d> Co-Parenting Counseling - Susan B. Garfield, LICSW

Co-Parenting Counseling

Pain to Positive Relationship

Regardless of what contributed to the separation, I help you as parents to look forward, not behind, to focus on raising your children. This facilitates disengaging from your emotional relationship and entering more of a business relationship where you respectfully share in the business of raising your children.

Child Issues

You may not have had control over the demise of your relationship, but you are now empowered to determine your children’s one and only childhood.

Children need to feel safe and loved in both homes. Studies have shown that children thrive best when they benefit from what each parent… and their network and supports… have to offer them. In doing so, they emerge well-adjusted and more satisfied with their new normal.

It is your divorce, not theirs. Your children count on you to continue to parent them. Your actions now will shape your children’s future. I help you to shield children from conflict and negativity.

Communication Issues

Are you concerned about how best to communicate with your ex? Are your children now in the middle?

Learn to positively communicate concerns in a forum where you share feedback and cooperatively parent the children you share. I provide a safe venue to communicate respectfully about the best interests and specific needs of your children in a neutral calm environment.

Together, we agree on a healthy communication system to help solve future conflicts, thereby
establishing a new normal of positive communication, facilitating responsible and child-focused joint decision-making.

How I Help

Parents who are separating can have a difficult time putting their differences aside and making decisions in their children’s best interest.

Providing knowledge of child development and experience with working with divorcing couples, co-parenting counseling can be extremely helpful to divorcing couples in making decisions before, during and after the separation.

Guidance regarding how and when to best communicate decisions to the children, as well as planning for the continuity of care of the children can ease tension and conflict, and help parents to work together for the well-being of their children.

Let’s Work Together!

If you are stuck in your co-parenting relationship and not sure how to move forward, co-parenting counseling can help. I encourage you to contact me below for a free telephone consultation to see if I can be of help!