Mary Elizabeth Lund, Ph.D. has a practice in West Los Angeles focused on mediation of parenting plans, co-parenting counseling to develop communication and cooperation, and coaching in collaborative divorce. She is a Past President of the California Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and has been a member of Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association since its inception. For 30 years, performed custody evaluations and served as an expert witness in court. As the custody evaluator liaison member of the Family Law Executive Committee of the L.A. County Bar for 12 years, she frequently organized and spoke at the annual interdisciplinary Los Angeles Custody Colloquium. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA, and received a U.S. National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral research grant to study effects of divorce on children at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, England. From 2005 through 2015 she was a frequent co-trainer with a team of experienced Family Law judicial officers in the seminar for incoming Family Law judicial officers through California Center for Judicial Education (CJER). She participated with Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D., Jeffrey Rowe, M.D., and Hon. Mark Juhas in developing the CJER video series, “Basic Child Development and Effects of Domestic Violence on Children for Juvenile and Family Court Judicial Officers.” She has co-taught mediation courses with noted authors Ken Cloke, J.D. and Forrest Mosten, J.D., including courses at the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law. Her articles include “The place for custody evaluations in family peacemaking,” Family Court Review, 2015, “Assessing children’s perceptions of family relationships: An interactive instrument for use in custody disputes,” J. Child Custody, 2010, and other original research and clinical articles on effects of divorce on children, parental alienation, divorced fathers, custody evaluations, and mediation.