Kim Wells, LCSW-C, is a Maryland licensed clinical social worker with nearly 30 years of experience specializing in Reunification Therapy, Parent Coordination, high-conflict divorce, resist-refuse family dynamics, and trauma treatment. She works with children, adolescents, adults, and families navigating complex separation and divorce, parent-child estrangement, disrupted relationships, and high-conflict co-parenting.
“In the worst of times, you can do the best of things.”
— Dick Hansen
As a Maryland court-approved Parent Coordinator and experienced Reunification Therapist, Kim works with court-involved and high-conflict families to reduce parental conflict, improve communication, address barriers to parent-child relationships, and promote healthier, more sustainable family relationships. She has extensive experience with resist-refuse dynamics, including situations in which a child is reluctant, resistant, or unwilling to maintain contact with a parent.
Kim approaches these complex cases through careful assessment rather than assumptions about why a parent-child relationship has deteriorated. Her work considers factors such as attachment, trauma, family conflict, prolonged separation, parental behaviors, and the child’s individual experiences and emotional needs.
Kim also provides professional consultation and expert testimony within her areas of clinical training and expertise, including high-conflict family dynamics, Reunification Therapy, resist-refuse dynamics, and parent-child relationships.
In addition to her court-involved family work, Kim specializes in trauma and EMDR therapy. She has completed more than 150 hours of EMDR training and supervision and is a member of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA). Her additional training includes certification as a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) and Certified Trauma Specialist, a two-year certificate program in Psychoanalytic Therapy, and training in SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions).
