Learning to work as a team with your former spouse or partner to parent your children can be a challenge. Co-parenting Counseling helps assist co-parents navigate building a positive working relationship with one another to benefit their shared children. While co-parenting counseling isn’t a substitute for mediation or other legal, proceedings it can be a safe context to explore together ways to develop shared values, best practices for communication moving forward, ways to help make mutual decisions for their children and helping support one another through the challenging shared task of raising a child. 

Co-Parenting Counseling hopes to empower parents to minimize the impact of their divorce or separation on their children. It’s best suited for couples who seek to amicably sort through the potential challenges and obstacles of childrearing together while choosing not to remain romantically involved. 

Co-Parenting Counseling Involves Discussing: 

Roles and expectations between co-parents moving forward

Best methods and means of communication 

Ways to address challenges and make decisions together

Navigating and preserving family traditions, special occasions, school dynamics, and family relationships 

How to handle parents dating, remarrying, or having additional children in the future.

The decision to end a relationship is never easy. Co-Parent Counseling seeks to help provide a supportive framework and intentional conversations between a couple as they are in the process of ending their relationship to help navigate this challenging time with purpose and intention. Its goal is to make the divorce or break-up process as amicable and smooth as possible while also creating space for the painful and challenging feelings that may arise. Co-Parent Counseling allows for mutual respect and guidance for the decisions and changes that come with that decision.

If you are seeking support in navigating the end of a relationship in a compassionate way that allows for mutual respect and guidance for all of the decisions and changes that will follow, co-parenting counseling may be helpful for you.