Jayne Roberman, LMSW, is a Licensed Master Social Work consultant in private practice in New York City with 30 years of experience in the fields of Adoption, Special Education Advocacy, and High Conflict Divorce and Parenting Services. In all of these areas, her primary goal is to help parents achieve balance and harmony in their lives.
In private practice since 1993, Jayne
- Works with families adopting domestically, independently, and through agencies by preparing adoption home studies and providing counseling services
- Helps parents navigate the challenging NYC special education maze and collaborates with families and the Department of Education to create and implement critical interventions on behalf of their children
- Facilitates supervised and therapeutic supervised visitation where children are at risk or families are engaged in significant emotional conflict
- Assists high conflict parents to implement effective parenting plans through conflict resolution while educating parents about their children’s needs
- Provides practical parenting education & coaching for intact or separating/divorced couples
Jayne began her career as a social worker with 8 years at the Juvenile Rights Division of The Legal Aid Society. In 1993, she started her private practice and turned her attention toward forensic child custody and visitation matters while developing an expertise in therapeutic supervised visitation and parenting facilitation and education in high conflict matrimonial divorce matters. Jayne has harnessed her social work experience and skills over the years to help parents engage in nurturing, responsive, and positive interactions with their children in an attempt to repair or establish a more secure parent-child relationship.
In line with her goal of assisting families in conflict, Jayne has developed an expertise in Special Education Advocacy. She has proactively helped parents receive appropriate academic and related services for their children who present with learning, physical, and/or emotional disabilities that interfere with their education.
Additionally, for over 25 years Jayne has enjoyed facilitating countless independent domestic adoption home studies and providing counseling to adoptive families. Believing that “family” extends beyond the traditional nuclear family of the past, she has enjoyed assisting same sex couples in growing their families by means of second parent or step parent adoptions.
Jayne is very familiar with the attorneys and judges who practice matrimonial and adoption law in Family and Supreme Courts in New York and accepts referrals from judges, attorneys and private individuals.
Among other organizations, Jayne is a member of:
- COPAA – Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates
- AFCC – Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
- The Interdisciplinary Forum on Mental Health and Family Law
- Supervised Visitation Network
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Parenting Education Network
- FamilyKind
