 101: Social Capital; Developmental Ages & Stages; Role Modeling; Empirically Based Interventions; How & What to Tell Children About the Evaluation Process & Results; & The Damage of Secret Keeping
• Custody Evaluations 101: Evaluating Stepfamilies, Special Needs, Interfacing with Organizations, and The Legal Download
• Custody Evaluations 101: Allegations and Sensitivities
• The Ten Pillars Underlying a Developmentally-Informed Parenting Plan
• For the love of Fluffy: Transitional objects and high conflict divorce
• Clinical Strategies for EMDR Therapy: Creative Protocols
• The Nature & Extent of Child Sexual Abuse for Custody Evaluators
• Custody Evaluations 101: Challenging Issues
• How the Story Tells Itself in Preverbal and Non-Verbal EMDR
• Initial Clinical Interview for EMDR Treatment Planning
• Custody Evaluations 101: Forms, Procedures and Reports
• Finding Fit in Dysfunctional Families
• Keeping Kids Out of the Middle: Assessing and addressing the needs of the triangulated child
• Conducting ‘Reunification’ Therapies: Responding to Systemic Resist/Refuse Dynamics
• 31 Secrets of the Embodied Self
• Looking Through The Eyes
• Toward An Embodied Self
• When There Are No Words