Building a Child-Centered, Co-Parenting Connection
by Jody Sargent, LCSW Divorce GRIEF – A disturbance of trusted family relationships that changes interpersonal connections and the disruption of safe attachments can catapult a family into deep sorrow and grief. Extreme emotional and physical distress can come in waves – and, without warning. Unfortunately, the effects of conflict and divorce can leave each […]
How to Limit the Negative Effects of Divorce and Family Conflict on Your Child.
by Jody Sargent LCSW, MSW, LVRC, CRC Effects of Divorce and Family Conflict on Children Divorce and other family conflicts can have devasting, lifelong effects on the children that experience them. Divorce is an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE). ACEs can create trauma. Divorce trauma can have lasting effects on a child’s developing brain, but they […]
The Benefits of Choosing a Co-parenting Therapist During a Divorce Over an Attorney
Rarely do I have people in my office that are in the midst of divorce that are doing so without serious, take you to court, conflict. Divorce is really hard and sadly there is not a divorce manual helping people get through it. So people turn to what they know or what they see on […]