CO-PARENTING MEDIATION & collaborative divorce COACHING

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As a mediator/collaborative divorce coach, my role is to help you and your spouse/partner have difficult conversations in a structured and safe environment designed to reduce conflict and encourage cooperation. I will help you outline the relevant issues, and assist you in identifying your goals, needs and interests in order to reach a lasting and legally enforceable settlement.

Co-mediation, or Collaborative involves two neutral mediators—professionals who work together with both parties, in the same room. Co-mediation with a neutral mental health professional can be a cost-efficient option for cases where additional support is needed, such as high conflict, substance abuse, domestic violence or mental health issues. Co-mediation with a neutral financial divorce specialist is beneficial and efficient in financially complex cases. I am a trained Collaborate Divorce Coach and a member of the CCND. 

 Divorce signals the end of an intimate partnership for adults but not the end of a family for children. Divorce requires a family restructuring that will disrupt but doesn't need to disadvantage a child. When parents participate in respectful, constructive co-parenting, the two-home family offers children a chance to enjoy their one-and-only childhood with parents working together and living apart. Divorce and Co-Parenting Coaching offers guidance through the transition from spouses/partners to co-parents. Whether you've been married, lived together, or simply have a child you want to raise as co-parents, learning to work together in the best interest of your child/ren is the purview of the co-parent coach. A most common use of co-parenting mediation & coaching is in developing a parenting plan. However, many parents access the guidance of a co-parent coach for implementing their parenting plan after divorce/separation, reducing conflict, and developing practices and protocols that work in two-home families. Co-parents often seek guidance from a co-parenting coach when planning to introduce a new romantic partner to their children and similar significant family events.Coaching/Collaborative Divorce Coaching, whether through a divorce or for co-parenting, involves collaborating, exploring options, mediating, educating, and receiving ongoing support for your changing family. Effective coaching sets a foundation for successful transitions, leading to healthy, thriving children, teens, and adults. If everyone is going to be healthy, then everyone matters. So, you may want to consider the following:

• Building strategies to support your children through divorce/separation, strengthening your self-care, and setting intentions for your co-parenting relationship and two-home family.
• Starting off right: "How will you tell the kids"? Starting off on the right foot for this major family transition.
• Developing a residential schedule / parenting plan. Making agreements that can be used in preparation for a legal parenting plan.
• Considering the Collaborative Divorce for your divorce -a non-adversarial, respectful alternative to "fighting" through divorce.

The question isn't, "Will we co-parent?" The question is, "How skillfully will we co-parent?"