child-centered solutions
-
Over 20 years experience working in the fields of separation, divorce, post divorce, parental rights, post separation and divorce, high conflict separation & divorce, intimate partner abuse, coercive control and co-parenting education.
Over 10 years experience serving as a Guardian ad Litem in Family Matters and Parent Coordination.
Interventions based on the most current, respected and sophisticated research and practice nationally and internationally; always ensure that we are on the cutting edge of research and development in the multidisciplinary arena of family matters.
-
Understand that parents experiencing separation, divorce and post separation and divorce may disagree and find it challenging to navigate effectively.
Create structured, evidence based interventions that value varying points of view and high regard for every person.
Ensure that all participants engage respectfully with each other at all times.
-
Sometimes we’re the last person to realize that we may have something to work on ourselves, instead of the other parent having something to work on.
Clear feedback and rationale for that feedback is given with steps to work on to improve communication functioning and removing barriers to reaching agreement.
Clarity if and when a situation is so complex or difficult that realistic expectations will need to be set.
-
There IS reason for hope. It can be hard to believe that things can improve in your co-parenting relationship; especially when you feel like you have exhausted every avenue to make things better.
You, your co-parenting partner, your children and any new partners, spouses, step-children or new children with another partner ALL deserve for things to go better. There is reason to have hope that things can and will improve.
-
Most often, parents come away with agreements reached that can be included in court documents and/ or a clear strategy moving forward.
Most often, parents come away with pathways for improved communication and decision making moving forward.