A Compassionate Commitment to Serving Families

Professional Goals

It is my dream that every child will be able to have an independent, nurturing, and meaningful relationship with each parent, regardless of their parents’ marital or relational status. Every couple can celebrate the intimacy and longevity of a relationship built upon authentic joy, trust, and caring. Every family can function in a way that provides the support and love essential to raising emotionally and physically healthy children, who in turn will some day take care of them.

My mission is to work with families to mediate disputes that impact their children and affect the emotional and financial viability of the family system. Families that work with me will experience a compassionate commitment to preserving their relationships, as I help to balance the need for parental consistency with their desire to establish autonomous households. Most importantly, I will take the best interests of each child to heart so that he or she can develop into an individual who is confident and capable.

Professional Expertise

Forensic Child Specialist

• Collaborative Child Specialist
• Parent Evaluator
• Divorce, Title 26 Guardian Ad Litem
• Paternity, Title 26 Guardian Ad Litem

Mediation/Arbitration/Settlement Conferences

• Dissolution, Paternity, Custody
• Post-Decree Parenting & Property Disputes

Therapy

• Parental Conflict
• Adjustment to Separation, Divorce, or Loss of a Parent
• Parenting Skills
• Co-Parenting during marriage or after separation
• Divorce Coach
• Adoption
• Racial & Cultural Identity Development

Consultant

• Parental Options for At Risk Juvenile Behavior
• Child School Advocacy, Children in Need of Services, At-Risk Youth
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Options to Divorce & Legal Separation
• Cultural Competence & Diversity

Employment History

Therapist, Mediator, & Child Specialist, Eastside Mediation & Mental Health, September 2005 to present

Lecturer, Parent Education Group, 2005 to present

Mediator, Mediation Panel King County OSE, 2004 to present

Intern, Therapist, Highline Mental Health, 2004 -2004

Intern, Therapist, Seattle Mental Health, 2004-2005Intern,

Therapist, Seattle Children’s Home, 2003 to 2004

Volunteer Settlement Master, King County Superior Court, 1998 to present

President & Attorney, Tudor & Tudor, PS, 1983 to presentDirector, Eastside Legal Assistance Program, 1998 to 2000

Adjunct Professor, University of Washington, Family Law Clinic, 1999-2000

Adjunct Professor, Seattle Pacific University, September 1982 to December 1983

Adjunct Professor, University of Puget Sound Law School. September 1982 to December 1983

Attorney, Law Offices of Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malenca, Peterson, and O’Hearn
Practice emphasis: Insurance defense and real estate litigation, March 1981 to May 1983