Co-Parenting, Divorce & Parenting Agreement Support
Virtual therapy and collaborative support for co-parenting conflicts, high-conflict divorce, and parenting agreement facilitation in Florida, California, and Tennessee.
The Relationship Ends. The Parenting Doesn't.
The Relationship Ends. The Parenting Doesn't.
Divorce or separation changes almost everything. Your living situation. Your finances. Your daily routine. Your identity. What it does not change is that you are still raising a child with this person, and that part doesn't come with an exit.
For couples who are still together but struggling to parent as a team, the friction is different but just as real. You love each other and you cannot agree on how to raise your kid without it turning into something bigger than it needs to be.
Whether you are separating, already separated, in the middle of a high-conflict dynamic, or simply two people who parent very differently and need a structured space to work through it, this is the work.
Who This Page Is For
This page is for three groups of people, and you may be more than one of them at different points:
Couples who are still together and need co-parenting support: not couples therapy, but a focused space to work through parenting decisions, disagreements about discipline or routines, differing values, and the tension that builds when two people parent differently under the same roof.
Individuals navigating divorce or separation: processing the emotional weight of uncoupling, managing your own responses in a high-conflict dynamic, protecting your children from the fallout, and figuring out who you are on the other side of a relationship that defined a significant part of your life.
Former partners seeking collaborative support: working together, with therapeutic facilitation, to build or repair a functional co-parenting relationship, work through sticking points in parenting agreements, and create a structure that actually holds so your children don't have to hold it for you.
Co-Parenting Support for Couples Who Are Together
Parenting disagreements between partnered couples are some of the most common and most corrosive sources of relationship tension. They feel personal because they are. Your parenting reflects your values, your upbringing, your fears, and your deepest instincts. When your partner does it differently, it can feel like a fundamental incompatibility, even when it isn't.
You may be navigating:
Disagreements about discipline, screen time, routines, or boundaries
One parent feeling undermined or overridden by the other
Tension around how much involvement extended family has
Different emotional styles and what that means for your kids
One parent carrying more of the mental load and building resentment about it
Parenting a child with complex needs when you and your partner aren't on the same page about how to respond
This work is not couples therapy, though it can run alongside it. It's focused, practical, and aimed at helping you function as a parenting team, even when you're not seeing eye to eye on everything else.
Divorce & Separation Support
Divorce is one of the most disorienting experiences a person can go through, even when it was the right call. It is a grief process that doesn't get nearly enough acknowledgment, because you are mourning a relationship, a future, a version of your family, and sometimes a version of yourself, often while being expected to function at full capacity for your children, your job, and everyone around you.
Individual therapy during divorce provides a space to:
Process grief, anger, relief, guilt, and ambivalence without needing to perform a particular emotion
Manage your nervous system in a high-conflict dynamic so you can respond instead of react
Protect your children from the emotional spillover; not by suppressing your experience, but by having somewhere to put it
Navigate the identity shift of becoming a single parent or co-parent when that wasn't the plan
Rebuild a sense of self that isn't defined by the relationship that ended
High-conflict divorce is its own category
If you are dealing with a co-parent who is unpredictable, dismissive, manipulative, or actively difficult, the therapeutic work is less about processing grief and more about building a sustainable structure for yourself so you can stay regulated, protect your kids, and stop letting someone else's chaos run your life.
You may be experiencing:
Constant anxiety around communication with your co-parent
Feeling like you're always one text away from being destabilized
Documenting everything and still feeling like nothing is safe
Your children coming home dysregulated after the other household
Difficulty trusting your own perception of what is and isn't reasonable
Exhaustion from carrying the emotional and logistical weight of two households
Collaborative Co-Parenting & Parenting Agreement Facilitation
Sometimes what former partners need is not individual therapy but a structured, facilitated space to work through the practical and emotional sticking points of co-parenting together. This is not legal mediation and does not produce a legally binding document, but it is therapeutically facilitated collaboration that can help two people who are no longer in a relationship build a working parenting framework.
This might look like:
Working through a specific disagreement about schedules, holidays, or transitions
Building communication agreements so interactions stay child-focused and functional
Developing shared language around parenting decisions so kids aren't caught in the middle
Processing enough of the relational residue that you can actually be in the same room or the same email thread, without it escalating
Identifying what each of you needs to feel respected as a parent so you can give that to each other, even when it's hard
This work requires both parties to be willing participants. It is not appropriate in situations involving active domestic violence or coercive control. If you are unsure whether this format is right for your situation, reach out and we can talk through it.
What Therapy Helps With Across All of These
Regardless of where you are in this process, the therapeutic work tends to center on the same core capacities:
Staying regulated enough to make decisions from your values, not your fear or anger
Communicating in ways that don't escalate, even when the other person does
Separating your identity as a person from your identity as a co-parent or ex-partner
Holding the complexity of loving your children fiercely while finding the other parent genuinely difficult
Building a life that feels sustainable and yours, not just a life organized around managing someone else
A Note on Children
Children do not need their parents to be friends. They need their parents to be functional. The research on divorce and children is clear on one point above all others: it is not the divorce itself that causes the most harm. It is sustained conflict, and the degree to which children feel caught between the adults in their lives.
The most protective thing you can do for your child is not to pretend everything is fine. It is to do your own work so they don't have to carry yours.
Let's Work Together
Whether you need individual support, co-parenting facilitation (or both) virtual sessions are available in Florida, California, and Tennessee. If you're not sure which format is right for your situation, reach out and we can figure it out together