CHILD INCLUSIVE PARENT COACHING

for separated & divorcing parents

• Minimize the negative impact of divorce for your children by planning for their needs

• Listen to the voice(s) of your child(ren), as mom and dad re-structure the family

• Create an effective parenting plan unique to age, stage, and family circumstances

• Build your ability to work together as parents

• Disengage from struggles with one another as you rebuild separate lives

This 5-10 hour consultation is based on an Australian program with documented success in helping parents remain sensitive to their children's voices while the parents undergo divorce.  Direct input from children may be obtained through child-focused interviews.  Parents are then coached to develop a parenting plan in view of this feedback, together with psycho-educational input on children and divorce. This personalized process builds on the Parenting After Separation program offered through Alberta Family Justice Services.  While child-inclusive parent coaching is appropriate for many, it is not appropriate in situations of very high conflict and/or violence.

 

Parent coaching can also assist in introducing  new partners sensitively to children and ex-partners, and for managing blended family situations.

 

For this coaching, I draw on my many years experience with children and families, as well as my training in family mediation and child custody evaluation.  I am recognized as an expert witness in Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta.