About Kerry & Palmer

Sharing knowledge from first hand experience

A Unique Mother-Son Collaboration

We are experts in parent-teen relationships and provide a unique perspective as a mother-son duo who walked through the tough teen years together.

Whether you need a short presentation or an in-depth workshop for parents and teens of any length, we can work with you to create a presentation that best fits your needs. We offer relatable laughter, tearing up at the tough, exposing the vulnerable parts, and taking home actionable steps for creating a closer, more connected family.

Her son ‘hated’ her when he was a teen. Then a pandemic homecoming changed their relationship forever.

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN

Kerry Stutzman, MSW, LMFT

Liscensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Parentologist

As an LMFT, Parent Educator, Public Speaker, and Clinical Supervisor, I’ve dedicated my life to helping parents be the best version of themselves so that their children feel seen, cherished, and loved. LMFT, MSW, AAMFT Approved Supervisor and Clinical Fellow, Clinical Supervisor for Denver Family Institute, EMDR trained.

As a mom of three and a stepmom of three more, I understand the complexities of family life. I see parenthood as a developmental stage in the parent’s life and I work to bring out a parent’s best self with heart and skills to raise children in an emotionally healthy environment. View Kerry’s therapy website.

Palmer Skudneski, MFTC

Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate and Teen Life Coach

I was “that kid”. The one who broke rules for the fun of it and rebelled hard against my parents. After a big interruption in life, I made it my life’s work to help tweens and teens navigate their path through adolescence with success and better decisions.

I have always known that one of my happy places was having meaningful conversations with people, listening to their stories and understanding more about their hopes and ambitions.

I love seeing people talk about their passions and what their ideal journey in life would be. I quickly realized that it brought me immense fulfillment and joy to help people take ownership of their journey in life, and make their hopes and goals a reality.

In my own life, I have had many seasons where I have felt aimless and confused on what direction I wanted to head in. There were many times where I was just trying to get through the next day, and didn’t care to think about the journey ahead. I felt hopeless and angry at the circumstances I was facing in life. I wondered how I would find meaning in these seasons. View Palmer’s teen coaching website.

Hear from Kerry and Palmer on Sunday mornings with stories from the heart, and thoughts about parenting (from babies to teens to adult children!), creating strong family relationships, and taking care of yourself in the process.

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Real Talk, Real families

What we write ourselves

Every article, lesson, and course module here starts as a blank page and one of us sitting in front of it. Kerry has spent decades as a therapist working with families in the middle of divorce. Palmer brings his own experience to the same problem. What you read is drawn from real sessions, real conversations, and real mistakes we have watched parents make and recover from. None of that can be generated. It has to be lived first and then written down.

When we tell a story about a client, that story happened. When we recommend a way to handle a handoff at the front door on a Sunday night, it is because we have watched it work.

Where AI actually helps

We use AI tools the way we use a good research assistant or a careful copy editor.

Research. Checking a statistic, finding a study we half remember, pulling together background on a custody arrangement we have not encountered before. We verify anything we publish against the original source, because these tools are confidently wrong often enough that we do not take their word for it.

Proofreading. Catching the typo, the sentence that runs on for four lines, the paragraph that made sense in our head and nowhere else.

Organizing. Sometimes we have forty minutes of talking about a topic and need help seeing the shape of it before we start writing.

Site and technical work. Behind the scenes, AI helps with the software that runs this site.

Where we do not use it

We do not have AI write our articles. We do not have it invent client stories or examples. We do not use it to answer questions that call for clinical judgment, and we do not let it stand in for the professional experience that is the reason you came here in the first place.

If you ever read something on this site and feel like nobody was home when it was written, tell us. That is a failure on our part, and we want to know about it.

Why we are telling you this

A lot of sites in this space have quietly handed their content to a machine and hoped nobody would notice. We are not interested in that, partly because it would be dishonest and partly because it would not work. Divorce is a hard, specific, personal thing. Generic advice does not help anybody through it.

We would rather tell you plainly how the sausage is made and let you decide whether to trust us.