New Ways for Families is a therapeutic intervention program for parents during or after a divorce. The goal of NWFF is to provide parents with skills for making decisions, communication, and planning for their children’s long-term wellbeing. I am a trained NWFF Individual Skills and Parent-Child Counselor.

The NWFF program is divided into two parts: Individual Skills Counseling and Parent-Child Counseling. During the individual portion of the program, I help parents learn skills to prevent or manage co-parent or caregiver conflict. In the second portion of the program, I help parents teach these skills to their children in order to prevent conflict during the divorce process from causing long-term damage to the parent-child relationship.

Parents can choose to engage the NWFF program voluntarily or by court-order.

More information, including information about costs, can be found on the Institute for Couple Enhancement website.

I offer services as a trained Mental Health Neutral (MHP) in the Collaborative Divorce process to help families navigate the most challenging time in their life with integrity, respect, and efficiency.

I became a Marriage and Family Therapist due to my passion and commitment to helping couples and families learn to have the healthiest relationships possible. In some cases and for a wide variety of reasons, parents and couples find that the best way to develop or maintain a healthy relationship with one another is by divorcing.

Couples and/or parents who are divorcing often risk finding themselves at the center of adversarial litigation that causes a great deal of pain and suffering for themselves and for their children as they navigate family courts.

Collaborative Divorce offers a different path to separating families that prioritizes a healthy co-parenting relationship post-divorce. It is unique in that it is private, client led, future-focused, structured to allow for honest negotiations, child-focused, and can be cost-efficient.

Parenting coordination services focus on reducing parental conflict so that children are free to thrive emotionally and relationally.

Parenting coordination is a confidential service and is usually court-ordered.

In my role as parent coordinator, I operate as a neutral, confidential, objective person to whom parents can turn when they cannot agree on decisions related to their children. I support parents’ adjusting to life after divorce by helping them develop skills to facilitate parenting across two households, including healthy communication and conflict management. I also help parents implement or agree on changes to their parenting plan that address current and future issues related to raising children between two homes.

Parenting facilitation services are very similar to parenting coordinaton services in that the focus is on reducing parent conflict and increasing understanding. The biggest difference between the two is that parenting facilitation services are NOT confidential.

Parenting facilitation is usually a court-ordered service that supports parents abilities to understand and implement their parenting plan.

In my role as a parent facilitator, I assist parents in navigating disputes related to parenting across two homes and their parenting plan. I make reports and, in some cases, recommendations to the court as a neutral party when parents cannot agree. My goal is to help parents reach agreements themselves that support both their relationship as co-parents and that support the parent-child relationship.