ABOUT US

Interaction Focused Family Institute

Our mission is to validate the best interest of the child in custody mediation and accelerate your family trust.

Nathan Johnston
Rev. Dr. Nathan Johnston-Chiszar, EdD, PCC

Nathan Johnston-Chiszar

Nathan Johnston is the founder of the Interaction Focused Family Institute, and creator of the Family Legacy System. Parents facing divorce seek his guidance to make a critical detour from the destructive path of the family court system – a path that too often tears children apart, neglects their emotional needs, and devastates families’ financial futures.

As a founding member of Dorcy Pruter’s Conscious Co-Parenting Collective, Nathan has mastered the intricate process of helping families recover from parental alienation. Through a strategic partnership with Safe Money Solutions, his clients gain access to an innovative financial distribution platform that eliminates dependency on traditional lending – empowering parents to protect their children’s futures.

His insights come from hard-won personal experience. When his youngest child experienced gender dysphoria during the pandemic, Judge Richard Distaso (known for prosecuting the Scott Peterson case) issued an emergency order suspending Nathan’s parenting time. What followed was a 500-day separation without a hearing due to COVID-related delays in the court system. During this time, his transgender child was led to believe Nathan was transphobic, causing deep wounds in their relationship.

Standing firm in unconditional love for his child, Nathan faced the crushing weight of nearly a quarter-million dollars in debt and the loss of his retirement savings to repair the damage inflicted by the family court system. This crucible of experience – navigating both emotional trauma and financial devastation – transformed him into a lifeline for parents trapped in their own family court nightmares. 

The Family Legacy System emerges from this journey as a comprehensive parenting solution, designed to shield children from family court system failures while preserving their parents’ financial stability.