Dr. Barbara Jo Fidler, Ph.D., Acc.FM
Registered Psychologist
Barbara Jo Fidler, Ph.D., Acc.FM is a registered psychologist and accredited mediator practicing in Ontario, Canada. She received her MA from San Francisco State University in 1980 and her Ph.D. from York University in Toronto in 1986. She maintains a private practice and is a founding member of Family Solutions, a team devoted to working with separated and divorced families. She provides consultation, reunification intervention, mediation, arbitration, parenting coordination, expert court testimony and custody/access assessment critiques. Her practice also includes marital/couple, individual (child, adolescents, and adult) and family counseling. Dr. Fidler provides training and supervision for child custody assessments, parenting coordination, mediation, alienation, and other special topics relating to high conflict families. Dr. Fidler is on the faculty of the Part-Time LLM (Family Law Specialization) Program at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. She is on the editorial board of the Family Court Review. She has been actively involved in the development and training of Parenting Coordination services and was appointed to the AFCC Task Force charged with developing guidelines and standards of practice for Parenting Coordination. She is currently Vice-President of AFCC Ontario and a member of the High Conflict Forum in Toronto. Dr. Fidler is a frequent presenter to the judiciary, family bar and mental health professionals on high conflict families and related topics. She has published in the areas of separation/divorce, parenting plans and residential schedules, alienation and parenting coordination. She is co-author of two books: Child Custody Assessments: A Resource Guide for Legal and Mental Health Professionals (2008) and Challenging Issues in Child Custody Disputes: A Guide for Legal and Mental Health Professionals (2008), both published by Thomson Carswell. Dr. Fidler and Professor Nicholas Bala are guest co-editors of the special issue of the Family Court Review entitled: Alienated Children in Divorce and Separation: Emerging Approaches for Families and Courts, published in January 2010.