About the Creators
Meet the professionals behind the High Conflict to High Road program
Shera Kelly
Certified Advanced Parenting Instructor — Breakthrough Parenting Academy
Certified Pre-Mediation & Custody Coach — High Conflict Institute
Member, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC)
Shera Kelly brings nearly a decade of firsthand experience with the realities of Parental Alienation, combined with advanced training in Cognitive Reframing, NLP, Subconscious Reconditioning, Anger Management, and Confidence-Building strategies.
To develop this program, Shera conducted extensive interviews with Family Law Attorneys, Mediators, Custody Evaluators, Judges, and Parent Coordinators — gathering evidence-based interventions, identifying gaps in the current system, and building in rigorous accountability measures that support long-term legal stability.
With seven years of hands-on experience coaching high-conflict co-parents, Shera has distilled the most effective, proven strategies into the High Conflict to High Road course and the Parallel Parenting Plan Template — both available on this website.
Kara Norred, LMSW
Master of Social Work — Jacksonville State University
Kara Norred is a Licensed Master Social Worker with deep experience across both clinical and child welfare settings. She spent a year as a substance abuse counselor, where she also facilitated parenting classes for parents and caregivers whose children were in state care.
Kara went on to serve three years with the Alabama Department of Human Resources, working directly with families and children during abuse and neglect investigations and throughout the foster care process. Kara was also trained by the state to conduct TIPS-MAPPING training for future potential foster parents (Trauma informed partnering for safety and performance- model approach to partnerships in parenting)
Her firsthand experience on the front lines of family crisis and child protection brings a grounded, real-world perspective to the High Conflict to High Road program.
Our Professional Partners
The professionals listed below have witnessed firsthand the tremendous challenges high-conflict co-parents face — and the urgent need for real, lasting solutions.
They are recognized contributors to the development of the High Conflict to High Road online coaching course — a program that goes far beyond traditional anger management or parenting classes. This course is designed as a psychological transformation: from anger to confidence, from chaos to productive calm and focused action, and from reactive parenting to role-model parenting that protects children from the lasting damage of high-conflict environments.
Participants also move from helplessness to empowerment by learning strategic interventions and building legal stability — tools that create real, measurable change.