Barbara ter Haar

Barbara ter Haar, MSW, LCSW

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Biography
With over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist, Barbara specializes in helping children, adolescents and their families through her own private practice in Richmond, Virginia. She completed her undergraduate work at St Mary's College and Notre Dame in Indiana in 1984, and received her Masters in Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University in Clinical Social Work in 1986. Barbara completed Collaborative Divorce Law training in Denver Colorado and participates in the team model as a Child and Family Communication Specialist. She is trained as a Mediator. She teaches coparenting and individualized co-parenting for separated parents.

Barbara provides a range of professional services for clients and attorneys, including as a:
-- Voice for a child when an expert witness is needed to represent the child's best interests
-- Neutral child "advocate" in the divorce process.
-- Co-parenting counselor and parenting plan coordinator.
-- Parent Coach and Child Specialist in the Collaborative Divorce journey.

Barbara can also be available as a resource between the therapeutic and legal communities where there is a need to find a positive fit between clients' needs and legal goals.