Facilitators

NAN WALLER BURNETT, M.A.

Mediator/Facilitator

Nan Waller Burnett is a dynamic facilitator, award winning author, transformative high conflict mediator, psychotherapist, conflict systems design consultant, executive conflict coach, educator and a founding partner in Dispute Resolution Professionals, LLC, established in 1997 in the Denver metropolitan area.  An expert in high conflict family systems and multiparty complex workplace disputes, she was trained as a mediator at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation in 1995.  She was trained in Transformative Mediation in the USPS program in 1998.   Nan is a specialist in marital and high conflict mediation.  She accepts Parent Coordination/Decision Maker cases on a limited basis.  She has been on the faculty at Regis University since 1998.   She has mediated over 3500 cases.  Nan holds the Advanced Practitioner status in the Workplace, Training and Family Sections of the Association for Conflict Resolution and is a member of MDIC and the American Bar Association - Dispute Resolution Section. In 1997, Nan served as Citizens' Ambassador to Russia and Poland for Mediation.  She served on founding board for Mediators Beyond Borders and has presented on their behalf in 11 countries.


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JODI HARDESTY, MA, NCC, EMDR

Facilitator

Jodi Hardesty is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Nationally Certified Counselor and has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education: Couples and Family track. She is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a highly effective trauma and anxiety symptom reduction tool. As a Psychotherapist she works with individuals, couples, and families. She specializes in conflict resolution and trauma and anxiety reduction. In addition she is experienced in working with co-parenting and step parenting situations. Currently she is an instructor for the In the Best Interest of the Children class for individuals learning to co-parent while divorced. Jodi also provides training's for individuals and couples who want to become a more effective communicators.

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phone number: 303-704-8361

CARA BRADLEY, MA, MED

Facilitator

Cara is a professional in emotional regulation coaching, communication skills, conflict management, and mediation. Her passion for improving individual’s life experience spans 25 years of practice and teaching. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in neuropsychology from Metropolitan University of Denver and her Master of Arts degree from Regis University, Denver in Communication and Conflict Management.

The teaching of Co-Parenting classes span 8 years, in the Greater Denver area and for the County of Boulder. She specializes in communication skills, de-escalation with compassion and focus on the needs of the children involved.

Cara has worked in the field of inter and intra-personal conflict for over 20 years, specializing in emotional regulation coaching, mediation and training for adolescents, families and government agencies.. She is also passionately connected and working with local CASA organizations (Court Appointed Special Advocates for abused and neglected children). As an instructor, Cara has taught courses which include: Utilizing Motivational Interviewing in Conflict, The Neuropsychology of Suicidality, Overcoming Implicit Bias in Conflict and Mediation, Emotional Regulation and Flexibility, Coaching Utilizing Post Traumatic Strength Focus, among many more. These courses have been taught to both private and government agencies.
 

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phone number: 303-817-5511

CYNDI BIXLER MCCORMICK, BA

Facilitator

Cyndi Bixler McCormick has been a practicing counselor and facilitator for Divorce Recovery in the Denver, Littleton and Highlands Ranch area since 1999. In addition to her class facilitating and personal counseling experience with single parents and married couples in crisis, she is an experienced educator, with a BA in early childhood education through 8th grade, with an emphasis in music therapy. Cyndi is a co-writer of several parenting books, writer of several published parent magazine articles, and most recently, co-author of the book, Dill Pickle Love, What Love Really Is and Is Not, for divorced parents, single parents, or engaged or married couples. Her and her husband Paul are co-founders of a non- profit organization, where they counsel couples and single parents in a vast area of needs, including communication skills, forgiveness issues, conflict resolution, and in establishing non-negotiables and love language skills for couples.

Cyndi is currently an instructor for In the Best Interests of the Children parenting class with DRP, where she is passionate about helping parents grow, recover and excel through the trauma of divorce.

MONICA X. PADILLA, MA, LPC

Facilitator

Monica Padilla received her Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling from Denver Seminary and is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in providing therapeutic service to marginalized communities of color.  Monica has provided bilingual therapy services for 10 plus years, primarily in community mental health centers working with a high percentage of Latino individuals and families.  Monica has recently started private practice, “Mi Mariposa Counseling, LLC” where she will continue to provide accessible and multicultural competent services to the community.  She is presently in training to be able to provide EMDR (Eye Movement and Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy to individuals having experienced trauma.  Monica is very excited to have the opportunity to be a facilitator for Dispute Resolution Professionals and to be able to communicate with families in their native language and with cultural sensitivity the importance of acting “In the Best Interest of the Children”.

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phone number: 720-327-2056
website: www.mimariposacounseling.com

MILES E. DAVIES, J.D.

Mediator/Facilitator

Miles E. Davies, JD has been a practicing mediator and arbitrator in the Denver area since 1996. Mr. Davies has mediated in excess of 2000 cases in the areas of Domestic Relations, Employment, Business and Personal Injury. In addition to his mediation and arbitration practice, Mr. Davies is also an educator at the graduate and undergraduate levels, teaching Conflict Resolution courses for the University of Colorado at Denver.

 

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phone number: 303-733-2047
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C.J. LARKIN, J.D., M.A.

Mediator/Facilitator

As a partner at DRP, C.J. provides mediation, meeting facilitation, training and co-parenting educational services. She is a licensed attorney in Missouri and is a member of the Colorado Bar Association. C.J. has over 25 years of experience as an attorney, mediator, meeting facilitator, trainer and educator. She has extensive experience in educational, employment, environmental, family, multi-cultural and large public issue conflict resolution. C.J. has provided 40-hour mediator training to numerous attorneys, social workers, managers and government officials nationally and internationally. C.J. has taught negotiation, mediation and arbitration and supervised law students providing mediation services for 20 years.

C.J. is the Director of the Mediation Practicum at Sturm College of Law, University of Denver, where she trains and supervises law student mediators in small claims court in Denver County Court, Adams County Court and between consumers and businesses at the Better Business Bureau.

 

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phone number: 314-630-3732

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MOLLIE T. MARTIN, LCSW

Facilitator

Mollie received her Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University in New York City. She currently works as part of the Mental Health team for the Cherry Creek School District. She works full time as the mental health provider at Mission Viejo Elementary. Clinically, she has specialized training in early childhood trauma, chemical dependency/recovery, grief and loss, and numerous interventions designed for the school setting. In her current job, Mollie has conducted groups for the children of Divorce as part of a school setting for the past 12 years. Mollie is thrilled to be a facilitator for Dispute Resolutions Professionals' "In the Best Interest of the Child" as it gives her an opportunity to interface her experience as a child advocate in the schools with her passion to reach out in support of parents navigating the waters of learning to co-parent.

CHARLIE PACELLO, M.A.

Facilitator

Charles Pacello is a dynamic speaker, life coach, teacher, counselor, actor, author, and humanitarian. He received his Individualized Masters of Arts Degree from Goddard College in 2017, an intensive study combining psychology and theater, and developed an innovative, in-depth, multi-disciplinary approach to healing the invisible wounds of PTSD, trauma, and abuse. An expert in healing PTSD, trauma, depression, and other stress-related issues that emerge from conflict and violence, he works with individuals and groups to provide them with the tools them need to heal, renew, and transform. An Air Force veteran and graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, he currently presides as Secretary for the Board of Directors of Soldier’s Heart (www.soldiersheart.net), a non-profit organization to help veterans make the return journey home, and is a facilitator of the Los Angeles based non-profit, the Mindful Warrior Project (www.mindfulwarriorproject.org). Charlie is thrilled to have the opportunity to facilitate the class, “In the Best Interests of the Children”, for DRP, as it gives him the opportunity to share valuable insights learned from his own personal experiences with separation and divorce, with his passion to help parents heal, grow, and become the empowered individuals they need to be for their children.

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phoone number: 310-722-6562
website: www.charliepacello.com