Peggy Thompson

Dr. Thompson. is a founder and co-director of Collaborative Divorce Associates in Orinda California. And a co- founder of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and of Collaborative Divorce Trainings. She has been a licensed psychologist for 32 years specializing in treating children and families. For over twenty years she has been intensely involved in the divorce process in such roles as custody evaluator, special master and high conflict counselor. During the last fifteen years Dr. Thompson has been leading the development of the Collaborative Divorce process. She started teaching the collaborative divorce process in 1997 and contributed to the ongoing evolution of the process since. She is currently offering trainings live online as an affordable way for mental health professionals to gain a better understanding of the roles they can play to help families through Collaborative Practice.

Dr. Thompson is co-author (with Dr. A. Rodney Nurse) of "Collaborative Divorce: A Humane, interdisciplinary Approach," a chapter in Innovations in Practice: A Source Book (L. Vande Creek, Ed.),Resources Press in January of 2000. and Collaborative Divorce: A New, Interdisciplinary Approach American Journal of Family Law Vol 13 (1999) Dr. Thompson is also a co-author of Divorce: A Problem to be Solved, Not a Battle to be Fought, (Brookwood ,1997) Dr. Thompson is co- author of Collaborative Divorce : A Family Center approach ,a professional guide to collaborative divorce model to be published by APA with an anticipated pub Fall 2009 and co author with Pauline Tesler of Collaborative Divorce, Harper Collins (June 06 )