Nancy Payne Lewis (Mental Health Professional)

General Comments

Nancy Payne Lewis has been licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist for more than twenty years. She has experience working with alcohol and drug abuse recovery, domestic violence, and post traumatic stress disorder. She comes to her interest in Collaborative Practice from her six-year stint as a Mediator and Evaluator for Family Court Services in San Mateo County. Her next assignment, as a Juvenile Probation Officer, firmed her belief that that there had to be a better way for families to separate and re-form themselves. She is convinced that Collaborative Divorce is the way to achieve this. She has also helped individual adults and children understand and cope with divorce through her private psychotherapy practice.

In addition to her private and collaborative practice, Nancy is active in the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, where she is the Trauma Response coordinator for San Francisco. She is also a monthly plasma donor with Blood Centers of the Pacific.