She has furthered her education in Lifestyle Medicine through Harvard Medical School and earned certification through a nationally recognized Transformative Nurse Coach Certificate Program. But her deepest understanding of loss, endurance, and healing came through her own experience with parental alienation.

As a mother and survivor of alienation, Marisa knows the emotional devastation of being separated from a child through manipulation, emotional coercion, and legal injustice. Rather than allowing that experience to define her solely through loss, she transformed it into a calling.

Through her book, Shattered Bonds, Resilient Heart, and her coaching practice, Presence & Persistence Life Coaching, Marisa now supports alienated parents as they reclaim their voices, rebuild emotional stability, and find the strength to keep moving toward healing and reconnection.

Her work is rooted in lived experience, compassionate guidance, and evidence-based strategies, all carried by one enduring belief:

“Hope survives where love has lived.”