Patrice Garver, (Mental Health Professional/Mediator)
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For over 25 years I have worked with children, adolescents, families, and adults in crisis situations, in therapy, to help develop intervention plans, and to help navigate and address various issues impacting the divorce process. Involvement in the collaborative process provides a divorcing couple with the support and guidance of their individual lawyers outside of court. As a Collaborative Mental Health Coach, I am committed to helping clients apply effective problem-solving and communication techniques to resolve disputes calmly, respectfully, and with within the supportive team format. I also can provide time and space for my client to tell their story, be validated, and to help process and identify stressful and conflicting issues. This practice approach helps negotiate mutually-acceptable resolutions, rather than compel court decisions. As a Child Specialist within the collaborative team, I can offer a constructive way of including the voice of the child or adolescent of divorcing parents. In this role, I gather information about the child's emotional state and experience and integrate this important material into the overall collaborative process. My expertise in child development and assessment adds an additional perspective to share with the parents and team. I have received additional training specifically focusing on divorce mediation skills at Northwestern University and Mediation and Conflict Resolution (Center for Understanding in Conflict-Friedman/Himmelstein) addressing effective problem solving, decision making and communication within the collaborative process.
Collaborative Services
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Professional Activities
CURRENT:
2022 CPNV Board Member
PRIOR:
CPNV Board Secretary 2017 -2020
CPNV Board President 2021
Collaborative Practice Training
| Year | Course Title | Instructor | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic/ Introductory Collaborative Law or Interdisciplinary Collaborative Team Training. | |||
| 2015 | Collab divorce 2-day team training | Lisa Herrick | 15 hours |
| 30-Hr Interest-Based Negotiation & Mediation Skills | |||
| 2013 | Interest-based Negotiation and Mediation skills for Collaborative professionals | Herrick/Scharff | 30 |
| Additional 15 hours Intermediate/ Advanced interest-based negotiation, communication skills, collaborative, or basic professional coach training | |||
| 2015 | When Clients and the Team Collide: Whose Case is it Anyway? | IACP/CDA | 1.5 |
| 2014 | What''s so special about special needs children and divorce? | CPNV/Goldberg | 1 |
| 2014 | VaCP 7th Annual Meeting/Adult attachment Style During Separation and divorce | VaCP/3C Institute Berger/Alexander | 6 |
| 2014 | Building your collaborative practice | CPNV/D'Ari/Moher | 1 |
| 2013 | Advanced Collaborative Training: create a deep and durable parenting plan | CPTI/Herrick/Scharff | 5.5 |
| Annual 4 hours collaborative continuing education (basic, intermediate, or advanced) | |||
| 2025 | Review of the Research on Divorce and Children: Facts v. Myths | MACP Forum: Lisa Herrick, Ph.D. | 1.5 |
| 2025 | Keeping You on Top: Avoiding the Collaborative Avalanche | MACP Forum: Deborah Gilman, PhD | 3 |
| 2025 | Improv Team Building Session | MACP Forum: Dave Gau | 2 |
| 2025 | Collaborative 102: Beyond Your Introductory Training - Part 1 | MACP Forum: Debbie Beach, LCSW ; Jennifer Bradley, Esq. | 1.5 |
| 2024 | Triggers that Make Attorneys Protective of Clients, and What Is ‘Zealous Advocacy’ in Collaborative Cases? | CPNV: Sarah Goding, Stephanie Smith, and Lynn Hawkins | 1.5 |
| 2024 | Setting a Good Foundation - Initial Team Conversations | CPNV: Natalie Goldberg, LCSW, LICSW, LCSW-C and Elizabeth Bookwalter, JD | 1.5 |
| 2024 | Reunification Therapy: A structured Approach | CPNV: Lisa Bennett, Ph.D. | 1.5 |
| 2024 | Pre- and Post-Divorce Financial Planning: How to Ensure Clients Successfully Enter/Exit the Divorce Process | CPNV: Jordan Egert, CPA, CFE, CDFA™ and Stephanie Anderson, CFA, CFP®, CDFA® | 1.5 |
| 2024 | Money and Emotion – Client History of Money Dynamics | CPNV: Sue Soler, LCSW-C, LICSW, Debbie May, LCSW, Abbie Neihoff, MPS, CFP®, CDFA® | 1.5 |
| 2024 | How to Manage the Emotional Baggage Clients Bring to the Collaborative Process | CPNV: Natalie Goldberg, LCSW, LICSW, LCSW-C | 1.5 |
| 2024 | Divorce and the Marital Home | CPNV: Margie Hofberg | 1.5 |
| 2023 | Trauma-Responsive Collaborative Practice (16th VaCP) 11-13-23 | Dana Baerger, J.D., Ph.D. | 6 |
| 2022 | Transitioning Clients in Collaborative Divorce | Michael McHugh, Esq. and Teresa Cole, Esq. | 1.5 |
| 2022 | Targeted Tools to Resolve Complex Collaborative Impasses | Carl Mitlehner, CFP®, Sue Soler, LCSW, and Jennifer Bradley, JD | 1.5 |
| 2022 | Solid Foundations -How to build practices that withstand the storm | Debbie Beach/Don Paris/Steven Goldman | 1.5 |
| 2022 | Managing Challenges in the Collaborative Divorce Process: Cognitive Bias, Mental Health, High Conflict Personality Disorders, and Addictions | Dr. Beth I. Wilner, Ph.D. | 6 |
| 2022 | If You See Something Say Something | Jamie Blum/ Jordan Egert | 1.5 |
| 2022 | Divorcing your spouse, but staying married to Uncle Sam | Sarah Avila, CFP®, CDFA® | 1.5 |
| 2022 | DCACP: The Long and Winding Farewell: How Divorce Changes What We Think We Know About Grief | Hope Edelman | 4.5 |
| 2022 | Collaborative Clients: When kumbaya is not enough. | Barbara Burr, Esq. | 1.5 |
| 2022 | A Parent’s Mental Illness Should Not Prevent a Successful Parenting Plan | Stephanie Smith, JD, and Patrice Garver, MHP | 1.5 |
| 2021 | Understanding Domestic Violence and the Challenges in Getting It Right | CPNV: Viola Vaughan-Eden, PhD, MJ, LCSW | 1.5 |
| 2021 | UCLA -What it means to. your Collaborative Practice | J.Bradley, K Keyes, J. White | 1.5 |
| 2021 | Transform Them | Jonathan Foust MA | 1.5 |
| 2021 | The Flexible Potential of the Child Specialist Role | CPNV: Natalie Goldberg and Lisa Herrick | 1.5 |
| 2021 | Should Va. Create a Presumption of Shared /Custody | L.Herrick/AdeleD./Jennifer Bradley | 1.5 |
| 2021 | No Justice, No Peace | B. Burr/N. Goldberg | 1.5 |
| 2021 | Maximizing the Role of a Financial Neutral in Unprecedented Times (14th VaCP) | Jane Rowny, CPA, CFP®, CDFA®, Jamie Blum, CPA, CDFA®, & Jordan Egert, CPA, CFE, CDFA® | 2 |
| 2021 | Hold on To your Hats/Streamlining strategies | Goldberg/Bradley/Fletcher/Ochsman-Rowney | 1.5 |
| 2021 | DBT theory/concepts applied to the Collaborative Process | B. Rathbone | 1.5 |
| 2021 | Changes, Practical Applications and Issues now that the UCLA Statute has been Enacted (14th VaCP) | Teresa Cole, JD, Karen Keyes, JD & Cheryl Smith, JD | 1.25 |
| 2021 | Beyond Spread Sheets and Cash Flow a Deep Dive into the Financial Neutral's role | Debbie May CPA & Robin Taub JD | 1.5 |
| 2021 | ADULT ADHD IN COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE: A POWERFUL, UNDER-RECOGNIZED X FACTOR | CPNV: Kate Scharff, PhD | 1.5 |
| 2021 | A Deeper Dive into the Role of the Child Specialist (14th VaCP) | Natalie Goldberg, LCSW & Lisa Herrick, PhD | 2.75 |
| 2020 | Yikes-My Client is recently sober-integrating substance abuse recover into a parenting plan | Natalie Goldberg/George Young | 1.5 |
| 2020 | The Psychological and Ethical Dimensions of Collaborative Practice | David A. Hoffman, Collaborative Attorney & Mediator | 6 |
| 2020 | The New Normal | CPNV: Steve Goldman & Patrice Garver | 1.5 |
| 2020 | Prenups, the Collaborative Way | CPNV: Michael McHugh & Lynn Fletcher | 1.5 |
| 2020 | IACP Conference | Virtual | 10 |
| 2020 | Disclosure, Distraction, Denial, Dunno Addressing Full. disclosure of Ambiguous adultery in CD | Steve Goldman/David Ginsburg | 1.5 |
| 2020 | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: Adapting Techniques for Collaborative Practice | CPNV: Britt Rathbone | 3 |
| 2020 | CPNV During Covid-19-Impacts and Opportunity | Goldberg/Herrick/Soler/Bradley/Moher | 1.5 |
| 2019 | Women & Financial Wellness: Beyond the Bottom Line | CPNVPeter Gorman&Rodney Brandon | 1.5 |
| 2019 | Valuing the Child | IACP Webinar: Deborah Clemmensen, Yuval Berger, Kristin Little | 1 |
| 2019 | UCLA law and VA | TeresaCole and Karen Keyes | 1.5 |
| 2019 | The Space Between: The Richness of Our Work with Clients Before and | CPNVAdele D’Ari and Paul Smollar | 1.5 |
| 2019 | Parent Child Contact Problems& Applying Collaborative Principles | CPNVPatrice Garver & Lynn Hawkins | 2 |
| 2019 | IACP conference Chicago | Conference pre and reg workshops | 10 |
| 2019 | Difficult Moments in Collaborative Cases | CPNVLynn Fletcher & Jennifer Bradley | 1.5 |
| 2019 | Collaborative Case Study | CPNVJennifer Bradley, Lynn Fletcher, and Lisa Herrick | 1.5 |
| 2019 | ASD/Neuro-diversity in the Family | CPNV: Jamell White, Ph.D., LCSW-C | 1.5 |
| 2018 | Working creatively with Conflict | Presenter w/ D. Beach/ D. Nachman | 2 |
| 2018 | VA Legislative and Case Law Update (11th VaCP) 11-12-18 | Christopher Macturk, JD | 1 |
| 2018 | UCLA Panel: What’s In It For Me? (11th VaCP) 11-12-18 | Del. David Toscano; Robert Merlin, PA; Teresa Cole, JD; and Cathleen Rea, PhD | 1.25 |
| 2018 | Support Redux: Navigating the New Tax Laws and the Emotional Challenges They Create for Spouses (and Teams) (11th VaCP) 11-12-18 | Sanford Cassel, PhD; Frank Morrison, JD; Gigi Robson, CPA, CDFA; and Paul Smollar, JD | 3.25 |
| 2018 | Divorce Through a Developmental Lens | Kate Scharff and Lisa Herrick | 1 |
| 2018 | Creative | Sue Soler LCSW/ Debbie May CPA Suzy Epstein JD | 1 |
| 2018 | Collab. TEAM protocols/How the team establishes an environment of thinking and reasoning | Christine Hissong/Mary Szpanka | 1 |
| 2018 | CMF Foundation Ethics/Mediation | Richmond VA | 4 |
| 2017 | Working Creatively w/ conflict | Gary Friedman.Jack Himmelstein/K.Miller | 40 |
| 2017 | Where are we now with Collaborative Divorce.? | A. Bonin/P. Palombi/P.Mollar | 1 |
| 2017 | What does Neutrality Looks Like? | Natalie Goldberg/L. Herrick | 1 |
| 2017 | Update on Divorce Option program | R. Hitlin Mason/c. Loy/C. Rowan | 1 |
| 2017 | Stop Driving a the End nges: Working Together to Resolve Disputesof your Hood | PGarver/M.McHugh.E. Schliefman | 1 |
| 2017 | IACP Conference-Philadelphia | various | 6 |
| 2017 | General Marketing Principals | Larry Rockwell | 1 |
| 2017 | Divorce Mediation 40 Hour Program Northwestern University | NW Professional Studies /Gibbons | 40 |
| 2017 | Creating the conditions of growth as help client with divorce process | Lisa Herrick/Kate Scharff | 6 |
| 2017 | Business Valuations in Collaborative Divorce | J.Bradley Erika Schliefman | 1 |
| 2016 | The challenges of substance abuse or addiction issues in collaborative | CPNV/Herrick/Bonin/Moher | 6 |
| 2016 | The Uniform Collaborative Law Act (UCLA) in Virginia. Should We Care? | CPNV/ O\'Brien/ White | 1 |
| 2016 | The Power of Empathy in Conflict Resolution | CPNV/Rowan | 1 |
| 2016 | Team Challenges: Working Together to Resolve Disputes | CPTI/3C Institute | 6 |
| 2016 | Round table discussion: marketing collaborative | CPNV/Moher/Hayden/Lee/Palombi | 1 |
| 2016 | Motivational interviewing and collaborative divorce | CPNV/ Goldberg/ Marks | 1 |
| 2016 | Is One Client Controlling the Team? | CPNV/ McHugh | 1 |
| 2016 | Effective Communication with Clients: Challenges Of Bearing the news /9th Annual Meeting | Marjorie Aaron . JD | 6 |
| 2016 | Discernment Counseling | CPNV/Hitlin-Mason | 1 |
| 2015 | When Clients and the Team Collide: Whose Case is it Anyway? | IACP/CDA | 1.5 |
| 2015 | Transforming Impasse from Problem into Opportunity | IACP/CDA | 3 |
| 2015 | Sherlock Holmes, Escher, Bach: Authentic Presence and the Art of Seeing | IACP/CDA | 1.5 |
| 2015 | It's All About the Frame: A Deeper Look at Conflict | IACP/CDA | 5 |
| 2015 | Ethical and practical considerations for Virginia collaborative law practice | CPNV/Hayden | 1 |
| 2015 | Creating the Conditions for Growth: Collaborative Divorce as a developmental experience | CDA/IACP/Herrick/Scharff | 5 |
| 2014 | VaCP 7th Annual Meeting/Adult attachment Style During Separation and divorce | VaCP/3C Institute Berger/Alexander | 6 |
| 2014 | The Basics of Divorce Law for Nonlawyers | DCAP/CPTI | 3 |
| 2014 | Collaborative Practice and the Human Brain | Tesler/3C Institute/DCACP | 6 |