People don’t get married with the expectation that they will divorce someday.  When a divorce happens, it is stressful and painful.  A divorce is a loss at many levels – a relationship that failed, a marriage that failed, loss of shared assets, and loss of fulltime parenting. 

Unfortunately, there are times when a parent loses a relationship with the child during the divorce process or during post-divorce litigation and this can be especially devastating. 

Dr. Alvarez has twenty years of experience working with high conflict divorces, divorces which create significant strife and stress for both parents and children. Many times, high conflict parents are involved in a family law matter before the court and Dr. Alvarez’ experience also includes working with the judiciary and family law attorneys.

Protecting a child’s psychological development through the divorce process and post-divorce process is critical, especially when the parent conflict is high.  Dr. Alvarez have the clinical experience and knowledge of the family law system to help parents navigate all of the potential parenting challenges and negative psychological effects on a child that a divorce can create. 

Dr. Alvarez’ ultimate goal is to preserve the child’s growth and development by helping the parents create a new family model that fosters healthy parent-child relationships and civil parent-parent relationships post-divorce.