Mesha Ellis, Ph.D. is the founder of The Institute of Relationship Wellness and Sexual Health (IRWSH), a group practice dedicated to helping children, individuals, families, and couples have happy and fulfilling relationships. IRWSH has physical office locations in Atlanta, Georgia, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Torrance, California. Services are additionally provided through videoconference in California, Georgia, Nevada, and Tennessee.

Dr. Ellis is a Certified Gottman Method Therapist, Consultant, Clinical Trainer, and Workshop Leader. In addition to also being certified in Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy, she is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor for those seeking AASECT Sex Therapy Certification. She spent the majority of her career supporting the education, professional development, and clinical skills training of graduate students matriculating through clinical psychology, masters in family therapy, public health, and medical school programs. She has additionally supervised and consulted with a plethora of students and licensed professionals for over 15 years.

Dr. Ellis is also Principal at Ellis Evaluation & Consulting Services, a private practice dedicated to the provision of psychoeducational, clinical, and forensic evaluations. She is a contract psychologist for the metro-Atlanta area Joint Admissions Testing Program (JATP). Dr. Ellis also regularly conducts child custody and juvenile forensic evaluations in California. She is licensed to practice as a psychologist in Georgia, Nevada, Tennessee, and California.

Ben Garber is a New Hampshire licensed psychologist. In the role of clinician, Dr. Garber provides systemically-informed, child-centered therapies, focusing on services intended to help separated, divorcing and divorced parents to keep their kids out of the middle of their conflicts. As family law professional, Dr. Garber conducts Child-Centered Family Evaluations (Child Custody Evaluations) and provides both testamentary and non-testamentary expert consultation to counsel and the courts across North America. Dr. Garber is a prolific author and a highly respected family law trainer. He is the author of hundreds of popular press articles, twenty peer reviewed professional publications, several book chapters and seven acclaimed books, most recently, “Holding Tight/Letting Go: Raising Healthy Kids In Anxious Times (Unhooked Books, 2017). Learn more at www.HealthyParent.com and www.FamilyLawConsulting.org.

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Highly-qualified certified management professional with extensive experience and formal training in research, information- gathering and investigative techniques. Over 34 years of practical experience in law enforcement is enhanced with extensive professional training and higher education. Proven analytical expertise and excellent organizational skills provide a keen ability to investigate and solve complex traumatic relationships. High proficiency in; Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Rorschach administration with Intermediate Level Training through Michigan Psychological Association, Thematic Apperception Test procedures, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – IV, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – V, Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – III, Conner’s Continuous Performance Test – III, Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test, Draw-A-Person (DAP) House, Tree, Person (HTP), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST), California Psychological Inventory (CPI), and skilled in psychoanalytical theoretical therapy. Consistently strives for excellence and is a positive attribute to any organization.

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Lori A. Love, Ph.D. has worked almost exclusively in the field of divorce and child custody for over 22 years. She is licensed in the states of California and Hawaii. She has also enjoyed working as a school psychologist and an adjunct faculty member of the Child Development Department at San Diego State University where she taught Divorce and Remarriage and Family Interaction Patterns.

Dr. Love has been an AFCC presenter on Parent Coordination, a regular speaker at The San Diego Family Law Bar continuing education seminars, and has enjoyed being on the faculty of the Family Law College of Trial Advocacy.

Dr. Love is a founding executive board member of Kathy’s Legacy, a charity that assists children and adult victims of domestic violence. She also serves on the advisory board of Kid’s Turn, an organization dedicated to assisting and empowering children of divorce in navigating the process.

The Hon. Margo Lewis Hoy (Ret.) joined Signature Resolution after 18 years of private practice and 11 years on the San Diego Superior Court. Known for her approachable demeanor, Judge Hoy mediates disputes concerning all areas of family law.  As a Superior Court judge, Judge Hoy served as the supervising judge of the family law division and oversaw 26 family law departments. To better serve parents and children, she pioneered the use of child custody parenting plans in the San Diego Superior Court. She also served on the court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and chaired its Family Law Policy Committee. Before being appointed to the bench, Judge Hoy founded the premier family law practice in San Diego County and handled thousands of complex cases involving child custody and visitation, child and spousal support, and more. She was certified as a Family Law Specialist in 2000. Judge Hoy has been honored by legal organizations throughout California, including multiple Judicial Officer of the Year awards and inclusion in the Top 25 Women Lawyers in San Diego.

David Ibrahim is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Licensed Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor. David has a dual Masters in Trauma and Marriage and Family Therapy. He has worked successfully with over 1000 patients. He is a certified EMDR Therapist and a specialist in Trauma and Addiction. He is also a E-500 Yoga teacher and Yoga Therapist. David has trained extensively with Dr. Arlene Drake, Dr. Nicole Gilbert, Dr. Stephen Dansiger, Dr. John Rathauser, Laura Dickson, and most recently with Dr. Andrew Leeds. And has had multiple consultation and advanced trainings with other experts in the field of trauma and addiction. He is trained and experienced in 8 forms of EMDR Therapy (OCD, PTSD, Depression, Addiction, Borderline Personality, Dissociative Identity Disorders, and Early attachment and implicit memory protocols). Additionally, David has trained and worked with many forms of therapy ranging from DBT, CBT, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Inner child work, somatic therapies, and Certified in ISTDP.

David’s experience as a Yoga and Meditation teacher (as well as other trainings in psychotherapy practices) add a unique set of skills that include the body in the psychotherapy process. When the body becomes a component of psychotherapy deeper healing can occur.

David’s experience has given him the opportunity to work with diverse types of people. He has worked with famous actors, directors, major league athletes, Grammy award winners, scholars, scientists, studio executives, engineers, and many other high performing and successful individuals.

David also has experience working with clients from diverse cultures, age groups, sexual orientations, and spiritual beliefs.

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.

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Allen Levy, MS, LPA is a masters level psychologist in Anchorage, Alaska with a particular interest in the intersection of psychology and law. He has been practicing as a therapist since 2001. His therapy practice focuses on family dynamics and complex family issues. He created a post-separation parenting curriculum teaching rules, tools, and strategies for separated/divorced parents to share the job of parenting. In addition to providing therapy, Al offers a range of forensic services: custody evaluations, expert witness, and consultation. He also does Continuing Education for therapists on a number of topics. He is an adjunct professor teaching family therapy at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA in the psychology department graduate program. Al served on Alaska's Psychologist and Psychological Associates Licensing Board from 2012 2021. He served for nearly 5 years as board chair.

He paid for his Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College by playing Ferryboat Music. Al published a memoir of his time as an ‘outlaw musician’: Blue Water Bluegrass: The Ferryboat Musicians. Al is known for his musical abilities. He plays banjo, guitar, ukelele, and fiddle. He plays “music for young people of all ages.” He has a unique show in which he encourages and invites children from the audience to join him on stage. They help him with his show by playing rhythm instruments or the wash-tub bass.

Although born in Landstuhl Germany, Al grew up in Alaska. As a lifelong Alaskan, Al is an avid outdoorsman—fishing, hiking, camping, canoeing, kayaking, and gathering edible mushrooms. He speaks Russian and Hebrew and enjoys travel. Because of his language abilities and travel experiences he enjoys working with people from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds.

Sally Lynch, LMFT, spent 10 years as a teacher in grades Kindergarten through Second and also facilitated integrated learning with children with special needs.  She completed her Master’s Degree in Psychology at the Phillips Graduate Institute in San Fernando Valley and became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, working in both the Los Angeles and San Diego areas. 

Sally enjoys counseling individuals, families, and couples.  She utilizes research-based therapy techniques to assist families and individuals to overcome target behaviors to enhance their productivity and lead healthier and happier lives. Sally has received specialized training as a custody evaluator and is honored to assist families in recommending a blueprint towards their children’s best interest.

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• Recommendations in Evaluations that Benefit the Utility of Conjoint Family Therapy
• 2025 Annual CCE Update

Sandra L. Mayberry, J.D. brings 25 years of Family Law experience to Parks and Solar, including complex and high asset cases. She has practiced in San Diego County, exclusively in Family Law, for 25 years and has been a Certified Family Law Specialist, from the State Bar Board of Legal Specialization for more than 18 years. She has been a Fellow with the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 2012. She has been active in various aspects of the San Diego County Family Law Bar Association and San Diego County Bar since she began practice.

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 André Monteiro, Ph.D., has been practicing psychotherapy for approximately 40 years, and EMDR since 2000. He was a professor at the Catholic University of Brasília for almost 10 years. He participated with a chapter on the use of EMDR in group psychotherapy in Mark Nickerson’s book Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy: Innovative Strategies and Protocols (2016-Springer) (2^nd ed. In 2022). 

 In 2017, he was a keynote speaker and presenter at the first Trauma and Resilience in the Borderland Conference (Texas - June) and conducted a Symposium on Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma and Resources (TTT) in Santiago (Chile – September). 

In 2018 he presented on TTT at the EMDR Canadian Conference (Cité de Québec – April), EMDR Europe Conference in Strasbourg (July), at EMDRIA Conference in Atlanta (October), and carried out TTT workshops in Portugal (February), Uruguay (August), Brazil (September), and Argentina (November). 

He has participated with a chapter in the Springer book: EMDR Group Therapy: Emerging Principles and Protocols to Treat Trauma and Beyond (2023 - Edited by Robinson, R.M. and Kaptan, S. K.). 

He has presented on the topic of EMDR and group psychotherapy for EMDR India (2022), EMDR Europe (Bologna, 2023), EMDR Canada (2022) and EMDRIA (2022). 

 Other activities include the coordination of the website: www.espacodamente.com, with on-line video courses on psychology, psychotherapy and neuroscience. 

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Stephanie Newberg, M.Ed., MSW, LCSW, offers a rich background in psychotherapy spanning over 25 years. Licensed in Florida and Pennsylvania, she assists individuals, couples, and families, specializing in areas such as family and couples therapy, conflict resolution, grief and loss, parenting support, and navigating the complexities of divorce on children and families. She brings expertise in family and divorce mediation, co-parent counseling, and sand tray play therapy for children and adolescents, highlighting her versatile approach to mental health care.

A committed educator, Stephanie has led workshops and presentations on relationship skills, the effects of divorce, managing cyberbullying, understanding the impact of technology on development, and strategies for stress and nutrition in mental health. Her scholarly contributions include publications and podcast features, showcasing her thought leadership in the field.

Furthermore, Stephanie has dedicated efforts to support first responders, underscoring her versatile expertise. Her academic contributions as an adjunct professor and supervisor at the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work demonstrate her commitment to training future social workers. Through her varied roles, Stephanie exemplifies a comprehensive approach to mental health, blending clinical practice with education and advocacy to support community well-being.