Setting Boundaries with Separated Parents from Day One

Implement a single, robust policy that protects your practice, reduces professional burnout and keeps you out of Co-Parent Triangulation When Working with Separated Families

You work with children because you’re committed to helping them build resilience and strength. You did not sign up to be an unpaid paralegal, an email punching bag, or the referee in a high-conflict divorce.

Children from separated families are at higher risk of adverse outcomes, so it’s no surprise their parents seek out your expert guidance. But practices across the country are turning these families away, caught in fear about being inadvertently drawn into the courtroom, or lacking clarity in what boundaries they can hold and how to hold them with parents who are living in threat mode and filled with angst about what is happening for their kid. 

The reality is, your colleagues are exhausted—and you might be too. This looks like: 

• Doing free…