WHAT IS CO-PARENTING COUNSELING

WHAT IS CO-PARENTING COUNSELING?

Co-parenting counseling arises when divorced partners with children seek a therapist’s advice on effectively raising their kids. It equips parents with adequate knowledge and skills in sharing parental responsibilities. The counseling entails setting fair terms on how to co-parent and how the ex-lovers can communicate effectively, prevent conflicts, and better their kids’ futures.

What Are the Benefits?

From my experiences, co-parent counseling can help lower or prevent arguments and conflicts in parents for the sake of their children. It improves conflict management skills in parents, focuses on the kid’s needs, and increases parents’ awareness of the need to have better relations as they raise the family outside the wedlock.

Helps children to cope with the mental and physical stress of their parent’s separation. Parents learn how to take their children through the divorce process.

Fosters better communication, relationship, and cooperation among parents.

How Common Is It?

Co-parenting counseling is common in separated parents who cannot develop proper terms on how to raise their kids, which can be after a judge’s order or agreements between parents.

What Happens During Co-Parenting Counseling?

Normally a co-parenting counselor evaluates and identifies the issues causing conflicts, lack of communication, and disagreements in the co-parenting strategy. They then educate them on how to handle conflicts, better their communication approach respectfully, and help them set an effective co-parenting plan. This includes all important life issues that might need both parents’ approvals from education, birthdays, and how to solve future obstacles.

Charlotte Cremers
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MS, University of Tartu
Sleep specialist

Using the acquired academic and professional experience, I advise patients with various complaints about mental health - depressed mood, nervousness, lack of energy and interest, sleep disorders, panic attacks, obsessive thoughts and anxieties, difficulty concentrating, and stress. In my free time, I love to paint and go on long walks on the beach. One of my latest obsessions is sudoku – a wonderful activity to calm an unease mind.

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