Dr. Randy Heller received her doctorate in Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University. She has held multiple positions as an Educator, Exceptional Student Specialist, and Family Counselor for The Broward County School Board beginning in 1980. She is now a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Supreme Court Family Mediator, Qualified Parenting Coo
rdinator, and Certified Hypnotherapist, and Founder and Clinical Director of The Family Network, Collaborative Counseling Center for Positive Growth and Change, established in 1994. Heller has had highly successful experience working with all aged individuals, parents, couples, step-families, children of divorce, and students with educational, motivational, and behavioral challenges; facilitating change in their behavior, interactions, and relationships. Dr. Heller is a clinical member and approved supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. She has also received specialized training in Collaborative Family Law. She is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. Heller serves as a Board member of The Florida Academy of Collaborative Professionals (FACP), is Past President of The Collaborative Family Law Professionals of South Florida, a Board member of the New York Academy of Collaborative Professionals, an active member on the Research Committees of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) and FACP, the IACP Higher Education Task Force, and had participated as member of the Access to Collaboration Committees of the IACP for many years. Dr. Heller has researched and published her doctoral dissertation on Competency and the Role of the Mental Health Counselor in the Collaborative Family Law. She has also published an article in the Collaborative Review Research Edition, and three book chapters on this topic as well. Heller has also written the syllabus and teaches an elective course for Masters and Doctoral students in Collaborative Divorce at Nova Southeastern University in the Department of Family Therapy, now in its seventh year. Dr. Heller is also the creator and director of the NSU/Mission United/Family Network/Collaborative Family Law Professionals Veteran Pro Bono Clinic, also in its seventh year, guiding veteran families through Collaborative process in conjunction with Legal Aid, the University, and the Collaborative Family Law Professionals of S.
