Reunification Training for Attorneys, July 11, 2025

Trainer

Dr. Jeremiah Stokes is a psychotherapist, professor, consultant and author. His clinical experience spans over a decade, where he has provided mental health services in a number of different clinical settings including hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, community agencies and private practice. Dr. Stokes currently serves as owner and clinical director of Stokes Counseling and Consulting, which is an outpatient therapy center where nearly 20 mental health professionals provide services to people on the full continuum of the lifecycle, including children, adolescents, couples and families. Dr. Stokes has dedicated some of his personal clinical expertise to assisting families going through high conflict divorce and other challenging family dynamics related to separation, blended families, and co-parenting. Of these services, Reunification Therapy is a particular area of passion and focus. In addition to his own personal clinical practice, he also provides supervision and consultation for various mental health professionals.

In addition to clinical services, Dr. Stokes also has a passion for teaching and has served in various roles as a college professor. However, currently, he serves as a supporting faculty member at Rollins College, where he teaches in the counseling program. Dr. Stokes has written and published in academic journals, textbook chapters and other scholarly works. He also wrote and published a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum for middle and high school students.

For his training on Reunification Therapy- Dr. Stokes will guide clinicians and other professionals on best-practices in Reunification Therapy. This will include, but is not limited to: case formulation in reunification work; understanding the role of the professional and practical application of various roles; assessing, evaluating and diagnosing various personal and family psychopathologies; specific focus on working with children, the primary time-sharing parent and the parent being reunified; fostering effective co-parenting; identifying and managing parental alienation; the utilization of attachment theory in reunification work; solution-focused interventions; ethics and boundaries; managing psycho-legal components; and other dynamics of reunification work. Dr. Stokes will engage participants through various learning modalities including: didactic instruction, group engagement, role play and analyses of real case scenarios. Participants will walk away from this training with a conceptual framework of reunification therapy, and direct skills and practical applications for this modality.