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Parents in Transition

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Parents in Transition

There are several major life challenges our families can face. Separation, illness, death, job changes, dealing with developmental issues in our children; any of these can impact how we feel about ourselves and who we are as parent. When life throws these at us, emotions understandably run high and our creative thinking runs low. Instead of responding thoughtfully we tend to default back to old and unhelpful patterns such as respond to our spouse or children from a place of fear or anger.

 

Divorce is perhaps one of the most common and emotionally demanding life transitions you can go through. At times the tasks you must accomplish seem monumental. Ironically during one of the most stressful times in life, you need to function at a peak intellectual level to negotiate a separation with your former spouse, have the time, energy and compassion to be responsive to your children, bring in an income, and create a new home life all the while dealing with a truckload of emotions.

 

In this arena we support separating/divorcing couples as they work to set up two households, parenting plans, residential schedules and simply learn to navigate their new form of relationship as co-parents. We also help people who are entering into another marriage forming a blended family or bi-nuclear family. Our focus is to work with either individuals, the couple and/or the family to offer practical tools and insights as everyone strives to manage these challenges and create a new and stable life.

 

If you are facing any of these challenges such as health issues, death, job change or other life changes, you are likely experiencing major shifts in three key areas: comfort, stability and safety. How your family makes this transition is important and highly individualized. Together we can help you become clearer about what is most important to you and your family. We can manage the impact of divorce on your children and we can create a thoughtful plan to help you make it through successfully and get to that new place in life. 

You must give up the life you had planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

– Joseph Campbell

Leah Koenig, MA, LMHC

Teens and Parent Coaching
Leah Koenig worked with Marlon to launch Collaborative Couples & Family Counseling, LLC in 2008, now Bellevue Family Counseling, LLC. Since then Leah has been focusing her time on working with children and teens to help them better manage many of the challenges they face in their developmental years. Leah also works with parents to help them better manage the challenges that raising happy and healthy children can bring. As a parent coach, she helps them visualize their dream and work together to build a family life they value.
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