Parenting Coordinator
When there have been more significant obstacles to effective co-parenting and when the co-parenting relationship is of higher conflict, a Parenting Coordinator may be needed. A Parenting Coordinator gets to know you as parents and often your children as well. A “PC” has more authority to intervene with parents than a Divorce Coach or Co-Parent Counsellor.
The majority of the work is done through e-mail with the potential of some online video sessions if appropriate.
Collaborative Divorce Coach
When people first start the separation or divorce process, aside from contacting a lawyer, they might first engage with a Divorce Coach.
It’s one of the first places where you might begin to start unraveling the story of how you got to the point of separating and the beginning of looking at building your new future for you and your children.
It’s a place to process the emotional impact of separating, manage the grief and loss, and look toward creating a new family configuration. It’s a place to consider how to support your children to transition smoothly from one household to two homes. And… to move toward a dialogue with your spouse about what co-parenting will look like in terms of a parenting plan.
Co-Parent Counselling
Co-parent counselling is just what it sounds like.
Some parents don’t use divorce coaches, but they still need support in order to work together to co-parent their children.
While, for some, this may entail sorting out a parenting plan if they haven’t done so in a divorce coaching type of situation or with their lawyers. For many it’s having a safe place to have the ongoing dialogue with your co-parent, with someone to facilitate it and to help keep you on the same page. It may also be a place to address any gaps or grey areas in a Final Order or parenting plan.
