For Separation
Separation is a huge decision, after all you loved this person once, and now it’s all gone wrong, fallen apart.
It’s the end of a dream, the end of a partnership, possibly for you it means that you are losing the person that you have thought of as your best friend for many years.
There are so many things to think about, the formalities, the finances, the children.
But there’s also YOU. For you to be able to deal with all the other stuff, you need to take care of YOU, and decide what you want for your future and the steps that you need to take to achieve it.
If you are in tune with and taking care of yourself, the other things will seem easier to work through. Taking important decisions won’t seem quite so difficult if you have had the opportunity to discuss the options with an empathic, independent professional who’s not emotionally involved.
Separation Counselling with Lesley enables you
to Become ……
The new you!
- Prepared for Separation
- Able to manage your emotions
- Able to recognise and understand your feelings
- Able to focus on your and the family’s future
- Considerate of your own and ex-partner’s needs
- Able to communicate in a logical constructive way
- Able to negotiate and compromise
- Committed to finding the right solution
- Able to consider all the options
- Able to move forward positively
- Able to Become the New You!
Great co-parents
Able to talk calmly and logically about:
- How you will divide time for your child/ren between both of your homes
- How you will share holiday times, school holidays, special occasions
- Who will look after your child/ren if neither of you can
- How will time be shared with extended family, eg grandparents/aunts/uncles, and how will communication with those people work
- Education, future plans, parents evenings, school trips
- Health, how will decisions be made, what to do in an emergency, dentist and GP appointments, vaccinations
- How you will communicate with each other about your child/ren: text, email, phone (and how often)
- How you will communicate with your child/ren when they are with the other parent (method and timing)
- How will your child/ren’s living and extra expenses be covered
- Able to share information
- Able to share important moments in your child/ren’s life
- Able to work as a team to give the best to your child/ren
- Able to be flexible, accessible and fair
- Able to speak positively about each other to your child/ren
- Able to share in giving your child/ren a safe, secure, loving environment to grow up in
Ways to work with Lesley for a happy future….
Ways to work with Lesley…
The traditional
Regular ninety minute sessions
The intensive
If regular commitments are difficult, Lesley offers concentrated half or full day sessions to kick start your progress towards making the changes that you want to make. This can then be followed up with further intensive half or full day sessions every 4 – 6 weeks, or more frequent 90 minute sessions, as appropriate to your needs.