Co-parent counselling helps separated or divorced parents work together more effectively to support their children’s well-being. It focuses on improving communication, managing conflict, and creating consistent parenting plans. This counselling aims to reduce stress for both parents and kids by fostering cooperation, understanding, and respect in the co-parenting relationship.  Using an Internal Family System lens, along with Family Systems and AFCC strategies, the goal is to create and maintain a healthy co-parent relationship.

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Areas of focus that fall under the booking umbrella of Co-parent counselling include the following:

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A Note on Attendance

Individual counselling is a wonderful place to work on your co-parenting relationship in the absence of the additional parent attending.  Step-parents are allowed to attend if previously approved by all participating members.

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Co-parent counselling is not appropriate for:

• Situations involving ongoing domestic violence or abuse, where safety is a primary concern.

• High-conflict cases where communication is severely hostile or unsafe without first addressing individual trauma or anger management.

• Parents who are unwilling or unable to participate cooperatively in counselling.

• Situations where one parent is absent or uninvolved making joint sessions impractical.

• Cases requiring legal or custody interventions that go beyond therapeutic support.

 

In such cases, individual counselling, legal advice, or specialized support might be more suitable before or instead of co-parent counselling.