Our Purpose
We help families discover the benefits of collaborative solutions for marriage dissolution, child custody and co-parenting issues, division of assets and more.
Susan J Buniva, MSW, LCSW is a therapist and Collaborative Law Divorce Coach in private practice for over 40 years. She works with individuals, couples, families, and organizations, helping them move through transitions in their lives with greater ease, satisfaction, meaning, and success. She has been working in the collaborative community since 2009 and completed the 2-year Leadership Academy of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. In 2021 she published a book about co-parenting. She enjoys reading, writing poetry, and sharing time with her husband and dog in her time off.
Sanford Cassel works as both a child specialist and a collaborative coach. He is committed to helping children, adolescents and adults clarify, and remove, impediments to realizing their own dreams and desires. Sanford is also committed to the collaborative goal of helping each family member feel heard and respected, regardless of age or status. He feels this is most effectively accomplished through developing each person’s own effective voice, and through advocating for his/her interests, and the interests of his/her family as a whole, within the collaborative team.
Lynne Einhaus is passionate about working with divorcing couples as a Collaborative Coach. She is committed to helping families heal and create their best solutions as they transition through divorce into life after divorce. During this challenging life passage, Lynne can work with you so that you can communicate and negotiate more effectively, manage strong emotions and make changes to significantly improve your life. In addition, she can help you and your partner make informed parenting decisions, so that you can lovingly and skillfully minimize your children’s pain and grief, while providing the support they need.
As a licensed clinical psychologist, Lynne has extensive education and experience in helping individuals, couples and families identify and develop the tools and strategies they need to negotiate major life challenges, including separation and divorce. She has particular expertise in grief counseling, cognitive-behavioral interventions (including improving communication and conflict-resolution abilities) and mindfulness within the context of marital and family relationships.
Undergraduate Education
BA from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 1975
Postgraduate Education
MA in Clinical Psychology from Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio 1981
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 1984
Clinical Internship at Virginia Treatment Center for Children, Richmond, Virginia 1984
Resident in Clinical Psychology, Charter Westbrook Hospital, Richmond, Virginia 1985-1986
Professional Education
Continuing Education Units for Licensed Clinical Psychologists maintained
Dr. Gasper is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in working with children, adolescents, and families of divorce. She specializes in co-parenting counseling, child therapy, and reunification therapy. She also has special interests in working with children experiencing anxiety and trauma disorders. Dr. Gasper received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She received both her Masters of Science and Ph.D. in Child Clinical Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Gasper is also trained in the collaborative divorce model, serving as a Child Specialist and Divorce Coach. She is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), Virginia Collaborative Professionals (VaCP), and her local practice group Collaborative Professionals of Richmond (CPR).
Many of life’s challenges require us to work together with empathy and strength. During these times, I can be your Collaborative Coach or Child Specialist, providing support, learning, and growth, so that you are not alone. I have advocated for children and their families for over 30 years, serving as a catalyst for change. I experience my work as a vocation and a blessing, and would be honored to work with you.
Laura Wert began working with parents during the divorce process because of her work with children and adolescents. She found that the children’s success in any divorce is intimately tied to how well the parents work together. Feelings created during a divorce, including anger and grief, can be resolved if everyone commits to honest discussion. Laura’s job as coach or child specialist is to help these discussion move forward to creative solutions while keeping the kids’ needs at the center of the process.