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KRISTIN WOULFE, M.A. Custody and Parenting Time Dispute Resolution Services Education M.A.: Counseling Psychology University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MN Date of Degree: June 2002 B.A.: Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Date of Degree: March 1996 Related Qualified A.D.R. Family Court Neutral under Rule 114 of Qualifications Minnesota General Rules of Practice for District Court Professional Title: Custody and Parenting Time Evaluator/Mediator Experience Time: September 2005 – July 2012 Place: Hennepin County Family Court Services, Minneapolis, MN Duties: Performed custody and parenting time evaluations, Social Early Neutral Evaluations, and mediations. Title: Hennepin County Family Court Guardian Ad Litem Time: April 2000 – August 2005 Place: State of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Duties: Advocated for children’s best interests regarding custody and parenting time issues in court. Title: Psychiatric Associate Time: January 2003 – May 2005 Place: Fairview-University Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN Duties: Work with families and adolescents in crisis on a locked mental health unit.

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Education M.A.: Counseling Psychology University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MN Date of Degree: June 2002 B.A.: Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Date of Degree: March 1996 Related Qualified A.D.R. Family Court Neutral under Rule 114 of Qualifications Minnesota General Rules of Practice for District Court Professional Title: Custody and Parenting Time Evaluator/Mediator Experience Time: September 2005 – July 2012

Place: Hennepin County Family Court Services, Minneapolis, MN Duties: Performed custody and parenting time evaluations, Social Early Neutral Evaluations, and mediations. Title: Hennepin County Family Court Guardian Ad Litem Time: April 2000 – August 2005

Place: State of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Duties: Advocated for children’s best interests regarding custody

and parenting time issues in court.

Title: Psychiatric Associate Time: January 2003 – May 2005

Place: Fairview-University Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN Duties: Work with families and adolescents in crisis on a locked mental health unit.

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Publication Woulfe K, O’Keefe K: Child Custody, Child Development, and Parenting Time, Minnesota Divorce Practice Deskbook, Edited by Rodman S, Moberg J, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, First Ed. Update, 2017 Nilsson M, Woulfe K: Child Custody, Child Development, and Parenting Time, Minnesota Divorce Practice Deskbook, Edited by Rodman S, Moberg J, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, First Ed., 2015

Presentations Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, Family Law Institute, 2018

Social Science Update, with Mindy Mitnick, M.Ed, LP, March 2018

Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, Divorce A to Z Webcast Series--Minnesota Divorce Practice Deskbook—Child Custody, Child Development, and Parenting Time, with Kendal O’Keefe, JD, and Pamela Waggoner, JD, October 2017

Minnesota Continuing Legal Education-- How to Handle a Divorce

in Minnesota, Minnesota Divorce Practice Deskbook, with Jim Vedder, JD, August 2015

AAML Divorce Camp – Love Hurts: Spousal Maintenance in Minnesota – Foreseeable Post-Decree Parenting Issues, Strategies, and Resolutions, with Referee Richard Stebbins Alexandria, MN, September 2014

AAML Divorce Day Camp – The Middle Class Divorce – Post-Decree: They’re Back, with Referee Patricia Moses and Eva Cheney-Hatcher, JD, Chaska, MN, June 2014

Conflict Resolution Center – Family Bridge Mediation Training Minneapolis, MN, January 2014 & 2013 Hamline Mediation Center – Solomon’s Surrogates: An Introduction to Court Ordered Custody and Parenting Time Evaluations, with Jennifer Joseph, JD & Michael London, JD, Minneapolis, MN, October 2013

Relevant • Minnesota Psychological Association Lunch and Learn--Supporting Training Parenting After Traumatic Events, December 2018

• AAML Divorce Camp—Dousing the Flame: Strategies for Working with High Conflict, September 2018

• AAML Divorce Camp – High Stakes: A Deck Stacked With ACEs,

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October 2017 • Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) MN Half Day

Conference – Overnights for Young Children: Parenting Plans that Grow with the Child; Marsha Kline Pruett, PhD, MSL, February 2017

• Ordinary Magic: Advances in Developmental Resilience Science and its Applications; Minnesota Psychological Association and Metropolitan State University, Ann Masten, PhD, LP, October 2016

• AAML Divorce Camp – Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Taking Care of Ourselves and Our Clients, September 2016

• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) MN Annual Conference – Reunification Theory: The Oxymoron in Family Court? Exploring Alienation, Estrangement & Reunification, July 2016

• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) MN Annual Conference – Repairing the Polarized Family: Balancing the child’s needs, the court’s orders, and providers’ liability, Benjamin Garber, PhD, July 2016

• Cultural Practices in Parenting; Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health, Carol Siegel, PhD, LP, December 2015

• Child Maltreatment: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective on the Role of Trauma and Neglect in Psychopathology; Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health, Bruce Perry, MD, PhD, September 2015

• MN Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic, and Histrionic: Effective Treatment for Cluster B Personality Disorders; Joselito Faustino, PsyD, PESI, September 2015

• AAML Divorce Camp – The Grey Divorce: Unique Challenges For Parties Over Fifty, September 2015

• When Nuts are Loose and Bolts Don’t Fit: Advanced Practices in Parenting Coordination, Arnold Shienvold, PhD, Chicago, IL, March 2015

• Nuts and Bolts of Parenting Coordination: Helping High Conflict Parents Resolve Disputes, Mindy Mitnick, M.Ed, LP, Chicago, IL, March 2015

• AAML Divorce Camp – Love Hurts: Spousal Maintenance in Minnesota, September 2014

• AAML Divorce Day Camp – The Middle Class Divorce – f Post-Decree: They’re Back, June 2014

• “Strange Situation” – Infant Attachment Training, University of Minnesota, Alan Sroufe PhD, Minneapolis, MN, June 2014

• A DSM By Any Other Name: Overview of DSM-5; Minnesota

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Association for Children’s Mental Health, Joel V. Oberstar, MD, December 2013

• A Developmentally Based Discussion of the New DSM- 5, Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health, Marit Appeldoorn, MSW, LICSW, August 2013

• AAML MN Divorce Day Camp – The Middle Class Divorce: Equal Justice Under the Law, May 2013

• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) MN Annual Conference – Autism…The Coming Tsunami of Family Court, David Holmes, EdD, April 2013

• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) MN Half Day Program – Hearing the Child: Forensic Interviewing of Children and Child Inclusive Mediation, Mindy Mitnick, M.Ed, LP, Kirsten Lysne, PhD, Peggy Cottrell, LMFT, February 2013

• “Strange Situation” – Infant Attachment Training, University of Minnesota, Alan Sroufe, PhD, June 2012

• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) National Annual Conference – Attachment, Brain Science and Children of Divorce: The ABCD’s of Child Development for Family Law, June 2012

• Child Inclusive Mediation training with Jennifer McIntosh, PhD, May 2012

• Parenting Consulting Training, Karen Irvin, PhD and Andrea Niemi, Esq, May 2012

• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) MN Annual Conference – Child and Family Development in the Context of Contested Custody Litigation: Understanding, Assessing and Responding to the Needs of the Triangulated Child, Benjamin Garber, PhD, April 2012

• Minnesota Association of Custody Resolution Specialists (MACRS) – Advanced Topics in Dispute Resolution: Attachment Issues and Parenting Plans, Sandra Hewitt, PhD and Karen Irvin, PhD, November 2011

• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) MN Annual Conference – Intensive Interventions for High Conflict Parents, Matthew Sullivan, PhD, July 2010

• TECHR Annual Children at Risk Conference, May 2011 • The domestic abuse perpetrator understanding and treating

abusive behaviors, Nancy Ver Steegh, JD, MSW, March 2011 • Managing the mental health crises of clients, TECHR Annual

Children at Risk Conference, May 2010 • Experiencing Change – Managing Transitions: TECHR Annual

Children at Risk Conference, May 2009

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• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) MN Annual Conference – High Conflict Divorce: Is it Abuse, Alienation, and/or Estrangement?, Leslie Drozd, PhD, April 2009

• Advanced Topics in Dispute Resolution: Keeping Kids Out of The Middle: Assessing and Enabling Children’s Attachment Relationships In the Midst of Co-Parental Conflict, Separation, and Divorce – Benjamin Garber, PhD, October 2008

• Minnesota Interdisciplinary Committee on Divorce (MICOD) Custody and High Conflict Families: Strengths, Challenges and Options, Isolina Ricci, April 2008

• Breaking Murphy’s Law – How to work effectively with systems, TECHR Annual Children at Risk Conference, June 2008

• Working with involuntary clients: Advances in theory, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare MN Board of Social Work, September 2008

• Brain Injury Basics – An introduction, Brain Injury Association of MN, February 2008

• Minnesota Association of Custody Resolution Specialists (MACRS) – Advanced Topics in Dispute Resolution: The “Good Enough” Parent, October 2007

• Minnesota Interdisciplinary Committee on Divorce (MICOD) Working with Personality Disorders in Family Court Cases – William Eddy, April 2007

• Healing the attachment traumatized child effective strategies for severe behaviors, TECHR Annual Children at Risk Conference, May 2007

• What is attachment really? Center For Excellence in Children’s Mental Health, October 2006

• Minnesota Interdisciplinary Committee on Divorce (MICOD) High Conflict Divorce, Should the Baby Stay Overnight? Joan Kelly, PhD, April 2006

• Minnesota Association of Custody Resolution Specialists (MACRS) Advanced Topics in Dispute Resolution: Multiple Child Sexual Abuse Allegations – New Legislation, Sandra Hewitt, PhD, October 2006

• Paradigm shifts: Helping Our Most Challenging Children, TECHR Annual Children At Risk Conference, May 2006

• Minnesota Interdisciplinary Committee on Divorce (MICOD) Beyond Victimhood: A Model for Working with Intimate Partner Violence, March 2005

• Early Neutral Evaluation Training – Hennepin County Family Court Services, January 2005

• Understanding the Culture of Poverty, TECHR Annual Children

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at Risk Conference, 2002 • First Friday Forum – Attachment Disruptions and Aggressive

Children, MN Psychological Association and Metropolitan State University, December 2001

• Mediation Training – Hennepin County Family Court Services, 2001

• Solomon’s Surrogates – Custody and Parenting Time Evaluation Training, Hennepin County Family Court Services, March 2001

• Developmentally Based Parenting Schedules, Mindy Mitnick, M.Ed, LP, February 2001

• Rethinking Parental Alienation and Redesigning Child Access Services for Children Who Resist or Refuse Visitation, Janet Johnston, PhD, 2001

• Minnesota Association of Guardians ad Litem – Annual Conference 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

• Family Court Guardian Ad Litem Training, 2000 • Juvenile Court Guardian Ad Litem Training, 1997

Family Court Services Internal Trainings:

• Domestic violence • Domestic violence and custody issues • Domestic violence research • Cultural diversity in the clients we serve • Parental Alienation Syndrome • How to interview children effectively • Marshak structured parent child observations • Anthony Bene Parent Child Relationship Interview Tool • Chemical dependency evaluations • Writing effective custody evaluations • Effective use of the ENE process • Effective use of settlement conferences • Effective use of facilitated settlement conferences

Practicum Washburn Child Guidance Center Experience Elementary Day Treatment Program

Provided therapeutic interventions to elementary school aged children diagnosed with severe emotional and behavioral disorders in a structured and supportive environment.

Professional • Ramsey County Early Case Management Steering Committee – Community Current Involvement • Child Focused Parenting Time Work Group – Current

• Ramsey County Volunteer Mediation Program – Current

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• Association of Family & Conciliation Courts (AFCC) Professional Development Committee – 2013-2015

• Ramsey County Low Cost Custody Evaluation Program – Development committee – 2013-2014

• Child Inclusive Mediation (CIM) Best Practices Standards Committee – Group developed best practice standards for CIM – 2013

• Association of Family & Conciliation Courts (AFCC) committee – Creating newly formed Minnesota Chapter 2008-2010

• Minnesota Interdisciplinary Committee on Divorce (MICOD) – Group committed to providing high quality national speakers on Family Court issues annually 2005-2008

• Ramsey County Juvenile Court Guardian Ad Litem, 1997-2000

Professional Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) Memberships National and Minnesota chapter