Built From Lived Experience

We are a family team that has lived through complex family dynamics and extensive court involvement—and worked hard to create lasting change.

Dr. Lisa Welter’s personal history includes more than 150 court hearings. Through that experience, our family learned how quickly conflict, behavioral concerns, mental health challenges, and unmet needs can draw families deeper into systems while blowing up relationships that create isolation. Families can create a different path when they receive the right invitation, guidance, and support.

That experience became the foundation of The Katallasso Group.

We Extend Invitations To:

Coach Families
We meet parents and youth where they are, without shame or judgment. We help them understand what is happening, strengthen family leadership, and identify practical next steps.

Build Plans
Through restorative family mediation, conflict coaching, restorative circles, and Circles of Support & Accountability, families create agreements that reflect their needs, responsibilities, and hopes.

Prevent or Halt System Involvement
Our goal is to address concerns early enough to prevent court involvement whenever possible—or help families stabilize and move toward successful closure when systems are already involved.

A Family Team Walking Alongside Families
We are not approaching this work from theory alone. Our family has experienced conflict, difficult choices, system involvement, rebuilding, and restoration.

Today, as Minnesota Rule 114 Qualified Neutrals, we use both professional training and lived experience to create restorative spaces where parents and youth can be heard, take responsibility, repair harm, and build sustainable plans.

We know families are more likely to succeed when they are active participants in creating their own path forward.