She is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Appell has over 30 years of experience working as a psychotherapist with children, adults, couples and families. In addition to her general psychotherapy practice, Dr. Appell specializes in working with separating or divorced families as parenting coordinator, parenting plan mediator, divorce coach or child custody evaluator. She provides consultations to attorneys and individuals regarding parental alienation an high conflict divorce cases and has served as an expert witness. Dr. Appell is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and other seminars. She is the author of Divorce Doesn’t Have to Be That Way: A Handbook for the Helping Professional. (Impact Publishers, 2006). SiteMap