Counselling Couples & Individuals in Guildford, Surrey & Online to reach your potential
Maddy Coates Counselling
Being guided through the process of separating
I work with couples who want to achieve the best separation possible with the focus on containing conflict and relationship transformation; nurturing their new ongoing relationship that emerges and will be experienced by their children, families and friends.
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Phase one: you have come to the decision to separate and the first phase is to share your mutual understanding of what makes this the right choice for you.
Phase two: discuss hopes for the planning phase of separating which acknowledges the challenges of physical, social and financial separation.
Phase three: where appropriate discuss co-parenting, what that might look like and consider any concerns about the factors that contributed to separation showing up in co-parenting.
Phase four: saying goodbye is an important part of separation and hopefully being able to acknowledge what the relationship has given.
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