Meet the experts

Kaytlyn "Kaytee" Gillis is a psychotherapist, author, and consultant with a passion for working with survivors of traumatic relationships. She is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board Approved Clinical Supervisor.  She has extensive experience working with survivors of family trauma and dysfunction. Due to both her personal and professional experiences, Kaytee has focused her work on helping survivors grow in the aftermath of trauma. She has published two books on intimate partner abuse and a third, most recent book: Breaking the Cycle: The 6 Stages of Healing from Childhood Family Trauma. Through her published writing, as well as her presentations and trainings, Kaytee hopes to help others develop awareness and healing.

Giselle Levin, PsyD (they/she/he), is a licensed psychologist in the state of California specializing in transgender healthcare and sex therapy. Giselle completed their doctorate at Pace University in New York, NY, and trained as a postdoctoral resident in LGBT mental health at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. They currently work as a gender specialist at the University of California San Francisco –Child and Adolescent Gender Center. Giselle is a member of UCSF’s Mind the Gap consortium of gender-affirming providers for youth and is in the process of completing their AASECT sex therapy and WPATH transgender healthcare certifications. 

David Schel is a nationally recognized figure in marriage strengthening and divorce reduction.
He’s the founder of Kids Against Divorce; through which he created The Marriage Education Act; legislation designed to treat a marriage license as most other state issued licenses and require a minimal level of education. The MEA has been discussed on national television news programs as well as in newspapers and on radio shows throughout the country. David has experienced divorce in all its forms - as a son, a brother, a nephew, an uncle, a husband, a stepfather, and father. His first novel, Without A Chair, is used as a companion to the textbook when discussing divorce in an upper-level Adolescent Development class at a major midwestern university. Along with Dr. Julie Campbell, David co-created the Difficult Discussions about Divorce Workshop for college students as well as a university class titled Divorce as a Phenomenon. He co-instructs both. Together, he and Dr. Campbell created Divorce As a Course, a community of educators with a shared goal of seeing divorce taught at every college and university. Guilty of Innocence, the sequel to Without a Chair, will be out in 2025. David’s latest project, GETWED, a socially responsible partnership between Engaged Couples, Marriage Education Providers & Wedding Vendors is in development and scheduled to launch in 2024.