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COPARENTING THERAPY
Your life is changing in major ways. You are navigating separation or divorce. These changes are confusing, draining, and incredibly painful. On top of all personal emotional challenges, you are stuck in a conflicting relationship with your now-ex. Both of you want to keep your children’s best interests in mind, but it might be difficult to collaborate, find compromises, or even communicate effectively with each other. You might have to adjust to custody agreements and grief the time you do not get to spend with your children. You might disagree about your children’s schedules, extracurricular activities, appropriate screen time, friendships, and hundreds of other important aspects of parenting. You might start to notice a significant negative effect of your co-parenting conflicts on your children. This is such a tough time in everyone’s life.
At the same time, you know that you want to learn how to co-parent peacefully and effectively despite personal differences. You want to be able to manage your feelings in order to create a positive co-parenting environment that your children so desperately need. If both of you share this sentiment of desiring the best outcomes for your children and are willing to engage in a productive dialog about changing the conflicting dynamic, that is a win worth noticing. You are one step closer to redefining what it means to be a family, even when parents are separated or divorced. If you would like my assistance navigating your co-parenting concerns, I would be honored to support you.
POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF SUCCESSFUL COPARENTING THERAPY MAY INCLUDE:
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Improved Parental Communication: You will develop communication skills to promote mutually respectful and effective dialog.
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Healthy Boundaries: You will establish clear boundaries and roles to foster a balanced co-parenting relationship.
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Flexible Co-Parenting Approach: You will create flexibility in co-parenting without compromising the children’s stability and well-being.
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Emotional Resilience for Children: You will learn about protective factors that contribute to the children’s well-being despite the challenges of family separation or divorce.
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Unified Parental Support: You will form a united front supporting the children’s growth, development, and emotional well-being.
INTENSIVE COPARENTING THERAPY
Are you seeking immediate relief from relationship tension? Inquire about intensive therapy or marathon therapy, which offers rapid change, stabilizes relationships, and promotes effective communication. If you have time constraints or prefer not to wait a week between sessions, intensive therapy can provide immediate and productive results.
Intensive therapy is highly customizable, ranging from 3 hours to several days based on your unique needs. It can condense many weeks of regular sessions into just a few hours, creating new experiences that foster hope and improvement. Please reach out to discuss how intensive therapy might benefit your relationship and provide quick, promising outcomes.
MY APPROACH TO COPARENTING THERAPY
In coparenting therapy, I utilize theories that promote effective communication, conflict resolution, and constructive dialog between the co-parents. The main idea of coparenting counseling that underscores all my sessions is grounding both parents in their shared desire to ensure their children’s safety and well-being. I aim to protect children's best interests by also relying on the principles of Attachment Theory, Respectful/Mindful Parenting, and Family Systems framework. These methodologies promote children’s secure attachment to caregivers, which is foundational for a child’s emotional, social, and cognitive development.
During our coparenting therapy sessions, I will guide you both in having important conversations about co-parenting strategies, discussing challenging topics, and navigating personal differences in the most constructive ways. I will aim to create a safe environment where both of you can openly share your concerns and bring out parenting-related disagreements without emotional attacks and heated exchanges.
Ultimately, coparenting therapy can help create a stable and supportive environment for your children. I hope to help you create a framework for consistent and collaborative parenting approaches across households. If interested, you can learn more about these frameworks here: Attachment Theory, Respectful/Mindful Parenting, Family Systems Therapy.