Are you Getting Divorced?
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Services for Families
- Parent Coordinator
- Interdisciplinary Collaborative Law team Member
Services for Lawyers
- Generation of Parenting Plans
- Consulting in complex case environment
Training for Mental Health Professionals
- Parent Coordinator Training
- Interdisciplinary Collaborative Law Training
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You could just hire an attorney to do everything…..and fight it out in court…or you could let Mental Health Professionals of Houston assemble a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Family Law team for you that will guide you and your family through this difficult process.
Your relationship that is ending has four components: emotional, relational, financial, and legal. The financial and legal components of a divorce are often sabotaged by the inability of one or more parties to manage the emotional and relational components well.
Our staff at Mental Health Professionals of Houston can guide you through these emotional and relationship struggles. We can also help you find legal and financial professionals to help you work through your divorce in a collaborative manner that will not destroy you or your relationship with your children.
The needs of families going through separation and divorce are complex and multidimensional and our trained professionals work collaboratively to meet the needs of your family. When there are children, the parents will have an ongoing relationship, and restructuring the four components can be stressful and challenging.
Are you already divorced but need help with co-parenting?
You can go back to court……again and again, or you can let one of our Parent Coordinators help you create a Parent Plan that works.
Conflicts arise between parents post divorce due to many factors. You don’t have to go back to court and experience the financial and emotional cost of that experience. Parents often have poor communication and conflict resolution skills and need someone neutral to help them identify and resolve issues.
Parent Coordinators are by law designated as neutral parties and have special training to assist you in your parenting role. They are trained to assist you to create a parenting plan if you don’t have one. They can also help you adjust or implement your existing parenting plan. Divorce decrees can’t cover all the possibilities that can arise in a family as the children grow and develop.
In Texas, parents have to adopt a legal parenting plan as part of the divorce decree. However, sometimes things are left out or not covered as well as they should have been. As your children grow, their needs change and adjustments need to be made in the way you parent them. By having some of these things thought out and written down, you can avoid some of the conflicts that are likely to come up at various stages in your child’s life. Even if your divorce didn’t require it, parents can adopt an informal written plan that is an agreement you and the other parent make about how to handle raising your kids. A Parent Coordinator can help you make an agreement regarding how you will resolve future conflicts to avoid going to court.
As an attorney, are you seeking help dealing with high conflict couples?
You can engage a trained Mental Health Professional as a consultant to help you and your clients create a workable parenting plan or simply to help you manage the complex relationships involved in high conflict situations.
In our experience, each divorce case has its own unique elements and etiologies. There are always surprises. You specialize in the legal components. We specialize in the emotional and relational components. Let us reduce your stress. We can provide consultation with litigated and collaborative law cases. Our team of professionals offer expertise as family systems analysts, child specialists, parent coordinators, collaborative law team members and other related skills as needed.
Custody cases are becoming more and more challenging. The issues surrounding custody are more complicated and more often disputed. Attorneys are in need of more creative approaches to reaching timely and reasonable settlements as people accumulate more wealth and assets.
Our consultants can provide invaluable assistance to your firm by offering our expertise and knowledge in areas such as child development, family dynamics, domestic abuse, parenting, parental alienation syndrome and more. Our expertise combined with an attorney’s skill, makes it possible to develop an effective strategy even in the most challenging cases. With this type of assistance, an attorney will have a decided edge when it comes to making convincing and credible arguments to the opposing counsel or before the court.
Are you a Mental Health Professional who would like to get involved in this new area of work?
You can attend one of our Parent Coordinator Training Workshops or we can help you attain training in Interdisciplinary Collaborative Law.
Mental Health Professionals of Houston provides the 24 hours of parent coordination training (including 8 hours of family violence training) required by House Bill 252 enacted by the Texas State Legislature, September 1, 2005, to qualify you to serve as a court appointed Parent Coordinator. Our next workshop is scheduled for March 22-24, 2007. Go to our Training Page for more information or just download our registration form (pdf).
The Collaborative Law Institute of Texas offers a two day course which provides the basic training needed to function as an MHP in an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Family Law team. We would be happy to answer questions about the training or about getting established as an MHP in the field.
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