Nolanda Robert, MS, CCFC

Nolanda Robert, MS, CCFC, is a highly experienced Clinically Certified Forensic Counselor with over 30 years of dedicated service supporting children, adolescents, and families through therapeutic, educational, and legal processes. She is the founder and lead practitioner of Voice of a Child, LLC, where she provides specialized counseling for children ages 4–18, using cognitive-behavioral and play therapy techniques she has been trained in since 2000. Nolanda also offers counseling and coaching for adults navigating high-conflict divorce and custody cases, focusing on emotional resilience, constructive co-parenting, and healthy coping strategies. In her earlier career, Nolanda worked extensively in foster care, juvenile delinquency programs, school-based behavioral therapy, and community mental health services. Since 2005, she has provided therapeutic interventions and assessments for family courts, supporting children and adolescents through contested custody disputes. She is also a trained Mediator (since 2005) and Parent Coordinator (since 2006). Nolanda was a Family Support Services Coordinator in the Cecil County Circuit Court, a position she has held for 18 years. In this role, she provided support to families facing separation, divorce, custody disputes, domestic violence issues, and child protection matters.

Nolanda’s clinical focus encompasses depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, child abuse and neglect, grief and loss, and stress management in children, and divorce coaching, mediation, and parent coordination for adults. She is also an experienced trainer, having educated teachers, school support staff, case managers, and parents on working with children with mental health disorders, behavioral challenges, and special needs. Her training extends to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives tailored to organizations’ specific services and client populations, in addition.

Nolanda has presented at numerous international trainings. She recently did a training on High Conflict Co-Parenting and How it Affects their Children in Barbados at the International Families Alliance Conference, Men & Families 2025. She has also presented at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in June 2023 on Resist & Refuse: Unraveling the Trauma. She presented a webinar on Child Abuse & Culture for the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in January 2023. She has also presented at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) in 2022 on Diversity, Equity & Inclusivity in Family Law. She did a webinar for (AFCC) in 2021 on Risk Management and Culture, and at the AFCC Conference in Toronto in 2019 on The Voice of the Child in Court Proceedings. Nolanda’s organizational memberships include The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) since 2006, a member of the National Association of Forensic Counselors since 2012, current BoardPast- President of the Maryland Chapter of the AFCC, and Co-Chair of the National AFCC Diversity, Equity, & Inclusivity Committee, Appointed Member of the Mental Health & Addictions Advisory Council, Harford County, MD, Appointed Member of the Maryland Affordable Housing Board of Trustees, and Board Member of the Harford County NAACP.

• University of Baltimore

• Association of Family and Conciliation Court