Jun 25, 2019
Concerned about how a divorce will affect your children? Divorce
with children can feel scary. Listen in as a team of experts
provide support and information to help you tell your children
about the separation or divorce, maintain healthy relationships
with both parents, how to parent separately with your spouse, and
manage your own emotions when it comes to your kids.
Key Points:
- Learn the critical messages that need to be part of the
conversation.
- Understand how children commonly respond, and how you can provide
loving support at each stage.
- Prepare to negotiate your parenting agreement and establish a
strong parenting relationship through divorce and beyond.
- Learn how to manage the sadness, guilt and/or anxiety of seeing
your child in distress. Strike a balance between your child's needs
and your own.
Sponsored by Main Line Family Law Center
For more information, please visit: Main Line Family Law Center at
https://myhealthydivorce.com
Episode Host, Adina Laver, Founder, Courage to Be Curious,
(formerly Divorce Essentials)
Find Adina Laver at: https://couragetobecurious.com
Guest: Sandi Sherr, M.Ed and Stephanie Newberg
About Sandi: Sandi Sherr, M.Ed, is a parenting mediator for Main
Line Family Law Center. For over 25 years, Sandi has been dedicated
to building strong, healthy families.
Sandi sees the positive first; she recognizes strengths and uses
them to bolster confidence and achieve outcome objectives. Always
focused on the best interests of children, Sandi brings her energy
for parenting—with all its emotional, educational, and social
challenges—to benefit yours.
Her M.Ed. in special education and psycholinguistics has taken her
to practically every kind of setting devoted to working with
children and their families or caregivers. Her range of
psycho-educational experience includes adult behavior therapy;
adoption counseling; parenting education; foster care; child
development; adolescent special needs; early childhood
intervention; and parenting her own three children. To the latter
end, she is a veteran volunteer and office holder in her community
school district.
For more information or advice on creating a healthy parenting
plan, contact Sandi at ssherr@mlfamilylawcenter.com.
About Stephanie: Stephanie Newberg is a licensed psychotherapist
and works with individuals, couples and families. She has been in
practice for 15 years specializing in family and couples
counseling, co-parenting counseling, implications of divorce on
families and grief and loss issues. Stephanie has led numerous
workshops and presentations and has published articles on
relationship and communication skills, co-parenting counseling,
coping with family stressors and children's mental health issues.
She lives and practices in Bryn Mawr, PA.
To request an appointment, contact Stephanie at
stephanie@stephanienewberg.com or visit her at
stephanienewberg.com.