Coparenting
Coparent coaching is a service designed to help separated or divorced parents work together to raise their children in a healthy and supportive environment. Some key aspects of coparent coaching are:
- Communication Skills: Coaches help parents develop effective communication strategies to reduce conflict and misunderstandings.
- Parenting Plans: Coaches can support parent collaboration to draft parenting plans that fully consider the unique developmental and parenting needs of their children.
- Conflict Resolution: Coaches provide tools and techniques to resolve disputes, focusing on the best interests of the children.
- Emotional Support: Our coaches have the clinical training to offer emotional support and guidance to assist parents in navigating the challenges of co-parenting.
- Child-Focused: The primary focus for coparent coaches is the well-being and healthy development of children from separated families. This means ensuring that they receive the care, structure and support they need from their parents.
- Child and Parenting Specialists: Our coparent coaches have specialized training in the neuroscience of parenting as well as a solid understanding of how child development impacts children’s adjustment to separated homes.
While coparent coaching benefits parents who are trying to adjust post-separation by learning strategies to improve communication between them. The most important goal is to help separated parents to best support their children. Research shows us that children of separated families have increased risk factors in many areas that can negatively impact future functioning. Coparent coaches are committed to improving those impacts for the vulnerable children who are trying to navigate two family homes and the separated parenting dynamics. These children are also dealing with their own adjustment to the changing circumstances.
Some benefits of Coparenting Coaching include:
- reduced conflict between the parents
- reduced conflict between the parents and children
- provides guidance to parents about how to better emotionally support their child through their struggles and the changes that happen when parents separate
- promotes healthy adjustment for all family members
- assist in building a Parenting Plan that works for kids and parents.
Allius Services serves clients across Nanaimo, Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Ladysmith, Chemainus, Port Alberni, and the surrounding areas.