For the past 27 years, I have been regularly working with adults and couples of all sexual orientations who have been seeking relief from symptoms of depression, anxiety, attention deficits, issues of orientation, and relationship tensions (please access my profile on www.therapistfinder.com for more information).

I have a special interest in issues of permanent separation: to help partners and family members adjust to the changes that separation brings, to wisely choose a method of separation that is appropriate to their abilities to communicate and least destructive to their children.

As a Collaborative Coach, I work with a form of legal separation called Collaborative Law or Collaborative Divorce through which partners develop a concise picture of what they want their post separation lives to look like financially, emotionally, relationally and, if they have children, what they want the relationship between them and their other parent to look like. This becomes the base upon which all their decisions and agreements for separation will be made; at the end of their work with me and their collaborative team, they will have a legal, enforceable document that secures their vision of their future, and protects each partner’s, parent’s and child’s need for a stable future and healthy relationships.

Location:
Feder-Mackler Clinic
2525 Camino del Rio South, #205
San Diego, CA 92108
Neighborhood: Mission Valley
619-291-2511 (voice)

Online Address
www.divorceducation.com
mmackler@divorceducation.com

Services Offered
Individual Therapy, Couples Therapy, Consulting

Languages
English

Age Specialty
Adults, Children

License Information
License No: CA MFC21423
Practicing Since: 1985
Verified

Partners will have accomplished this with dignity, privacy, moderated levels of conflict and, very importantly, without ever having gone to court. Through Collaborative Law, partners will not be using the courts as a battleground, but they will have honed their capacity for resolving issues constructively, together, in the present and as they arise in later years. (Please log on to http://www.divorceducation.com for more information).

Education:
B.A., George Washington University, Psychology

M.A., United States International University, Human Behavior

Specialties:
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), Anger Management, Anxiety, Assertiveness Training, Avoidant Personality, CAMFT Certified Supervisor, Career Stress and Changes, Clinical Depression, Children, Communication Skills, Co-Dependency/Adult Children of Alcoholics, Couples/Relationships/Families, Crisis Intervention, Creative Solutions, Divorce/Dissolution, Employment Issues, Gay/Lesbian Issues, Grief/Loss Terminally Ill, Individual, Life Transitions, Mediation, Men’s Issues, Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder, Parenting, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Self Esteem/Personal Growth, Sexual Dysfunction, Stress, Supervision, Women’s Issues

Theoretical Orientation:
Brief/Solution Focused Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral, Communications, Family Systems, Narrative, Systems

Insurance:
Please contact my office for this information.

Memberships:
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Collaborative Family Law Group San Diego, International Association of Collaborative Professionals.