DIVORCE COUNSELING

Could You Use Some Additional Support Through Your Divorce?

Have you been recently separated or divorced and feeling overwhelmed, scared, confused, and anxious?

With your children as the top priority, are you and your ex committed to working out a mutually beneficial co-parenting plan but don’t know where to start?

Have you considered divorce counseling to help you reach shared goals and ensure relations between you remain cooperative and amicable?

Divorce is a devastating life event punctuated by loss, anger, sadness, and disruption. When children are in the mix, it compounds your fear and anxiety about what the future holds. You may feel guilty about splitting up the family and worry over how the divorce will impact their well-being in the long term. Naturally, it can be challenging to focus on their welfare when you are simultaneously struggling with your own emotional fallout.

The Emotional Turmoil Of Divorce Often Coincides With Significant Decision-Making

At a time when you are still reeling from the anguish of divorce, you might be called upon to make important decisions about your family, from creating co-parenting schedules to splitting up assets. Not only are you dealing with the logistics of who will live where, but you’re also having to manage any emotional damage these decisions could have on your kids. The resulting pressure to navigate this trying time could lead to anxiety, loss of sleep, and isolation, especially if you’re trying to muscle through your divorce alone and not burden others.

If you and your ex are concerned about how best to help your children through this transition, you’re likely seeking an unbiased party to help you develop an agreeable game plan for moving forward. Fortunately, divorce counseling offers the guidance, support, and direction you need to not only create a mutually beneficial co-parenting strategy but also work through the difficult emotions coming up for you, thereby allowing you to find common ground more easily.

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Divorce Doesn’t Have To Be Contentious Or Isolating

Despite the challenges involved, some couples successfully navigate an amicable breakup and devise a workable co-parenting schedule. These days, there’s been a move toward less contentious divorce proceedings that minimize the use of attorneys, especially the ones who take an adversarial approach to marriage dissolution. Rather than subjecting themselves to a gut-wrenching, messy divorce, couples are favoring the concept of conscious uncoupling to help keep their family emotionally intact.

Nevertheless, couples undergoing separation or divorce are often unsupported because they tend not to share what’s going on with friends and family. This is often due to embarrassment, shame, and a fear of judgment. Without a strong support network in place, the challenges of divorce are compounded, making it more difficult for parents to ensure that the emotional impact on their children is eased as much as possible.

Although you might feel hopeless and emotionally overwhelmed at this stage, with the support of a divorce therapist, you can mitigate any collateral damage that could impact you and your family. If you’re willing to set aside your differences and collaborate in the children’s best interests, you can reach the other side of divorce amicably.

Divorce Counseling Can Make A Positive Difference For Your Family, Both In The Short- And Long-Term

At this highly emotional time, having a third party to assist with hashing out the co-parenting plan can prove to be invaluable, both for your children as well as yourselves. Especially if you are still going through divorce proceedings and things between you have become tense, it’s all the more reason to seek neutral support. When emotions get in the way, it’s important to address them and regain stability so you can settle on the most practical solutions that benefit your children.

The good news is that most of the time, the divorced couples I work with have already found some effective solutions on their own, even if they haven’t realized it yet. In divorce counseling, we will address both practical and overarching guidance while also exploring the details of your situation to ensure that everything is resolved.

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What To Expect In Sessions

With a mixture of joint couples and individual counseling sessions, each of you will get a chance to share your intended goals for divorce counseling and process the mixed emotions you may be feeling. Once you have healed emotional wounds, you will be in a better headspace to negotiate, compromise, and make decisions that prioritize your children’s comfort and security. After collaborating on a co-parenting plan, we will course-correct and modify it as needed.

If you’re like most parents, you’re probably concerned about your child’s mental health and well-being post-divorce. My experience has shown that individual counseling for children can be helpful, especially if they are dealing with the aftermath of witnessing arguments or living with the unspoken tension between you and your ex in the lead-up to your separation and/or divorce.

Coparenting Therapy Ensures Your Kids Come First

In therapy customized for divorced parents, we will apply effective techniques, such as communication skills and self-reflection, that can help support you as you navigate the “new normal” of your post-divorce family. Utilizing the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help parents going through divorce challenge engrained beliefs they may be holding about each other that may interfere with successful co-parenting collaboration.

As an experienced divorce counselor, I have successfully guided many couples throughout the conscious uncoupling process to ensure they stay on course with co-parenting as the subsequent weeks, months, and years unfold. After the tumult of divorce, therapy can help you develop collaborative skills that support your children’s emotional stability and help them adapt to the new family dynamic more smoothly. When you and your ex can get along during family gatherings and celebrations moving forward, your children will feel more secure, happy, and well-adjusted.

But Maybe You’re Not Sure If Divorce Counseling Is Right For You…

Before working with a therapist, we want to make sure they have experience related to divorce and co-parenting.

In my practice, I have worked with couples and families for close to four decades. With counseling, I have successfully guided couples to develop successful co-parenting plans post-divorce that are often more well thought out and intentional than when they were married. The support and guidance provided with therapy make it possible to create an amicable relationship after divorce, where the kids feel supported, loved, secure, and stable.

We don’t want to work with a divorce counselor who takes sides.

To be successful at counseling for divorced parents, it’s crucial the therapist remains a neutral third party who supports the welfare of the children first and foremost. In addition to laying out a co-parenting plan, we can incorporate individual counseling to help each of you sort through any emotional guilt, shame, fear, depression, or anxiety you may be dealing with and assist you in achieving your goals. In therapy for divorced parents, my goals are the same as yours—to ensure the family unit can still thrive even after things change.

My partner doesn’t think co-parenting counseling for divorced parents is necessary, but I do.

Meaningful change can happen, even if only one parent is willing to participate in divorce therapy. In individual counseling, you will learn how to respond differently to your partner for greater effect and show empathy, support, genuineness, and concern toward your kids. By being an effective role model for them, you will demonstrate how to move on and handle life when things don’t go as planned. Even if your ex doesn’t agree to participate, you can mitigate any future emotional damage to your children and strengthen their emotional quotient.

Receiving Unbiased Guidance Throughout Your Divorce Makes A Difference

You don’t have to navigate the intricacies of separation without support. To schedule a free 15-minute consultation to find out more about online divorce counseling with me, please call (954) 802-1601 or visit my contact page.

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