Robert Pelc, Ph.D., ABPP, is a clinical and forensic psychologist in independent practice in Littleton, Colorado. He completed his doctoral training at the University of Denver in 1975. He is a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology with the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is a past president of the Colorado Psychological Association and a past member of the Colorado Board of Psychologist Examiners. He has taught courses at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology and at the College of Law. He has authored numerous professional papers.

Susan Rempel, Ph.D., is an LMFT who serves as a child custody evaluator and mediator, parenting plan coordinator, therapist, and consultant. Dr. Rempel has performed approximately 625 child custody evaluations. She is listed on the Los Angeles Superior Court Family Law Private Child Custody Evaluator and Private Counselor lists. She is a practitioner member of the APFM and has served as a child custody mediator for the SFVBA and LACBA, VAST and VSO programs.

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Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT, writer, educator, and yoga therapist, is known for her dedication to facilitating healing journeys through yoga therapy. Christine's clinical practice, specializing in aiding individuals with anxiety and trauma, embodies empathy, expertise, and a heartfelt commitment to guiding others toward innate wholeness. As a co-founding partner of Yoga Therapy Associates, Christine envisions a platform to connect individuals with skilled yoga therapists and integrate yoga therapy into medical, mental health, and social services settings. She is dedicated to enhancing the quality and professionalism of yoga therapy by elevating best practices.

As a certified yoga therapist recognized by the International Association of Yoga Therapists, Christine offers continuing education and occupational wellness programs through Yoga Therapy Associates, particularly supporting helping professionals. Christine is a regular contributor to the Yoga Therapy Associates blog, where she shares insights tailored for medical and mental health readers, illuminating the research behind yoga therapy's efficacy. Learn more about Christine at Yoga Therapy Associates.

Deb Silveria, Ph.D., is both a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1993. She has a private practice at the Amen Clinics in Costa Mesa, CA. with a focus in trauma and grief counseling. She has trained professionals in the United States and internationally (Uganda, Africa) in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapy. She is an EMDRIA certified Basic Trainer. She is also an RTEP/GTEP EMDR trainer. She trains with several training companies, including EMDR Professional Training and Trauma Recovery Network/HAP, providing Basic Training and specialty workshops.

Jeffrey C. Siegel, Ph.D., ABPP is a forensic and clinical psychologist with over 44 years in practice. He is board-certified in Clinical and Family Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology and a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Psychology.

Dr. Siegel has conducted hundreds of court-appointed Parenting Plan Evaluations in Texas and other states, qualified as an expert in numerous states and testified well over 400 times. He has published peer-reviewed research regarding psychological testing, high conflict cases forensic practice and counseling processes. In addition, he has co-authored works on narcissism in forensic practice and child custody evaluation processes.

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• Parent-Focused Forensic Psychological Evaluations

Dr. Philip Stahl is a Board-certified forensic psychologist in private practice, living in Southern California, who provides consultation and expert witness testimony in child custody litigation throughout the United States, North America, and Australia. His primary area of specialty is relocation, including complex international relocations. Dr. Stahl is licensed in Arizona, California, Hawaii and Michigan. He conducts workshops and training throughout the United States and internationally for lawyers, child custody evaluators, and others working with high-conflict families of divorce. He is on the faculty of National Judicial College, teaching domestic violence to judges since 2000, and regularly speaks at state judicial colleges.

Along with his teaching, Dr. Stahl has written extensively on high-conflict divorce and custody evaluations. He is the author of Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: From Basic to Advanced Issues, (Sage Publications, 2010) and Parenting After Divorce, 2nd Edition (Impact Publishers,2008) and is co-author, with Dr. Robert Simon, of Forensic Psychology Consultation in Child Custody Litigation: A Handbook for Work Product Review, Case Preparation, and Expert Testimony, (American Bar Association Section of Family Law, 2nd Edition, 2020).

His most exciting project has been his book, written with his daughter Rebecca Stahl, JD, LLM, titled, Representing Children in Dependency and Family Court: Beyond the Law, published by the ABA Family Law Section in 2018.

Dr. Stahl can be reached for questions, consultation, expert witness work, or speaking at conferences via:

www.parentingafterdivorce.com

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• Identifying Weakness in your PPE and Process
• Quality Evaluations in the Context of Coercive Control
• Parenting Plan Evaluations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Celia Sugg, LCSW, PC, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 20 years of experience serving diverse client populations in a variety of settings. Her clinical experience includes providing therapy to children and families experiencing homelessness, individual and group therapy to survivors of domestic violence, and treatment for issues including anxiety, panic, phobias, depression, trauma, CPTSD, codependency, and personality disorders. Celia has extensive training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, trauma informed therapy, and EMDR.

She provides supervision, EMDR consultation, and training to therapists and organizations, and assists in facilitating EMDR Basic Trainings. Celia is a Certified EMDR Therapist and specializes in using EMDR for the resolution of anxiety, panic, and phobias using a protocol she has created and used successfully for more than a decade, as well as taught to clinicians and consultees. She has been in private practice since 2005 with a focus on helping professionals, perfectionists, and people pleasers struggling with anxiety and overwhelm get results-oriented help so that they can experience healing and hope.

You can learn more at her website.

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I have practiced law since 1975 and have limited my practice to the area of Family Law since approximately 1980. My practice is concentrated on complex family law matters usually involving issues relating to property valuation and division, characterization of property as community or separate property and support. If custody becomes a major issue, I will bring in co-counsel to handle the custody portion of the case while I handle the other portions.  My general philosophy of family law litigation is that almost all cases are capable of settlement and should be settled. I am successful in settling cases approximately 95% of the time. However, if a case cannot be settled, then it should be vigorously litigated. I have tried scores of cases lasting from one day to several months. In recent years, most of my trials have lasted a week or more.

Sik-Lam Wong became a psychotherapist after his retirement from a 30-year career as a research physicist. He was an early adopter and researcher of the Flash Technique and published the first paper on FT groups as well as the first theory paper on the Flash Technique. He has been training master-level social work students on the Flash Technique at California State University, East Bay since 2020.