Susan Boyan

As a psychotherapist I have had a clinical practice for over 40 years providing a variety of services to children and families with a specialty in high-conflict divorce. The high-conflicted divorced parents are one of the most difficult groups of adults to work with as they are entrenched in their negative beliefs about each other, they are typically adversarial and often have very limited insight and other personality challenges. These parents are best served with the appointment of a parenting coordinator. My divorce related books are written for divorcing, separated or post-divorce parents from mild to high-conflict.

• Cooperative Coparenting through separation and divorce (parent guide)

• Cooperative Coparenting through separation and divorce (8 week coparenting group program)

• Crossroads of Divorce (divorce seminar)

• The Coparents’ Communication Handbook

• The Parenting Coordination Reference Manual

• Defusing Coparent Conflict Through Scripture and Psychology

• Peacemaking for Coparents in the Midst of Conflict

My background and degrees are in special education, rehab counseling, community counseling and primarily marriage and family. Furthermore, I have been writing and training on divorce related topics since 1993. I have authored professional articles on high-conflict divorce and co-authored four books for conflicted divorced parents and produced a psychoeducational coparenting video. Furthermore, I have done TV interviews and frequently testify as an expert in the field of high-conflict divorce, parental alienation and parenting coordination.

Over the last few decades working with conflicted Christian coparents, I have discovered that incorporating faith into treatment has been the most effective intervention for change. I recognized many years ago the need for Christian parents to have scripture-based skills to assist them in making personal changes. As someone who is passionate about improving the lives of families riddled by divorce, and a person of faith, this project has been on my heart for a very long time; as the proverb goes, “necessity is the mother of invention.”