Divorce Related Services

Introduction

Columbine Counseling Center provides 5 divorce related services: Parental Responsibility Evaluation, Child and Family Investigator, Parenting Coordinator, Parenting Plan Consulting and Therapeutic Parenting Time.

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Parental Responsibility Evaluation

This service provides for a comprehensive evaluation to assist parents and the court system in resolving parental responsibilities (parenting time disputes). The goal of this service is to provide a plan to maximize each child’s development and to improve parent-child relationships whenever possible.

Child and Family Investigator

A Child and Family Investigator (CFI) is a court appointed professional who evaluates the family and provides information and recommendations to the court. In that role, the CFI conducts a timely and efficient investigation of the family using interviews, observation of interactions, and other sources of data needed to accomplish the task. A brief report is then filed with the court. The primary goal is to arrive at a set of parenting time and parental decision-making recommendations, which are practical for the family and allow for the continued healthy development of the children.

Parenting Coordinator

A parenting coordinator (PC) assists parents or guardians in managing, containing and reducing their conflict in a manner that primarily benefits children. The PC assists them in improving communications related to parenting time and decision-making issues. The PC is trained and experienced in working with divorcing and divorced parents.

Parenting Plan Consultant

A parenting plan consultant assists both parents in building a parenting plan which is beneficial to their children. Each parenting plan defines parenting time between parent and child, specifications for parental decision-making, and a mechanism for resolving disputes in the future.

Therapeutic Parenting Time (TPT)

Therapeutic parenting time (TPT) is a proactive process which seeks to make each parent-child interaction an opportunity to establish or re-establish a relationship, to resolve conflict, and build or rebuild a relationship. A family history is constructed by obtaining data from a variety of sources such as family members, attorneys, or previous therapists. Children are seen individually to evaluate their sensitivities to the current family situation and assess their ability to benefit from TPT.