A Co-Working Session is a structured opportunity to engage in focused work with support and encouragement from others online.  It involves an introduction followed by two or three parallel work sessions, check-ins and a wrap up.  These sessions aim to help participants improve focus on a specific goal/task, improve performance and facilitate accountability.  They are offered as a support to clients engaged in other services.  

A Collaborative Divorce Coach is the family transition specialist serving as a neutral member of a team of professionals conducting a collaborative divorce.  Their specific duties are negotiated on a case by case basis and outlined in the Collaborative Divorce Agreement.  Collaborative Divorce Coaches often perform the following roles:   

• provides education for parents about the transition from marriage to co-parenting and a thorough overview of co-parenting best practices.

• helps parents to manage the often intense emotions that result from the factors that contributed to the decision to separate, the uncertainty of the new parenting arrangement, and the necessity to establish the next chapter of life.

• helps parents to recognize any unproductive patterns that continue to plague parents and sabotage the functioning of their new working relationship. 

• facilitates clear communication between divorcing parties throughout the process and establishes productive communication processes to improve the current situation and to prevent future problems.

• provides conflict coaching to both parties (both prevention and intervention).

• assists parents in keeping focus on the needs of their child/ren throughout the process.  

• provides voice to the children's needs and experience throughout the divorce if a child advocate is not a member of the team of professionals.

• facilitates creation of the parenting plan if a parenting plan mediator is not a member of the collaborative divorce team.  

Co-Parents may elect to have their communication monitored in effort to help them improve how they communication with each other when having to work together to carry out their parenting plan or court ordered responsibilities. Parents who want to participate in communication coaching are required to utilize a co-parenting communication app that allows for third party professionals to have access to their communications.  Parents are trained on co-parent communication best practices and agree to uphold strict communication standards.  If a communication is violated, a parent can request that the coach reviews the specific interaction, the coach reviews the transcript, and as needed provides comments and feedback, requires corrective or reparative action, and imposes predetermined consequences as appropriate. 

This service is a combination of parent coaching, parent education and monitored parenting time for co-parents who have scheduled virtual parenting time with their children.  We utilize the Nurturing Parenting curriculum promoted by the Supervised Visitation Network.  Based on the assessed needs of the family, parents and the parenting coach will work together and select competency based lessons from the curriculum to form an intervention that is customized to meet the specific needs of the particular family.  

The parenting coach will meet with a parent before that parent's scheduled parenting time for 30 minutes of parent coaching and parent education.  The parenting coach will then observe the parenting time session and look for opportunities to apply parenting skills, self-regulation, co-regulation and interpersonal connection while promoting safety, security and stability.  After the parenting time session, the coach will debrief with the parent for about 20 minutes.  The parent will receive up to an hour of parent coaching and parent education and up to one hour of monitored parenting time each session.  

This service allows for children to have contact with both parents, for prevention efforts to occur that aim to increase the safety and security of the child and his/her parents.  

This service is a combination of parent coaching, parent education and monitoring for co-parents who have difficulty setting up and carrying out peaceful scheduled parent-child communication sessions.  The Parenting Coach will meet with both parents for 15 minutes prior to the scheduled Parent-Child Communication Session occurring, remotely monitor the communication session, and then meet with each parent for 15 minutes after the session if any safety issues arise related to that communication session.    

This service enables children to have consistent contact with their other parent.  The service increases the likelihood that the communication will be child focused and constructive in nature.  It also provides proof that the scheduled sessions have occurred and the documentation of ongoing issues/concerns as applicable.  

This service is a combination of parent coaching, parent education and monitoring for co-parents who have difficulty setting up and carrying out the peaceful, non-eventful exchange of the children between households.  The Parenting Coach will meet with both parents for 15 minutes prior to the scheduled exchange occurring, remotely monitor the exchange, and again meet with each parent for 15 minutes after the exchange if any safety issues arise related to that exchange.    

This service enables children to have consistent contact with their other parent.  The service increases the likelihood that the exchange will be child focused and occur as scheduled.  It also provides proof that the exchanges have occurred and the documentation of ongoing issues/concerns as applicable.