Marie Schiller,

309 Lynnhaven Parkway, Virginia Beach, VA 234527411

"I spoke to Ms. Schiller about talking to me and a coparent in a high conflict custody battle. She said she had handled many high conflict cases where a Gaurdian ad Litem was involved. The initial consultation went well but that was it. She is not able to give an unbiased or professional opinion about child custody . she is also unable to deescalate tension across parties during sessions. I would give her zero stars if I could. she is out of network but accepts Tricare and I had to get an exception for them to allow her to speak to us for our issues and I regret talking to her and jumping through hoops to get this referal approved. During the last session My coparent and I went to she kept asking me to step outside because some of the topics were making me emotional . when I asked if I could step outside she said ok and then she said "I will count this as your third Coparenting session so you do not have to come back". I said ok and left . She called the Gaurdian Ad Litem for my daughters court case, and told her that I walked out of the sessions, and that the sessions were incomplete. I'm not sure if I upset this person or if she just took sides and wanted to help out the other party in the court case but that was extremely unprofessional. For one, she asked me to step outside all the time during the session because she could not de-escalate the conversation between The coparent and I. Those of you who have gone through custody battles know that sometimes the other party can say things that need to be addressed, but do invoke a lot of emotion. I am extremely disappointed in Mariah Schiller's professionalism. My daughter went to see another psychologist who worked with active duty, military families for over 30 years and this Coparenting Therapist just threw out the letter like the person who wrote it had zero experience. She would not talk about things in this letter. Some of these things included important information about my daughters, emotional health And how the other coparent and I could help her. Overall a terrible experience and I hope Tricare takes her off of available providers completely. This was a three session, court ordered, Coparenting therapy plan that I requested because there were some issues that need to be addressed. The judge approved it. Now I have to tell this judge why I walked out and why this therapist lied to the Gaurdian Ad Litem about how many sessions she said i went to (Four including individual) Overall again horrible experience would not ever go back."