Divorce and co-parenting counseling helps parents work through separation and build a workable plan for raising their children in two homes. Our clinicians support you in managing the emotional weight of divorce, communicating with your co-parent, and keeping your children’s needs at the center. Sessions are available in person and online.
Divorce ends a marriage, but parenting continues. Moving from partners to co-parents is a significant change, and it often arrives alongside grief, anger, and logistical pressure. Therapy gives you a steady place to work through those feelings, so they are less likely to spill into your parenting, and to plan how you want to handle schedules, communication, and decisions about your children.
How Divorce & Co-Parenting Counseling Works
We begin by understanding your situation: where you are in the process, how you and your co-parent communicate now, and what your children are experiencing. Some parents come together, and others begin individually, depending on what feels workable and safe.
From there, your clinician helps you build practical agreements for everyday life, such as schedules, hand-offs, communication, and parenting decisions, and supports you in handling the emotions that make those conversations hard. The aim is a plan that reduces conflict and keeps your children’s needs first.
What We Help With
Processing the Divorce
Working through grief, anger, guilt, and uncertainty, so these feelings are less likely to shape your parenting.
Co-Parenting Communication
Talking with a former partner about schedules, decisions, and concerns in ways that stay calm and focused on the children.
Parenting Plans and Schedules
Building routines across two homes, including hand-offs, holidays, and flexibility when plans change.
Talking With Your Children
Deciding how and when to share changes with your children in a way that fits their ages.
Supporting Your Children’s Adjustment
Noticing how your children are coping and helping them adjust to new routines and two households.
New Partners and Blended Families
Introducing new partners and adjusting to step-parent roles and blended households.
Approaches We Use
Parallel and Collaborative Parenting
Identifies which model fits your current relationship, from close coordination to parallel parenting with limited contact when conflict is high.
Transition Planning
Concrete plans for hand-offs, communication, and the first year of two-household living.
Communication Skills
Practices clear, brief, respectful communication, including how to respond when a conversation becomes tense.
Individual Support for Parents
Gives you space to process the effects of divorce, so they are less likely to affect your co-parenting.
What to Expect
You don’t need to have it all figured out before you reach out.
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A Free Consultation
We will talk briefly about your family’s situation and what you hope will change, then match you with a clinician.
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Getting to Know Your Situation
Your clinician meets with you, and with your co-parent when that is appropriate, to understand your circumstances, your children’s needs, and your goals. Some parents begin individually.
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Building and Practicing Your Plan
Sessions are usually weekly to start, 45–60 minutes. You work on communication and agreements in session, try them at home, and adjust as you go.
Care That Connects Across Specialties
- If you want your own support through the divorce, individual therapy for adults is available.
- If your child is having a hard time with the changes, child and adolescent therapy is available.
- If your child expresses feelings more easily through creative work, art and play therapy offers another way in.
- If routines and behavior across two homes are a challenge, parenting support for behavior and routines can help.
- If you want support for your own parenting, parent-focused therapy is available.
- If the family would benefit from working together, family therapy offers a shared space.
