Trainers
Vicki
Carpel-Miller, MFT is a licensed marriage and
family
therapist in private practice for over 18 years, specializing in the
treatment
of divorce related issues and blended families. Vicki
was instrumental in bringing Collaborative Practice to
Arizona and functions as a divorce coach, child specialist and/or case
manager
in Collaborative Divorce files. Vicki
is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and
Family
Therapists (AAMFT), and an Advanced Practitioner
Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) specializing in
custody
and post-divorce issues. She has
received advanced training in family mediation, narrative mediation,
interest-based negotiation, Collaborative Law and Collaborative Divorce
Interdisciplinary Team Practice. She
has served as a custody evaluator, family court advisor/parenting
coordinator
and therapeutic interventionist for the Maricopa County Superior Court
addressing
children’s needs in family court disputes. Vicki
is currently on the Executive Committee of
the International
Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) serving as Secretary to
the
organization, a member of the IACP Professional Development Committee
and the
IACP Forum Committee. She is a trainer
with the Collaborative Divorce Training Team, and co-founder of the
Collaborative
Divorce Professionals of Arizona. She
is a former member of the IACP Standards Committee, Core Skills
Institute
Committee, and the Advisory Council on Collaborative Training and
Practice of
the IACP. Her office is located in
Scottsdale, Arizona. 480-551-2600 ext 1
(office phone), or email at collaborate119@aol.com.
Mark
C. Hill,
CFP®, CDFA, has been involved in the
financial services
industry in an advisory capacity since 1983. He is both a Certified
Financial
Planner practitioner and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. He
recently
served on the Board of the San Diego Financial Planning Association for
three
years and is the current President of the San Diego Collaborative
Family Law
Group. In addition Mr. Hill is a Regional Director for the Institute
for
Divorce Financial Analysts, the Treasurer of the International Academy
of
Collaborative Professionals and serves on the Collaborative Divorce
Training
Team responsible for interdisciplinary trainings throughout the
country.
Formerly
a
Portfolio Manager with a major Wall Street firm, he is a founder and
Managing
Director of Pacific Wealth Management, LLC, a San Diego-based
investment
management consulting and financial planning company. As a financial
planner,
Mr. Hill's business routinely involves assisting clients with issues
related to
budgeting, risk evaluation, investments, taxes, retirement planning and
estate
planning. In recent years, experience with clients has resulted in an
increased
focus within the practice on how these issues are dealt with in divorce
and
resulted in the formation of the company’s Pacific Divorce Management
division. Mark C. Hill can be reached at: 858-509-9797,
toll-free: 888-495-9797 or e-mail: mhill@pacdivorce.com. Web site: www.pacdivorce.com.
Janis M.
Pritchard, BA, LLB is a member of the Law Society
of Alberta and
received her call to the Bar in 1977, graduating with distinction. She is a partner in the firm of Pritchard
and Company LLP and her practice for the past 20 years has been
restricted to
family law. Janis’ practice is now
restricted to Collaborative Family Law and Mediation.
Janis is a Registered Family Mediator in Alberta
and has received
advanced training in Collaborative Law, Interdisciplinary Collaborative
Practice, Interest Based Negotiation and Mediation.
Janis is the founding President of the Association
of
Collaborative Professionals (Medicine Hat & Brooks).
Janis was key to implementing Collaborative
Practice in Medicine Hat and other centers in Alberta, Saskatchewan,
the
Northwest Territories, Yukon, British Columbia, New Brunswick and
Prince Edward
Island and providing Collaborative training in Alberta, Saskatchewan,
British
Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Prince Edward Island, Ontario,
Minnesota,
New Brunswick, Austria, Yukon, Maryland and Virginia.
Janis is a former member of the board of the
International
Academy of Collaborative Professionals where she co-chaired the IACP
Board
Committee dealing with Standards for Collaborative Professionals and
co-chaired
the Advisory Council on Collaborative Training and Practice of the IACP. The Medicine Hat Collaborative Practice
group has revolutionized the divorce process for clients and the
practice of
family law in Medicine Hat.
George B. Richardson, JD has
engaged in
Collaborative Practice since the early 1990s and is a founder and
former
President of Collaborative Practice Silicon Valley [established in 1993
as the
Collaborative Law Association]. Since 1999, he has been a member of the
International Academy of Collaborative Professionals [“IACP”] and is
co-chair
of the IACP’s Standards Committee [charged with drafting standards for
practitioners, trainers, and trainings in Collaborative Practice]. He
is also
co-chair of the Advisory Council on Collaborative Training and Practice
of the
IACP. He has presented on various aspects of Collaborative Practice
throughout
North America. Together with others, he has been offering introductory,
fundamental, and advanced courses in Collaborative Practice since 1999.
He has
extensive mediation training and experience and has been practicing
family law
exclusively since the late 1980s.
Nancy
J. Ross, LCSW, BCD is a co-founder of
Collaborative Divorce and principal of
Bauer, Shepherd & Ross & Associates (BSR), a psychotherapy
practice in
Cupertino, CA. As a clinician for over
twenty-five years, Nancy has specialized in couple’s and family
therapy.
Currently, over 80% of the practice is dedicated to collaborative work. She is both a divorce coach and mediator for
custody and post-divorce issues. A
founding member of the International Academy of Collaborative
Professionals
(IACP), she has also served on both the ethics and standards committees
of
IACP. She is a Certified Interpersonal
communications Trainer, training work teams, Interdisciplinary
Collaborative Practice
teams and practice groups in effective teamwork. As
a member of Collaborative Practice Silicon Valley, (CPSV), she
trains with their training team, introducing lawyers to the role of
coaches and
child specialists in Collaborative Practice. With
her CPSV colleagues, she has taught
Collaborative Practice at Santa
Clara University School of Law. A
co-author of Divorce: A Problem to
be Solved, Not a Battle to be Fought and author of numerous
articles on
Collaborative Divorce, she continues to teach and train in the
Collaborative
Divorce model with Collaborative Divorce Team Trainings.
Contract
Trainers
Tamara Rounds, MSW, LCSW is a
licensed clinical social
worker and
family therapist. Tamara divides her professional time between Arizona
State
University where she is a Faculty Associate teaching advanced clinical
coursework and her private practice were she specializes in child,
family and
adolescent issues. Tamara has been in private practice in Arizona since
1996
and has been teaching at ASU since 2000. Tamara
is the 2006 recipient of the ASU Most
Distinguished Faculty Award
for her innovative coursework in Mind-Body Integration and speaking
presence in
the classroom.
Tamara
brings a
rich tapestry of experience to the Collaborative process encompassing
employment with Mayo Hospital and Mayo Outpatient Clinic working with
patients
presenting with chronic and persistent physical and mental health
challenges;
facilitating workshops on topics that include mindful parenting; adults
taking
active leadership and mentoring roles in their families; domestic
violence;
child abuse; stress management; and character building for adolescents. Tamara teaches the following advanced degree
level courses at Arizona State University: clinical skills building;
assessment
and diagnosis; ethics; family therapy; group facilitation instruction;
residency and internship supervision; and child, adolescent and adult
development. In addition, Tamara completed clinical rotations in Family
Therapy, Adoption, Art and Experiential Therapy.
Tamara
is a
clinical member of the National Association of Social Work and an
active member
of the California Association for Marriage and Family Therapists. She
is also
is an active member of the Collaborative Divorce Professionals of
Arizona
Practice Group and functions as a divorce coach, child specialist and
case
manager in Collaborative Divorce.
Tamara places
a high premium on the
Collaborative Divorce process, as she believes it is the only
compassionate
approach to divorce.
Lauren
G.
Alexander, JD graduated from
Emory Law
School in 1979 and has been in private practice since 1989. She
maintains an
exclusively Collaborative practice, the Collaborative Law Office of
Lauren G.
Alexander. She is a Judicial Officer in
the Fulton County Superior Court Family Division and a certified
mediator in
domestic and civil cases. Lauren, a
member of numerous associations, has made a myriad of presentations on
collaborative practice and trained practitioners in both introductory
and
advanced collaborative courses. Lauren
is the President of the Collaborative Law Institute of Georgia for the
year
2007 and chairs the training for the state. She
co-chaired the 2005 International Academy of
Collaborative
Professionals (IACP) Forum in Atlanta and is on the IACP Research
Committee.
Andrew Hoffman, CFP®,
CDFA has
practiced as a
Certified Divorce Financial Analyst since 1999.
His expertise in helping clients avoid the common
financial
mistakes made by many divorcing couples was featured in the Investment
Advisor “The Ties that Unbind” (February 2001) and the Wall
Street Journal “How to Plan the Perfect Divorce” (February
2003)
and “Cost of a Breakup” (July 2006).
Andrew is a Regional Director of the Institute for Divorce
Financial Analysts and been a member of the Institute of Certified
Financial
Planners since 1996 and a Chartered Accountant (English equivalent of a
CPA)
since 1978.
Andrew has been a guest speaker on Financial Issues of Divorce
in both the United States and Canada. He
has presented at the 2005 International
Conference of Collaborative
Professionals, the Institute of Divorce Financial Analysts Conventions
in 2003
through 2006, to Financial Planning Associations in Louisiana, Texas
and Iowa,
the Baton Rouge, Slidell and 21st Judicial District Bar
Associations
in Louisiana and Conflict Resolution’s 1999 & 2000 family law
mediation
seminars.
Andrew was trained in Collaborative Divorce in April
2004 (New
Orleans), and is a financial trainer on Louisiana and National
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce™
Training Teams. He currently is a Board Member of the
Collaborative Divorce Professionals Group of Southeast Louisiana, was
Vice President (2005-2006) and a Charter Member. He was featured
in The Times-Picayune "Law may
clear away for kinder, gentler divorces" (February 2004) and Financial Advisor "A Kindler Gentler
Way to Divorce" (July 2005).
Andrew
can be reached at lacdfa@bellsouth.net, or through his website
www.lacdfa.com
(phone 985-674-1120). His brochure,
“Financial Myths of Divorce” can be downloaded from the Frequently
Asked
Questions (FAQs) section of his website.