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Portnoy Associates - Psychologists Helping Divorce Lawyers.
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About Portnoy Associates
Portnoy Associates is dedicated to reducing the chaos of the divorce process that comes from the intense emotionality of divorcing individuals. By doing this, we believe that successful legal outcomes can occur more quickly, with less stress on the professionals and their clients, less exposure of lawyers to the actions that result from client dissatisfaction, and less damage to the families of divorce. We believe that it is possible to construct a more humane legal course that reduces turmoil and promotes welfare.
One important step in creating such a system is to give the professionals the necessary tools to accomplish these goals. If those involved on the "front lines" of divorce are skilled in helping their clients to remain calm, contain their feelings, and remain more directed, we will have succeeded in beginning the humanization of the process.
Fifteen years ago Dr.Portnoy became interested in how clients’ emotions interact with steps in the divorce process when he joined an organization outside of Boston, Massachusetts called The Divorce Center Inc. The Divorce Center is a collaborative volunteer group of mental health professionals, attorneys, mediators, financial planners, and others who work with divorcing individuals. Its primary goal is to provide low-cost public education on issues of divorce. During his early days with the association, Dr. Portnoy observed how many of his lawyer colleagues talked about the emotional difficulties of their clients and how it complicated the lawyer’s ability to represent the client successfully. It was clear that matrimonial lawyers faced many of the same challenges that trained psychotherapists did, but without the benefit of training in how to manage emotions, and with the added disadvantage that it was not their purpose in the first place. As a result of these observations, Dr. Portnoy began to research the intricacies of lawyer-client relationships during the divorce process. He began to write about his findings and to teach groups of lawyers how to address the emotions of their clients to make them less interfering. The culmination of this research and teaching was the publication in 2000 of his book, The Family Lawyers Guide to Building Successful Client Relationships (Family Law Section, American Bar Association). Portnoy Associates now offers a variety of services to professionals working within the family law system and to divorcing clients to help them achieve a calmer, more focused process.
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- Portnoy, Sanford
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- WABAN MA
- US 02468-1024
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- 617.965.2147
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