Helping You Recover from Being abused by a narcissist

Padideh Jafari, Attorney at Law

Mrs. Padideh Jafari is the Founder and CEO of Jafari Law & Mediation Office, APC with offices in Los Angeles and Orange County.

Mrs. Jafari graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelor of Arts in communication studies and minor in psychology. She obtained her law degree from Southwestern University School of Law.

During law school, Ms. Jafari was a Judicial Extern in the Los Angeles Superior Court for the Honorable Michael D. Rutberg. She clerked for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, in a special unit, handling child rape and molestation cases.

Mrs. Jafari was admitted to the California Bar and the United States District Court for the Central District of California in 2003. Mrs. Jafari has also held various Adjunct Professor roles at NYU and Southern California Institute of Law teaching courses on Community Property, Family Law and Real Estate Law.

For the past 22 years, Mrs. Jafari has represented clients with complex family law issues, including business valuation, cash-flow analysis, high-asset property division totaling in the hundreds of millions and high stakes custody litigation. She is well-known in the Los Angeles and Orange County legal community as a seasoned family law litigator.

Mrs. Jafari co-hosts a weekly Podcast called, The Narcissist Abuse Recovery Channel (NARC) to help the community understand the pitfalls of divorcing a Narcissist as she deals with these types of high-conflict cases while representing clients in Family Law. Mrs. Jafari is also a victim of narcissistic abuse as well and speaks with authority from her experience.

Jon McKenney, Coach & Author

Jon Mckenney is a natural coach– it’s hard-wired in his DNA and is his best gift and skill. He has been coaching people for decades from all walks of life. Jon spent more than 30 years in the non-profit sector working hands-on with adolescents and adults in nurturing environments, as well has having started his own small business in the technology arena.

In the last few years he’s shifted his focus from non-profit work to working almost exclusively with men and women who have been abused by female narcissists, having started an organization called Male Victims of Female Narcissists. MVOF is committed to helping those who are being narcissistically abused 1) to discover what is taking place and 2) how to cope and handle the situation. Jon is also currently working on a book, which is an educational auto-biography about his experience having been married to a covert female narcissist for almost 3 decades. He brings his expertise in understanding narcissists and coaching to every podcast, in order to help those who are suffering from narcissistic abuse and for those who are recovering from this horrific emotional abuse that often goes unchecked and undiagnosed.

Jon does individual coaching and will be starting small group coaching shortly, as well as having lent his expertise to co-host the Narcissist Abuse Recovery Channel along with his friend Attorney Jafari. Together their insight will help many who struggle as victims of narcissistic abuse.