Clinical work
Working With Families, Attorneys, and Courts
Clinical practice and consultation focused on couples, coparenting, parenting plans, developmental transition, family-centered dispute resolution, and accessible translation of research into practice.
Dr. Pruett has maintained a clinical practice since 1991, in which she has treated individual adults and children, couples, and families. She currently works exclusively with couples, individuals focused on parenting, or coparenting and managing life transitions for all family members. She specializes in working with those considering or in the midst of separating and divorcing, remarrying, or figuring out how to coparent during these and other life transitions.
She provides research and fact-based expert witness work for attorneys, has expertise in working on parenting plans for children of all ages including those under the age of five years, and is especially interested in helping couples divorce cooperatively for the benefit of their children.
One of Dr. Pruett’s passions is making research more accessible through curricular and continuing education programs for professionals from various disciplines. She speaks nationally and internationally, trains mental health and legal professionals, and disseminates her work through media presentations and guest interviews across electronic and print media.
Areas of focus
- Couples counseling and consultation
- Parenting and coparenting consultation
- Separation, divorce, remarriage, and related family transitions
- Parenting plans for children of all ages, including those under five
- Research/fact expert witness work and expert testimony for attorneys
- Cooperative divorce work centered on children’s well-being
- Clinical and organizational consultation for family-serving programs
Institutional Clients and Collaborations
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Deschutes County, OR Circuit Court Informal Domestic Relations Trial Pilot Program -
DPG Video PBS -
Family Resolutions Specialty Court, Hampshire County, MA (current) -
Henry A. Luce Foundation, New York (Youth at Risk Division) -
Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, Honoring Families Initiative
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Alberta Family Wellness Initiative, supported by the Palix Foundation
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ParentLab
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Quora -
Senior Consultant to OurFamilyWizard -
Sesame Workshop -
Sidwell Friends Middle School
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The Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan
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Tristar Pictures (child acting preparation)