Biographies of Members
Members
Biographies
John Borders
225 South Meramec, Suite 432TClayton, MO 63105
314-610-8100
1111@mcom.com
johnborders.com
John Borders is a psychotherapist specializing in divorce-related parent conflict, parent-child relation problems, couples, and families. He has provided and supervised clinical care for families and children for more than twenty years in a wide variety of mental health settings including public and private agencies, hospitals, residential facilities, schools, and independent practice.
His professional experience includes being Clinical Director of Kids In The Middle, where he provided and supervised divorce-related services to more than 300 families and 450 children annually, and the trauma-related treatment of more than 650 children in 23 St. Louis City elementary schools. At The Child Center, a diagnostic and variable-length intensive treatment facility, he treated children and families with severe relational problems. At Youth Emergency Service, John re-united runaway youth with their families. At DePaul Health Center, he treated acute-behavior children and their families on both an in-patient and out-patient basis. And at St. Louis Mental Health Center, a division of the Missouri Department of Mental Health, he worked with families to avoid the removal of children from their home.
John Borders earned an A.B. from Princeton University. He received an M.S.W. with a concentration in Family Studies from the George Warren Brown School at Washington University where he was awarded an Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship. He completed the Advanced Psychotherapy Program at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He is certified in both Levels I + II by the EMDR Institute. He has also been trained as a Divorce Mediator, Parenting Coordinator, and Collaborative Divorce Mental Health Professional & Child Specialist. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
John has been a member of the Psychiatric Diversion Team of the Division of Children & Family Services of the Missouri Department of Social Services and a member of the Executive Committee of Princeton University’s Alumni Council. He has also been a Clinical Field Instructor for graduate students at Washington University and St. Louis University. He is currently on the Planning Committee of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in St. Louis, and on the Board of the Collaborative Family Law Association in St. Louis.
David Clark, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist15510 Olive Boulevard, Suite 206
St. Louis, MO 63017
636-537-8222
636-537-8223 (fax)
dbc_Ph.D.@msn.com
www.psyris.com/davidclark
www.linkedin.com/in/davidclarkphd
Dr. David Clark is a clinical and forensic psychologist in independent practice in Chesterfield, Missouri. For nearly 30 years, Dr. Clark has worked with families before, during and after divorce. He has seen divorce and its impacts on people -- both growth-promoting and not -- from many perspectives. Dr. Clark’s professional roles in divorces include child therapist, adult therapist, couples therapist, family therapist, mediator, parenting coordinator, court-appointed evaluator, privately-retained expert witness, confidential trial consultant to attorneys, and coach to divorcing parents. Dr. Clark has seen children and parents through hundreds of divorces. His goals are to help children and parents cope with divorce's many stresses with minimal negative impact on their functioning, to help them look for and make use of the opportunities for growth that divorce often presents, to help families heal and reorganize after divorce to best meet children's and parents' needs, and to help courts make the best decisions for families when parents cannot agree.
Dr. Clark's formal education and training included a B.A. from Emory University, M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University (a program then known for exceptional psychotherapy training), a Clinical Psychology internship at The Ohio State University Medical Center, and a postdoctoral fellowship in Family and Child Clinical Psychology at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Clark was further educated by invaluable life experiences between undergraduate and graduate school including service as a VISTA (now known as Americorps) volunteer, a stint in the Army including a tour in Viet Nam, and experience as a mental health technician in a state mental hospital.
After entering independent practice in 1983, Dr. Clark held an adjunct faculty position in the Psychology department at Washington University in St. Louis for nearly 30 years, was a consultant to Youth In Need (a United Way agency serving families in crisis) for several years, and was on the faculty of the Family Therapy Institute of St. Louis for a few years. Dr. Clark received training in divorce mediation and is an approved mediator for the St. Louis County Family Court. He also completed training to become a parenting coordinator. Dr. Clark frequently is appointed by courts to conduct psychological and custody evaluations in family law matters and frequently is retained by attorneys as an evaluator, expert witness or trial consultant. He has been privileged to be invited to give many seminars and lectures to attorney and mental health professional associations on best practices and ethical standards for clinical and forensic mental health professionals in family law matters.
Barbra Danin, LMFT, ATR
800 Bonhomme Aveune, Suite 414St. Louis, MO 63105
314-477-8585
bdanin@sbcglobal.net
Barbra Danin received her Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and Clinical Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Missouri. For over 20 years she has provided individual and group counseling to youth, families, and adults in a variety of settings, including schools, clinics, day treatment programs, hospitals, and the Family Court of St. Louis County. She has practiced in Los Angeles, Jerusalem, Pennsylvania, and St. Louis. Her areas of expertise include treatment of behavior problems, relationship issues, family conflicts, depression, anxiety, and communication difficulties.. When appropriate, Art Therapy is incorporated into treatment in order to facilitate communication and self-expression. Ms. Danin has lectured throughout the United States and internationally on issues of mental health treatment. She is currently in private practice in Clayton Missouri.
Lisa Emmenegger, Ph.D.
7750 Clayton Road, Suite 204St. Louis, MO 63117
314-821-1557
lremmenegger@gmail.com
Lisa has been a psychologist in private practice in the St. Louis area since 1989. She was formerly a staff clinician at Masters & Johnson Institute, and continued in private practice to see couples and individuals with sexual concerns. Her practice primarily involves psychological evaluations of individuals (children and adults) involved with the courts and/or the Children’s Division related to abuse/neglect issues, as well as providing assessments for the court related to sexual offending issues (adolescents and adults). She was also a member of the State of Missouri Child Abuse, Neglect and Custody Commission, November 2001 though August 2004.
Warren A. Kass, Ph.D.
14377 Woodlake Drive, Suite 308Chesterfield, MO 63017
314-576-6493
Warren A. Kass, Ph.D. is a senior level psychologist who earned his doctorate in 1973 from St. Louis University. Dr. Kass has been working with families, children and adolescents for 30 plus years. He sees individuals and families from the St. Louis metropolitan area at offices in West and South St. Louis County. He has experience working with couples in conflict, divorcing couples, domestic violence and abused children and adolescents. He works with attorneys in matters of custody and parenting plans. He has served as an expert witness in child custody matters.
Margaret Rissman, Ph.D.
2025 South Brentwood, Suite 200Brentwood, MO 63144
314-962-0008
Margaret W. Rissman, Ph.D., has been licensed as a psychologist/health service provider in the state of Missouri since 1980. She has a full private practice specializing in family therapy with children and their parents, especially in divorce situations, mediation with divorcing parents about custody, and individual work with children and adolescents. She also works with young adults experiencing anxiety, depression, or relationship issues, or who have been the victims of abuse, and with older adults maximizing their lives in their later years.
Dr. Rissman received her doctorate in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1976. Her first job was as faculty in the psychology department at SIU-Edwardsville. After four years, she left SIUE to do what she now amusedly calls her "field experience", the raising of her own three children, while teaching part time at UMSL and at Fontbonne College. Dr. Rissman stayed home with her children, part or full time, for about 7 years.
In 1985, Dr. Rissman returned to work at the Family Resource Center, doing home-based family therapy and psychological evaluations in families referred by the state for severe emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse. In l987, she became a staff psychologist at the then St. Louis County Juvenile Court (now part of the Family Court) working with adolescents under adjudication for status and criminal offenses and their families, and conducting psychological evaluations in contested custody litigation. She went into full time private practice in 1989. For 11 years, from 1994 to 2005, she was a part-time counselor for young adults and staff at a local private college.
Dr. Rissman has a long history of referral by the courts and family law attorneys in high conflict divorce situations.
Rosalyn Schultz, Ph.D.
7711 Bonhomme Avenue, Suite 800Clayton, MO 63105
314-862-8070
Rosalyn Schultz, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist with a clinical and forensic private practice in St. Louis (Clayton), Missouri. Her clinical expertise includes providing individual, couples, and family therapy for divorce-related issues as well as parenting coordination. She is an approved mediator for the St. Louis County Family Court. Her forensic expertise includes child custody evaluations and a developmental approach for parenting plans. Dr. Schultz completed her doctorate in 1979 at St. Louis University. She has provided expert witness testimony in family, juvenile, civil, and criminal proceedings. Dr. Schultz has authored articles in peer reviewed journals and book chapters, including several articles on evaluating mental health expert testimony in child sexual abuse cases. She assisted in developing the model judicial education curriculum, Adjudication Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse When Custody is in Dispute, sponsored by the National Judicial Education Program and the American Bar Association, and presented the curriculum to judges in the U.S. and Canada. She has also conducted seminars on a variety of topics for attorneys, judges, and mental health professionals.
Dr. Schultz has served on the Board of Directors for Kids In The Middle since 2008 and is a member of the program committee. She served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Child Abuse and Neglect Review Board (2002-2009). Dr. Schultz is a member of the St. Louis Collaborative Family Law Association and a former board member for Citizens for Missouri’s Children and the Child Resource Center Advisory Board of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. Professional memberships include the American Psychological Association, Missouri Psychological Association, St. Louis Psychological Association, and the American College of Forensic Psychology. She is a founding member of Missouri’s Association of Family & Conciliation Courts (AFCC) and serves on its St. Louis planning committee.
Rosette M. Signorelli, ACSW, LCSW
7750 Clayton Rd. Ste. 204St. Louis, Missouri 63117
314-644-3366
314-781-4883 (fax)
www.rosettesignorelli.com
Divorce is incredibly painful, but a potentially transformative process unlike any other life transition. Because it is so extreme in consequences to everyone, not just the couple, but the children, extended family and friends, it can lead to either decades of hostility or respectful renegotiation of once valued relationships. “There is [an art] to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over — and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying it value.” (Ellen Goodman)
Rosette Signorelli married a divorced man with two children from a prior marriage in 1981. That was her first introduction to the effects of divorce on everyone, along with entering a remarriage, and growing a stepfamily. Years later, after giving birth to three children, she experienced divorce directly. Her personal experience and recovery empathically informs her therapeutic work with men, women, and children on the divorce and remarriage path. Her practice is devoted to peaceful collaboration and education regarding all issues of divorce.
Her mission is to compassionately and intuitively collaborate with her clients to attain peace of mind, build self-confidence, discover core issues, practice mindfulness, and use gentle realignment processes to inspire a journey toward a passionate life. She celebrates the courage and heroism of her remarkable clients.
Lee S. Streett, MA, LPC
128 Dickson StreetSt.Louis, MO 63122
314-922-3602
Lee Streett, MA, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has worked in the Mental Health field for 26 years. Her expertise is in working with children and families experiencing a separation, divorce or remarriage. She also offers counseling to clients with issues involving grief and loss, anxiety, depression, marital or relationship problems and parenting concerns. Lee has been in private practice since 2002 serving adults, adolescents, children, families, and couples.
Lee worked at the nonprofit agency “Kids In the Middle, Inc” for 24 years as a therapist, and for 10 years, the Clinical Director. She led weekly children’s groups, provided individual and family therapy for children and parents, led parent education classes and groups for step-parents. As Clinical Director, she oversaw and created numerous programs offered by the agency. She supervised staff therapists, graduate interns and volunteers. She also provided mediation services for parents.
Lee received a BA degree from Brown University. After time out to raise her family, she received her Masters in Counseling from Webster University in 1986 and her Missouri state license in counseling in 1998. She completed a 3 year training course in Marriage and Family Therapy from the Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences. She continues to participate in a monthly supervision group with participants of this program. She received training and certification in Divorce Mediation in 2002 .
Lee’s other professional experience includes work at Life Crisis Services where she provided counseling, referral, and suicide assessment on crisis phone lines and as a volunteer for Court Appointed Special Advocates, St. Louis where she was an independent advocate for abused and neglected children. She is a member of the Collaborative Family Law Association of St. Louis serving as a Mental Health Coach and a Child Specialist. Lee has been on several boards including the St. Louis Counseling Association, the Psychoanalytic Institute, the Coalition for the Environment, and the Junior Board of the St. Louis Art Museum.
Nancy Williger, MSW, Ph.D.
225 South Meramec, Suite 432TClayton, MO 63105
314-993-4001
nawilliger@aol.com
Dr. Williger has been in private practice since 1977 in St. Louis, MO. She has extensive training in family and marital therapy, family mediation, and collaborative divorce practice. In her practice, she specializes in couples therapy, divorce and post-divorce therapy with children and adults. She also does custody evaluations, parenting coordination, consultation about developmentally appropriate post-divorce parenting plans, and participates as a coach and child specialist in collaborative divorces.
Dr. Williger obtained her MSW from the University of Southern California in 1973. After working in the Child/Adolescent Unit of a Community Mental Health Center in California for several years, she moved to St. Louis. She worked as a psychiatric social worker at Deaconess Hospital and as Clinical Director at Family Resource Center. She attended St. Louis University to obtain her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1987.
In addition to memberships in the American Psychological Association and St. Louis Psychological Association, she is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and a member of the St. Louis Collaborative Family Law Association and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. She is a frequent presenter for the Missouri Bar Association, Family Law Section and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts local and statewide events. She is an approved trainer for the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and is on the Board of the St. Louis Collaborative Family Law Association. Recently, she has presented about family law at the local and the national conventions of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the national convention of the Academy of Collaborative Professionals. She is a past board member of Kids in the Middle. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Mitrata Nepal Foundation for Children a child sponsorship program helping children in Kathmandu, Nepal.