Focused help when conflict takes over.

Including transitional services for families going through change

Parenting coordination helps parents communicate better, follow a workable parenting plan, and settle everyday disputes without going back to court. Jeannemarie works with both parents, keeps the focus on the children, and keeps counsel informed.

It also covers the changes that come later. Schedules that worked for a five-year-old rarely work for a fifteen-year-old, and life brings moves, new jobs, new partners, and children with changing needs. Jeannemarie helps families adjust as those changes arrive.

• Day-to-day decisions and disputes between parents
• Communication coaching so exchanges stay child-focused
• Structured help reaching agreement on parenting and custody issues
• Adjusting parenting schedules as children grow and needs change
• Pre- and post-divorce transitions, including changes to existing agreements
• Written updates and reports to counsel and the court

Separated and divorced parents in ongoing conflict, whether by court appointment or by agreement between the parties.

A first conversation to understand the situation, a clear explanation of her role and fees, and then regular sessions with a defined purpose. Many families come back to her voluntarily when a new issue arises.

"Jeannemarie served as the parenting coordinator on my case. She took the time to thoroughly understand the details and the specific needs of my son."

Parent

In-home insight for therapeutic and court support

Real-world observation of how a family interacts at home, with insight into parenting, communication, and relationships, including each parent's interaction and parenting style with the children.

These assessments support therapeutic goals or court requirements. When needed, Jeannemarie provides formal reports and feedback that give the court a strong understanding of the family dynamics and the realistic paths forward, supporting custody decisions, parenting plans, and reunification efforts.

• Observation of the family in their natural environment, including home visits
• Each parent's interaction and parenting style with the children
• Interviews with parents and, where appropriate, children
• Collateral contact with therapists, schools, and other providers
• Court-ready written reports and feedback
• Testimony when required

Families where the court, an attorney, or an Attorney for Children needs an independent picture of how the family actually functions.

Scope, timeline, and fee are set in writing before the work begins, including who will receive the report. The purpose of the evaluation, therapeutic or court-related, is agreed at the start.

When a family is escalating, more litigation rarely helps. This is short-term, focused intervention for families whose conflict is getting worse.

Jeannemarie identifies what is driving the conflict, steadies the situation, and presents recommendations and guidance so the family and the professional team have a clear path forward.

• Rapid assessment of what is really driving the conflict
• Work with each parent on the patterns keeping it going
• Steps to reduce the children's exposure to the conflict
• Written recommendations and guidance for the family and the professional team
• Coordination with counsel and other professionals involved

Families in crisis, cases headed for another motion, and matters where the professional team needs to understand what is really happening.

A defined, time-limited engagement with a clear goal, not open-ended therapy.

"I am a psychotherapist who collaborated with Jeannemarie on a highly sensitive, challenging case. She proved most insightful in terms of not only her assessment but her intervention, and impressed me as a consummate professional."

Psychotherapist

Getting a client in a positive place to engage with the court system

Family litigation is not only a legal experience. For many people it is an emotionally destabilizing life event, and emotions can take over in ways that hurt how they are perceived.

Jeannemarie helps clients understand how their emotional presentation, communication, and behavior may be received in a legal setting, so they do not undermine themselves when it matters most. She also explains the general stages and expectations of custody and divorce proceedings in clear, non-legal terms, leaving all legal advice to the attorney.

• Preparation for emotionally difficult meetings, conferences, evaluations, mediation, and court appearances
• Understanding how behavior and communication may affect the case and relationships
• Communication skills and conflict-management strategies
• Maintaining appropriate boundaries with a co-parent
• Realistic expectations about the litigation process

Clients whose emotions are getting in the way of how they come across, and attorneys who need a client to arrive prepared.

Short, focused sessions with a practical goal. Jeannemarie does not give legal advice, predict outcomes, develop legal strategy, or coach anyone to conceal or distort information.

Custody and divorce proceedings bring anxiety, anger, fear, grief, and frustration. Those feelings are normal. Left unmanaged, they can drive decisions that make the case worse and the family more fragile.

Jeannemarie helps clients manage those emotions and work through the loss of a partnership and a changing family, for themselves and for their children.

• Emotional support and therapeutic intervention related to divorce and custody litigation
• Managing anxiety, anger, fear, frustration, and grief
• Working through the emotional stages of a changing family
• Staying steady through the long stretches of a case
• Keeping the children's experience at the center

Parents going through custody or divorce proceedings who need support with the emotional side of the process.

Focused sessions with a clear purpose. This is support through a difficult period, not a long-term therapy relationship.