I want to speak to you more directly about Allison Maury on a more personal level. 

Now I am sure you know how wonderful she is and how helpful and knowledgeable, but I need to let you know.

I was sitting this weekend watching my daughters and was so happy seeing them getting along as well as they were, and also reflecting back on some things. My daughters have always been in competition for people to take "their side" and if you didn't things didn't turn out too great. Although this is partially normal teenage sibling controversy it's been a big problem for us and a big part on a lot of issues escalating to where they never needed to get. So, thru a lot of the therapy and caseworkers and all the other people involved in our case my daughters have without hesitation refused to speak to individuals, sometimes completely justified and other times because they weren't hearing what they wanted to hear.

All of sudden I thought of that and realized that not ONE time have my daughters had a complaint or anything negative to say about Allison. When we first started there was a lot of back and forth with coming and I was so confused, hurt, scared feeling such guilt and feeling so hopeless. Allison stood strong by me and my family and hung in being a rock for me and was so insightful and so patient and eventually got my girls coming. I am so grateful for her and she truly has been a blessing. She handles every situation so perfectly. It's been a real roller coaster but no matter what she's real, she says things how they are and in a way that even if my kids don't want to hear it, and don't necessarily like what she has to say, and don't become engaged at that moment... I know they are listening and processing it.

Something I have really had to learn is what truly listening and hearing them is. And with that learning how to validate their feelings even if my decision on a matter isn't going to change or needing to tell them something isn't accurate. I think Allison has helped me the most with that out of everyone I have been working with. And I am not perfect i still mess that up sometimes and Allison will point it out but she does it in such a different way than everyone else. She acknowledges that i can be handling it different in front of my children but while correcting me she maintains respect and that I am the mom.

I just wanted to let you know how much of an impact she has on us and that i reflect much throughout my everyday life on her insight and guidance and use what she has taught me and I feel much more confident and am communicating differently. She is such a sweet and true loving soul and I feel blessed out of all this heartache to have met her and been able to work with her. I think she is going to help a lot of families and I hope others can see what we do so they can get as much from her as I have.