Michael Scott, LMFT

I must say, thanks to mediation and therapy with Michael, I’ve learned so many valuable lessons about being a healthy, loving parent for my child.
Michael showed me the ways of honoring my child’s right to be protected from both my and my ex’s interpersonal issues and debates. He taught us that it was so important to express our thoughts and feelings during these debates in private. Our children do not miss much!
Unfortunately, there is only so much we can guard them against and it was a constant battle to be sure my child was safe while she was in her other parents custody. It was also a constant struggle to help her understand her own value in the face of a dysfunctional, coercive co-​parent who would not take ownership for the impact their behavior might have to a little child.
One of the greatest compliments I’ve received as a parent was overhearing my child express how safe they felt with me knowing deep down how discordant my relationship was with their other parent must have been. Then conversely and unfortunately, how unsafe they felt with their other parent and how they were constantly having to stand up for me. A job no child should ever have to do.
I feel I owe a great debt of gratitude to Michael for teaching me these awarenesses, their impacts to small children and how to improve my own insights and consciousness. They’ve been one of my greatest resources in the continuing relationship I have with the most precious being in my life.

Save your money, go see someone else.
On my initial consultation with him, he worked on an «exercise» with my ex-​wife and myself in hopes of communicating for the sake of our children after our divorce.
Michael Scott started on physical boundaries and had us physically show our preferred space from each other when talking. He too did it with each of us, though with me he stated that the room was not big enough for his preferred distance from me, as he openly admitted that as a young boy since he was generally small that he was bullied by bigger kids.
Without even knowing me he admitted he has always been fearful of big people and was fearful of me. Yes, I am 6’4″ but I am a teddy bear of a man, very gentle and loving.
How can this person give consultations when he himself has issues from his past that is greatly tainting him today.
I foolishly went to a few more consultation in hopes that something could be accomplished, sadly nothing was.
Again, save your money see someone else.

Coercive and complacent. Scott told me we could negotiate from separate rooms because I did not want to be in the same room with my violent and manipulative ex husband. When I got there, Scott insisted we negotiate face to face, which was distressing for me. When I asked again for separate rooms, Scott became aggressive and angry.
Scott did something similar later. He insisted we bring our two children to a session about custody and then unexpectedly asked me to state in front of my children that I was there because I wanted to be there and everything we had agreed to was what I wanted. I am stickler about honesty with my kids and I refused to say that to them. He pressured me and I finally said that was not the case and I had been coerced. Scott took the kids out and then bullied me for 5 or 10 minutes. I still wouldn’t say it however. I was being coerced.
With mediators like this, who needs ex husbands?