Allyson Tomchin earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from University of South Florida in 1992 and her Masters Degree in Social Work from Barry University in 1993. She is an LCSW, a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator, a Qualified Parenting Coordinator and a business owner. She has worked in the public sector for ten years in various areas. She began her career as an outpatient counselor at Broward Addiction Recovery Center, BARC. At age 25 she has the opportunity to take a grant off of paper and into real life by creating Cool School a Gang Prevention program on South Beach. This was a joint venture with Barry University, Miami Dade County Public Schools, the State Attorney General’s Office and the Miami Beach Police Department. She along with her colleagues were able to make Cool School a 501 ©(3) and ran it successfully for several years. She remained at Fienberg Fisher Elementary School and ran the Full Service School offering and coordinating health, mental health, day care, case management, afterschool activities, and special needs testing for 900+ families. She has supervised both BSW and MSW students from Barry University, FIU and FSU. She took a brief sabbatical and worked in the roofing industry crafting her grant writing skills in the private sector by writing training manuals for innovative roofing products. Following that she opened Directive Energy and since 2003 she has served hundreds of individuals, groups and couples. She provides Solution Focus counseling services for individuals 12 and up. In addition to the counseling practice she works as a Parenting Coordinator in the field of high conflict divorce assisting with co-parenting efforts and drawing up Parenting Plans. She trains professionals on how to be Parenting Coordinators and is one of only two trainers approved by the Florida Supreme Court to do so. She is an avid public speaker, a contributor to South Florida Parenting Magazine, a past co-host of 3 Loud Women an internet talk show, a past Board member of NAWBO, The National Association of Women Business Owners, a past President of Sisterhood at Temple Solel , has served on the Florida Bar Grievance Committee and she is currently a proud Adjunct Professor of Social Work at FAU. She lives, works and plays with her family in Hollywood Florida.