Coparent Counseling & Support Group
Anxiety About Coparenting
Will we be able to make it work?
You are trying to be the bigger person and co-parent in the best possible way but you are receiving resistance from the other parent or you can't seem to get past your own emotions.
Co-Parenting Counseling is for parents, whether divorced, separated, or together, that are having a difficult time coming to an agreement on how to parent their children effectively. When parents divorce or separate, many have a challenging time getting past the loss of the relationship, the intense feelings of hurt, anger, regret, guilt and grief to find common ground to create a healthy transition and environment for the children. Other parents that are still married or together may have difficulty finding common ground on how to parent their children without sending mixed messages to the children. Co-Parenting counseling will help you discuss parenting methods, belief systems about parenting, and working through the emotions and feelings dealing separation or disagreements centered about you and your partner's parenting.
What is High Conflict Co-Parenting Counseling?
Benefits of Coparent Counseling
Benefits of Co-Parenting Counseling?
Parenting counseling offers you a way to reduce stress, understand and recognize your triggers and decrease conflict. This can be done by learning how to cope with change, resistance, and emotional triggers. Counseling for parents can help you release your child from negative feelings of disloyalty, acting out, being alienated from the other parent, and have a better sense of self and confidence.
Co-Parenting Counseling will allow you to learn about and share with others your experience in:
The Challenges of Parenting Alone or in a Blended Family
Preventing and Resolving Conflicts
Improve Communication with your Child/Spouse/Ex-Spouse
Process Feelings of Resentment/Anger/Sadness/Guilt
Behavioral Changes within Yourself or Your Child
Prevent or Stop Parental Alienation
Common Consequences of Toxic Coparenting
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Loyalty Bond
A loyalty bond occurs when a coparent uses manipulation, usually due to feelings of loss of control or extreme feelings of resentment, to guide their children to take their side against the other coparent and cutting off that parent. This causes the children to suffer physically and emotionally.
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Abandonment
Some high conflict coparenting situations are so toxic and emotionally, mentally, and physically damaging that some parents decide to cut off communication from the toxic parent and thus disconnecting from the children and abandoning them.
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Borderline Personality Traits
Coparenting can bring out the worst in people. Although the parent may not be diagnosed with BPD, some parents exhibit similar traits that you may have seen or never experienced with them before like explosive unwarranted rage, vindictive, fear of abandonment & mood swings.
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Narcissistic Personality Traits
Another common personality change that show up in coparenting are narcissistic traits. Although the parent may not be diagnosed with NPD, some parents exhibit similar traits that you may have seen or never experienced with them before like gaslighting, lack of empathy, self-absorbed, entitlement, demeaning actions or comments while trying to seem superior and/or charming and projecting a perception of being well put together.
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Parental Alienation
Children can be subjected to a coparent, purposely and with ill-intent, deny the child’s interaction with the targeted parent by cutting off all communication and contact or by relentless criticism of the other parent that will persuade the child to not want to interact with the targeted parent thus blaming the child for the lack of or desire to see the targeted parent.
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Boundary Violation
Boundaries are often broken when trying to coparent during high conflict. After parents have decided to separate or divorce, it can present a problem on how to navigate the type of access and amount of access to give without sacrificing your own boundaries or your children’s boundaries. This also presents the problem of a coparent undermining rules and boundaries that are in place to rear, guide, and protect the child.
How I Can Help…
I provide a space of understanding and non-judgment within a support group to help parents that are just having a hard time coping with co-parenting. I offer an approach to sort through all the emotions that are aiding the conflict and help you create a home environment that is positive for you and your child. I am here to support you with moving on with your life and acquire the skills to needed to build a strong bond with your child, have the skills to effectively communicate, and resolve conflicts. With online group therapy, coparent counseling can easily be fit into your hectic day and be conducted in a private, safe space of your choice.
Divorce Attorneys | Mediator | Guardian et Liem: Assisting Your Clients Through Their Conflict
We are apart of the team to help you help your clients.
Divorce attorneys, therapists and co-parent coaches can all agree that effective, realistic, and compassion-based shared-custody arrangements work well when both parents are responsive, proactive, cooperative, respectful, and agree on shared custody, and manage their behavior and emotions, especially in front of their kids.
Decisions made when parents are emotionally overcharged are difficult for all parties involved.
As a trained professional, mental health services frequently work in conjunction with the legal process. By helping co-parents managing the intense emotions that can be unleashed in the co-parent planning process we can be apart of a collaborative process that helps divorce attorneys help their clients come to a mutual resolution that is beneficial for the family. Coparenting Counseling helps extinguish some of the emotions that can get in the way of making the best parenting plan for the family, especially the children. Our job is to help the parents deal with the intense emotions so that you can help them create the best plan for their child.
Frustrated About Your Coparenting and you both can’t get on the same page?
It’s not easy to coparent with your ex under these circumstances. You have to have contact because of the children. But you need to learn to communicate more effectively, get support with the emotions and thoughts that are triggered. We can support & guide you through this.
Coparent counseling is available or Divorce Counseling can help. Begin getting the support you need through individual therapy or coparent support group by following these simple steps:
Reach out today and schedule a phone consultation with me.
Begin meeting with me for individual therapy, processing your emotions and learning new ways to interact with your ex.
Feel the freedom that can come when you are able to coparent with less stress.
Coparenting.
Redefined.
CONTACT ME TODAY TO GET STARTED
To find out how I can help, contact me for your phone, no-obligation consultation. The quickest way to reach me is to call my office cell 770-294-4006.
Other Online Mental Health Resources
Let’s face it COPARENTING IS HARD. Sometimes coparenting doesn’t work out because a parent has unresolved issues stemming from the relationship, separation, or divorce. Some issues may be come from past family history. It is important that things that are addressed and resolved to prevent them from impacting how you coparent. That is why I offer a wide range of mental health supports through my online counseling practice. In addition to relationship counseling, I also offer marriage counseling, premarital counseling and other individual counseling services for adults. Many people also benefit from the support of a group. It helps to know you aren’t alone. Therefore, I also offer a variety of support groups including a group for surviving breakups, a mom support group, coparent group and a divorce recovery group for men as well as a divorce recovery group for women. Whatever your need is, I can help you learn to connect with others in a healthier way. Please reach out and get the support you deserve.
Not Ready for Therapy Yet?
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Online Adult Therapy
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Anxiety Therapy
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Online Men's Groups
Online support group for men dealing with divorce, coparenting, and other life challenges.
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Online Women's Groups
Online support group for women and women color. Get support for breakups, motherhood struggles, and more.
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Relationship Counseling
Individual Counseling for adults having difficulty in their relationships.