Dr. Ben Garber is a
New Hampshire licensed,
PsyPact¹-qualified psychologist.

Dr. Garber's long-standing commitment is to help parents, schools, agencies and the courts to better understand and serve the needs of children.

Dr. Garber's practice is limited to Court-related (i.e., forensic) services including individual and family-system evaluations, peer consultation and supervision, work-product review, attorney consultation, and educating the court in the role of expert witness.

Expert Consultation Putting family dynamics and children's needs in the context of the science and the law. As a seasoned children's advocate, a recognized international expert in family law, and the author of numerous groundbreaking works in the field, Dr. Garber is uniquely able to translate the psychobabble and make the science make sense. Dr. Garber has consulted to counsel and provided expert testimony across the United States and around the world.

Family Law Training Dr. Garber's experience spanning forty years publishing, evaluating, consulting, testifying, and innovating on behalf of children makes him uniquely qualified to meet your group's professional needs for up-to-date, practical, engaging, and provocative education. Dr. Garber is well-known for his ability to make complex theory and complicated practice into common sense, practical basics.

Peer Consultation Working in family law is hard. The system moves slowly and often unpredictably. Children's lives are at stake. Peer consultation is among the best ways to mitigate compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burn-out. Dr. Garber works with peers across guilds and jurisdictions to broaden perspectives, adopt new tools, stay current with the science and the law, better understand and serve children's needs, and to make self-care a priority.

Publications Dr. Garber is a compulsive writer. He has published hundreds of popular press articles, more than thirty  peer-reviewed and law review professional works, numerous chapters in foundational professional volumes, ten books on topics in child and family development, divorce, family law practice, and the dynamics of the conflicted family system, and a popular novel about the twisted dynamics of high conflict divorce (learn about "Twisted Allies" here).

DEFUSEdivorce.com Custody litigants are forced to trust a system that shuffles them from hearing to evaluation to intervention to motion endlessly. The resulting anxiety compounds conflict, fuels antagonism, and harms children. DEFUSEdivorce.com makes the custody litigation process make sense. We give litigating parents and their allies a road map so that the process becomes predictable, anxiety is diminished, and resolution becomes possible in each child's best interests. Take back control. Visit DEFUSEdivorce.com today.

Children come first. More than anything, Dr. Garber works to focus the complexities of family relationships, the science of psychology, and the rigor of the law on the needs of each child.

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