Become a Certified Parent Team Expert
Grow your skills.
Expand your practice.
Strengthen more families.
Divorce Coaches
Get comfortable with complexity.
Our Parent Team Expert Certification will equip you with the skills, tools, and resources you need to provide meaningful, effective help to two-home families.
You can create generational change.
Ground your approach in the most current trauma- and evidence-informed research.
Create personalized parenting plans that honor every family's unique strengths and challenges.
Guide parents toward a mindful divorce option that best suits their family's needs.
Empower co-parents to show up as their best selves, and restore dignity to the divorce process.
Feel confident you're helping to protect kids from chronic parental conflict and reducing the negative effects of divorce.
Help preserve families’ financial resources, reducing a common point of contention in many co-parent relationships.
Are you a fit?
Mental Health
Professionals
Attorneys &
Mediators
Divorce
Coaches
Financial
Professionals
Meet your Guest Facilitators.
You'll be engaging with experts—lawyers, authors, therapists, mediators, and more.
Katherine Woodward ThomasLMFT, NYT Best Selling Author
- Award winning licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, creator of two Mindvalley Quests and has trained thousands of people as certified relationship coaches of her highly transformative methods. She is also the creator of the acclaimed True You process and lead teacher of the True You Membership Program.
- Author of Calling in “The One”: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life
- Author of Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After
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Julie MenannoLMFT, LCPC, National Bestselling Author
- She earned her Master’s degree in Psychology from Phillips Graduate Institute in Los Angeles, CA. She currently has a clinical therapy practice treating couples in Bozeman, Montana, as well as a relationship coaching practice with a staff of coaches who serve clients all over the globe. Julie is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and specializes in working with attachment issues within relationships.
- Author of Secure Love: Create a Relationship that Lasts a Lifetime.
Karen BonnellMS
- A divorce / co-parent coach, mediator and author of influential books related to separation, divorce, and child-centered parenting planning. Karen has dedicated her work to resolving conflicts thoughtfully--one person, one parenting pair, or one family at a time. Karen is committed to assisting parents navigate family transitions as skillfully as possible, which includes adding new adults - stepparents to a two-home family
- Author of The Stepfamily Handbook: From Dating to Getting Serious to Forming a "Blended Family"
Art HinshawClinical Professor of Law
- Art Hinshaw is the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, the John J. Bouma Fellow in Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Faculty Director of the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center, and a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Dean Hinshaw’s research bridges dispute resolution theory and practice, resulting in 3 books as well as 25 articles and book chapters. He has won 3 prestigious awards from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
Linda SolomonLPC, LCDC, LMFT
- She was in private practice in Dallas, Texas for 30 years. Her work with individuals, couples and families focused on relationship issues and addictive behaviors. She was actively involved in the collaborative team approach, working as a Neutral Mental Health Professional and was instrumental in the development of the role. She is also trained as a Mediator and aParenting Coordinator.
Jasmine VanAntwerpLCPC
- Over 16 years of working with children, parents, families and couples. Her expertise is in trauma, attachment, blended families, divorce, grief and loss. She is a Certified Conscious Uncoupling Coach, Play Therapist, and expert in the Child Specialist role within Collaborative Divorce and mediation processes.
Anne R. LucasMA, LMHC
- She is a mediator, coach, teacher/trainer in Kirkland, Washington. In her Collaborative and mediation practice, Anne was a co-founder of the Seattle Collaborative Law Training Group, has been a frequent presenter at the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals forums as well as speaking to and providing trainings for practice groups across the country and in Canada. In partnership with Nancy Cameron, Anne developed and co-taught the IACP Leadership Academy in 2013.
Meet your Faculty.
With more than 30 years of combined experience in counseling, financial planning, and mediation, we’ve seen how divorce can take its toll on families. We're convinced it doesn't have to be that way.
Jen Schimbeno CDFA®
- Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®)
- Financial Planner (Series 65)
- Trained Mediator
- Certified Conscious Uncoupling Coach
- Accredited Practitioner in Collaborative Processes (Financial Neutral)
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Brandyn Roark Caires M.S., LCPC
- Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor for Children and Families
- Trained Mediator
- Certified Conscious Uncoupling Coach
- Accredited Practitioner in Collaborative Processes (Mental Health Neutral)
Kristine ReichEsq., MSW
- Family Law Attorney
- Certified Mediator
- Social Worker
- Faculty Associate, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
- Accredited Practitioner in Collaborative Processes (Lawyer and Mental Health Neutral)
This isn't a training. It's a movement.
Modernizing Divorce
Understand divorce and trauma, and learn alternative divorce options so you can tailor your support to accommodate unique family needs.
Empowering Financial Clarity
Gain critical insights into divorce-related financial dynamics in divorce (including financial abuse), and discover simple settlement options to match your clients' goals.
Helping Parents Get on the Same Team
Access the Parent Team online course and learn how to leverage it with individual clients and in tandem and group settings.
Mediating with Two-Home Families
Hone your communication skills so you can successfully guide parents toward conflict resolution. You'll receive your 40-hour trained mediator certificate.
Crafting Effective Parenting Plans
Skip confusing, boilerplate legal templates, and learn to craft personalized agreements families can understand and will actually use.
Navigating Tough Moments
Know how to manage your own emotional responses when working with difficult personalities and when co-parents seem to be stuck.
Building on Your Certification
Discover how to use your Parent Team Expert Certification to expand your practice, including marketing essentials, pricing your services, and more.
Bonus: Collaborative Divorce Basics
Learn how collaborative divorce positively influences two-home families, and understand a basic approach you can use with your clients.
February - May 2025
Tuesdays and Thursdays
11 am - 1 pm MT
Recorded Zoom Calls
Join live or later.
$5,000
Payment plan available.
With the right tools and support, two-home families thrive.
- Bring more meaning to your work.
- Elevate your credentials and expertise.
- Integrate being a Collaborative Divorce Neutral into your practice (for qualified participants).
- Create additional revenue streams.
Common Questions
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