Family Therapist & Coaches

Parenting with Désirée:

While attending Lynda’s free Sex Trafficking Prevention course, she said something that really stuck with me: Traffickers are listening and paying attention to what our kids need and they’re doing whatever it takes to meet our children’s needs. Traffickers are building safety and trust with our kids and making sure our kids feel seen, heard, and validated. I want to help YOU build safety and trust with your kids and make sure they feel seen, heard, and validated BY YOU so they aren’t so vulnerable and susceptible to traffickers and so your relationship with your kids is a strong, close, loving relationship you want it to be and they turn to YOU when they need something.

You can reach me at
parentingwithdesiree@outlook.com

Steven is a licensed independent clinical social worker who is a trainer, consultant and therapist for males with complex trauma. His expertise is in the area of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. He is the founder of the first free-standing program to serve commercially sexually exploited boys, adolescent males and trans youth in the United States.

His present professional work is with boys, adolescent males and men with a history of trauma, with a focus on sexual victimization. Steven is a trainer and consultant for the Office of Victims of Crime Human Trafficking Center, and the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center. He is a member of the United Nations Global Human Trafficking Task Force representing the needs of male victims internationally. Steven has taught and presented on the issues of male victimization nationally and internationally, consulting with various groups on the effects of male childhood sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation. He also works with non-profit groups on program development.

Steven has recently worked with Unitas North America on a prevention and education curriculum of commercial sexual exploitation to be administered in the New York City public school system. Steven has also served on the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Task Force on Human Trafficking.

Steven has worked with executive directors of AIDS service organizations on the design, implementation and evaluation of case management systems for DPH-funded programs in Massachusetts, developing coordinated services based on a continuum of care. Steven’s youth services experiences included working as an adolescent therapist and as a director of a youth shelter for runaway/homeless youth.

Steven is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.

Rosaland is a Divorce & Co-Parenting Coach, recognized as The Voice of Child-Centered Divorce. She is the founder of the Child-Centered Divorce Network, which provides valuable resources for parents who are facing, moving through or transitioning after a divorce. She is also the host of Divorce, Dating & Empowered Living Radio Show & Podcast and has written several books, courses and programs for divorced parents and singles starting over.