He is the author of the award - winning book Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your
Emotions to Get the Life You
Really Want (Jossey - Bass, 2009), a founding and senior faculty member of the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute, and Co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living, based in Beverly Hills, CA, which offers innovative therapy,
coaching, and consulting.
The parenting coordinator can think up all kinds of activities to do and with which to require the parents to comply: pseudo-therapy (unregulated of course by the licensing boards because it's «not
really» therapy, and it's «not
really» law); «communications counseling»; «
coaching»; reading of materials; various «educational» homework assignments; meetings with one or the other of the parties, meetings together, meetings with various combinations of others; demands for disclosure, frequently in writing, of private thoughts,
emotions, and information; consultations and strategy sessions with the children's guardian ad litem and parents» court - ordered or parenting coordinator - ordered therapists; meetings with the children's physicians and teachers; meetings with anyone at all; ordering of a parent into supervised visitation or therapeutic visitation; recommending to the court therapies of all kinds with yet more of the helping professionals — almost anything.