Families Experiencing Custody or Divorce Challenges

We’re proud to support children of all ages in our community. However, when parents are navigating divorce, custody, or parenting disputes, therapy can quickly become complicated—and children can feel caught in the middle.

Before scheduling, your child ask yourself:

• Am I seeking therapy to help my child—or to validate my concerns about the other parent?
• Have I prepared the other parent to receive and respond to consent paperwork?
• Is my child likely to feel pressure to “pick sides” or please one parent over the other?

“Before you PUSH for therapy, ASK: Am I pushing for peace—or power?”

• Inform both parents of therapy
• Plan shared consent and agree on a therapist as a family.
• Upload court docs to show you have the legal right to schedule without the other parent.
• Share the purpose of therapy honestly with your family.
• Honor your child’s emotional space

Our clinic will not proceed with individual or family sessions if shared legal custody is in dispute or consent is not obtained. Let’s keep therapy about your child’s healing—not adult conflict. Here is a link that may help navigate disputes

• I-Push  .......     You-Push ........    We-All-Push ........   FOR PEACE :)

If you have ongoing dispute, consider making an appointment for you and the other parent to attend together to work through your disputes before getting your children involved in the therapy process. If you prematurely enter your kids into therapy and you have ongoing disputes, this often makes the kids not want to go to therapy in the future. This could be detrimental to their mental health if they feel that therapy is a place for battles or a place where their information could be shared in a court full of people. This is no joke! Kids have committed suicide and died from drug overdose because their parents would not agree to disagree, in a custody dispute.

Our providers do not make letters of recommendation to the courts in favor of either parent.

• We love Peace Pushers!