Collaborative Opportunities
A new approach to conflict resolution
Co-Parenting Counseling/Mediation
Maintaining healthy relationships after divorce and separation is a challenging task for parents, and Collaborative Opportunities helps parents meet this challenge.
Maintaining healthy relationships after divorce and separation is a challenging task for parents, and Collaborative Opportunities helps parents meet this challenge.
Our mission is to help parents maintain healthy family relationships and promote resilience in their children after separation and divorce.
Co-Parenting Counseling/Mediation is focused on helping separating and divorcing parents craft a child-centered Co-Parenting Plan that is tailored to the unique needs of each family, and will promote cooperative co-parenting, and emotionally safe and healthy homes for the children. Your co-parenting plan may include both short and long term agreements and can be modified according to the changing needs of your family. Co-parenting counseling will help parents improve parenting skills, manage conflict and promote healthy adjustment for their children.
Whether you are about to divorce, are newly divorced or have been divorced for some time, your family has changed. That transition, from a pre-divorce to a post-divorce family, requires ongoing attention. Whether you decided to divorce or it was decided for you, life can feel uncertain, perhaps overwhelming and even possibly exciting as new doors open. You may wonder how to go about putting this next new phase of your life into action. You may be having trouble putting your disappointment, anger and hurt aside so your children can experience your divorce with a minimum of upset and confusion. Emotionally supportive counseling can help adults and children begin to heal and develop positive relationships in the reconfigured family.
Whether you are about to divorce, are newly divorced or have been divorced for some time, your family has changed. That transition, from a pre-divorce to a post-divorce family, requires ongoing attention. Whether you decided to divorce or it was decided for you, life can feel uncertain, perhaps overwhelming and even possibly exciting as new doors open. You may wonder how to go about putting this next new phase of your life into action. You may be having trouble putting your disappointment, anger and hurt aside so your children can experience your divorce with a minimum of upset and confusion. Emotionally supportive counseling can help adults and children begin to heal and develop positive relationships in the reconfigured family.
In co-parenting counseling/mediation, parents have the opportunity to discuss and decide together how, what and when they will tell the children about the changing family and how they will strive to co-parent consistently and predictably for your children.
We know divorce can be a very trying experience for children. We also know when done thoughtfully and without conflict, when children can experience a minimum of disruption to their lives and know what is going to happen to them, when they can love both parents without fear of reprisal or hurt feelings by the other parent, they can be amazingly resilient and do quite well. The hardest thing for them is to feel caught between both parents and afraid to hurt or lose the love of either one of you. When you both decide to make your children your top priority, it helps you to guide your divorce.
We know divorce can be a very trying experience for children. We also know when done thoughtfully and without conflict, when children can experience a minimum of disruption to their lives and know what is going to happen to them, when they can love both parents without fear of reprisal or hurt feelings by the other parent, they can be amazingly resilient and do quite well. The hardest thing for them is to feel caught between both parents and afraid to hurt or lose the love of either one of you. When you both decide to make your children your top priority, it helps you to guide your divorce.
