Dr. Robin Deutsch provides consultation, mediation, and parenting coordination. She is Board certified in Couple and Family Psychology. She developed and was the director of the Center of Excellence for Children, Families and the Law at William James College, where she was a Professor (ret.) in the Clinical Psychology department.
Previously she was an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and for over 20 years Director of Training and Forensic Services in the Children and the Law Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a cofounder of Overcoming Barriers, an organization that provides family-centered services for families in conflict. Dr. Deutsch teaches internationally and has published extensively on issues related to parent-child contact problems, attachment, co-parenting after divorce, high conflict divorce, parenting plans, and parenting coordination.
She is the co-editor with Abigail Judge of the book Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems: Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, Alienation. Dr. Deutsch was the 2008-2009 President of the of Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). She is a fellow of APA, recipient of the MPA Kenneth D. Herman, Ph.D. J.D. Career Contribution Award, and the 2018 recipient of the AFCC John E. Van Duzer Distinguished Service Award.