For you and your children's sake, do not trust this woman to be a parental evaluator! Please look at the Google reviews, they are of her husband, not of Mary Hoffman! I went through a very difficult divorce from a narcissistic abusive man. He abused me continuously in front of our two teenage children. The abuse would sometimes last for three weeks at a time. My husband was actually teaching our two children an 18 year old girl and a 15 year old boy, to join in on the abuse. My daughter actually beat me up shortly after my husband told authorities that I was the aggressor! My then husband fabricated a restraining order, stating that I beat my daughter up, rather than her attacking me. I was bloodied and bruised, and my head was sore for a week after she was pounding on my head. I was married for 18 years, and I never remember a year that the abuse was so intense, as when our family moved to Boise! My ex-husband was relentless with his psychological, mental, and emotional torture that he was bringing to me. He made me work ten hours days, so he could stay home and not work at all. He would state to me after weeks of abuse that he is going to take our children away from me and I would never see them again, he was going to divorce me, and leave me with nothing. Are assets are worth over a million dollars. After stating these threats, my husband would isolate me for hours, which is considered one of the most extreme form of emotional abuse! Before he isolated me, he would state, that he wishes I would kill myself! I initially went to reunification therapy with a horrible counselor named Jennifer Ritter (She took $2000 from me), whom stated to my daughter that I was mentally ill, and she should not reunify with me. Please understand that this was a court ordered reunification counselor. In my desperation I spent $6000 with Mary Hoffman, a court ordered parental evaluator. What ever you do, do not waste your money! Jennifer Ritter and Mary Hoffman are so corrupt, and do not have any intention to help the non-abusive parent. Mary handed my children to an abusive father and husband. They witnessed so much abuse, they have a higher incidence of becoming abusive, or even worse they could become the abused! I am worried sick about my children, what is my ex-husband doing to them, does he hurt them physically or mentally? Mary Hoffman heard how I and my children were being abused, and there was even proof of the abuse. My husband would torture me for three weeks at a time, and at the end of the three weeks of ritualistic abuse, my husband would video tape me! Mary actually saw these tapes, and she still decided to give this monster full custody of our two gorgeous children to their sadistic father!!! Mary stated in her report that I needed intense EDMR trauma therapy, she actually admitted that my husband traumatized me! However, my husband that has full custody of our children, based on her very strange recommendations, did not have to have any therapy, or even anger management! That is when I found out Mary Hoffman is corrupt, she just steals desperate parent's money! Mary had absolutely no intention in helping a loving, worried-sick mother gain any custody of her two children. She seemed sweet so I would divulge my worst nightmares regarding my husband and our two children, it is a huge front, do not mistake her kindness, she is literally the devil in carnate! I had five collateral witnesses, whom directly witnessed Jeff abusing me, and all of them corroborated my statements! Yet Mary still took my children from me! I am so scared that I will never see them again, I cry hysterically for them, and my life will never be the same. Mary Hoffman traumatized me just as badly as my husband did! Mary also contacted my former counselor at Faces of Hope, which is a domestic violence agency! My counselor Dusti Huddleston, again corroborated that I went to Faces of Hope, because I was so badly being tortured by my husband! Mary Hoffman took my children from a loving, and attentive mother! Even trauma therapy can not change what Mary did to me and my abused children! read more