• Jessica S. Rothberg, Esq. has been in private practice as a family and divorce mediator for over 20 years and has extensive mediation and collaborative practice training from the Center for Family and Divorce Mediation, The Ackerman Institute for the Family, and Center for Understanding in Conflict. Jessica is an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, an Accredited Member of the NY State Council on Divorce Mediation, a member of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators, the NY Association of Collaborative Professionals and the LGBTQI Professionals of NYC.
  Jessica dedicates much of her professional career to training and mentoring aspiring mediators and collaborative practitioners through independent apprenticeships and has also served as a panelist and/or guest lecturer at various mediation and collaborative trainings throughout New York.

• Teresa Calabrese, Esq. is a mediator and collaborative lawyer concentrating her practice on serving the Queer community. Teresa assists individuals, couples and families in creating agreements relating to relationship formation, family building, and separation and divorce. Teresa also handles second parent adoption matters and provides basic estate planning services. Teresa has facilitated legal informational workshops for the CUNY School of Law Community Legal Resource Network, LGBT Community Services Center, Queens Public Library and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. 
  Teresa has presented LGBTQI legal informational programs for the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals and the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation. Teresa is a founding member of the LGBTQI Family Professionals of NYC and the Co-Chair of the Family and Matrimonial Committee of LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York.  She is also a member of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, and the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation.

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• Barbara Rothberg, DSW, LCSW has been working as a couple and family therapist for 40 years. She received her MSW in social work from Adelphi University and her DSW in Social Work from Hunter, City University Graduate School. She is certified as a Family Therapist through a Post-Masters Training Program at Hunter School of Social Work. She has received numerous trainings from The Family Institute of Westchester, the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals, and the Center for Mediation in Law.
  In her private practice, Barbara has specialized in working with divorcing couples. Barbara has led workshops at many conferences on issues in family therapy, couple therapy and divorce. She taught Couples Treatment courses at the graduate schools of both Hunter and NYU Schools of Social Work for more than twenty years. She is a member of NYACP, FDMC, AFCC, NYSCDM, NADP and the LGBTQI Family Professionals in NYC. Barbara also works as a mediator, parent coordinator and family specialist consulting with marital attorneys. She aims to help couples resolve their relationship issues with dignity and work together positively as co-parents. For FamilyKind, Barbara is a parenting coordinator and coach.