Separation & Divorce
The Place for Counseling specializes in the multidimensional needs of divorced, separated and blended families.
We offer high quality therapy services for children and adults to provide support and assistance during this painful time. We understand the trauma and hurt that is caused to all members of your family and are here to help.
Our therapists have many years of experience working with families facing divorce and separation. We offers high quality treatment for children, parenting support and individual counseling services for adults.
This is why The Place for Counseling offers dispute resolution services such as Parenting Coordination which is designed to help parents learn to co-parent and make joint decisions for their children more successfully in order to mitigate court appearances. We also offer specialized services such as Reunification Therapy when there is a fracture in a relationship between a child and parent that is affecting or preventing time sharing.
Therapy for Children Dealing with Divorce
Divorce can be devastating to children and teens. Ongoing high conflict situations between parents can create debilitating emotional distress to children and teens.
Ways divorce and high conflict co-parenting affect kids:
Children feel responsible for their parents’ breakup.
Children feel that have to choose between their parents.
Children experience sadness, depression, excessive worry, and anxiety.
Normal developmental processes can be delayed or affected.
At the Place for Counseling, we have a proven track record of success treating children and teens struggling with their parents’ high conflict divorce, separation, and the ongoing aftermath that can continues for years.
The Place for Counseling provides individual therapy to children and teens and has training in many different approaches to meet the needs of every child. Therapy services with children are designed to create a safe place for children to explore their hurt and pain while developing skills to empower them to work through this tough time.
Parents are an essential part of the therapy process for children.
Parents and therapists need to communicate regularly to ensure the conflict between parents is not directly impacting their children. Sometimes this is occurring, and parents are not aware to what degree the children are being affected. Andrea works with both parents separately as needed to assist with strategies to support and shield their children from this conflict in an effective manner.
Many times relationships between the child and one, or both parents, has been dramatically affected or impaired by the division in the family. At the Place for Counseling we specialize in helping to heal and repair child/parent relationships. Many times this occurs in family therapy. Other times a more specialized court ordered process call reunification therapy is needed.
Therapy for Adults Going Through Relationship Issues or Divorce/Separation
The process of tough relationship issues, separation and divorce is terribly painful and traumatic. It effects your whole world and family in ways you never imagined. Having a seasoned and well-trained counselor to support you during this time will make a difference on how soon you start feeling like yourself again and how successful you will be at maintaining your overall well being.
On-going high conflict co-parenting issues can be unbearable.
Let us help you tackle your symptoms of sadness, anxiety, panic, and fear. These issues can stir up past traumatic experiences compounding the pain you are feeling. Having a safe place to explore these difficulties in order to develop successful coping skills can make all the difference. Many times, post-traumatic stress from past experiences can resurface with debilitating symptoms such as flash backs and nightmares making everything much more difficult. At The Place for Counseling, we have therapists with extensive training in trauma techniques to help decrease these symptoms and help you feel better and stay better.
Therapists Who Can Help
