Become a Certified Parent Team Expert

Grow your skills.
Expand your practice.
Strengthen more families.

Next virtual cohort begins February 2025.
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Therapists and Psychologists
Mediators & Lawyers
Social Workers
Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFA™️)
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Get comfortable with complexity.

More and more two-home families are turning to mental health, legal, and financial professionals for support. But because most schooling glosses over divorce and co-parenting, it can be tough to offer confident guidance.

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.

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    Ground your approach in the most current trauma- and evidence-informed research.

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    Create personalized parenting plans that honor every family's unique strengths and challenges.

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    Guide parents toward a mindful divorce option that best suits their family's needs.

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    Empower co-parents to show up as their best selves, and restore dignity to the divorce process.

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    Feel confident you're helping to protect kids from chronic parental conflict and reducing the negative effects of divorce.

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    Help preserve families’ financial resources, reducing a common point of contention in many co-parent relationships.

Are you a fit?

Both novice and experienced professionals are welcome.

Mental Health
Professionals

Expand your practice and help more parents reduce the negative impact of divorce.

Attorneys &
Mediators

Use expanded Alternative Dispute Resolution tools to help clients move past chronic conflict.

Divorce
Coaches

Do even more good with families by elevating your skills and expertise.

Financial
Professionals

Broaden your current role and leverage your skillset through more meaningful work.

Meet your facilitators.

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.

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Jen Schimbeno
CDFA®

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    Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®)
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    Financial Planner (Series 65)
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    Trained Mediator
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    Certified Conscious Uncoupling Coach
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    Accredited Practitioner in Collaborative Processes (Financial Neutral)
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Brandyn Roark Caires
M.S., LCPC

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    Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor for Children and Families
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    Trained Mediator
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    Certified Conscious Uncoupling Coach
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    Accredited Practitioner in Collaborative Processes (Mental Health Neutral)

Kristine Reich
Esq., MSW

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    Family Law Attorney
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    Certified Mediator
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    Social Worker
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    Accredited Practitioner in Collaborative Processes (Lawyer and Mental Health Neutral)

Additional Facilitators

  • You'll be engaging with additional experts—lawyers, authors, therapists, mediators, and more. The complete list of facilitators will be included in your training manual.
Curriculum Highlights

This isn't a training. It's a movement.

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Modernizing Divorce

Understand divorce and trauma, and learn alternative divorce options so you can tailor your support to accommodate unique family needs.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Crafting Effective Parenting Plans

Skip confusing, boilerplate legal templates, and learn to craft personalized agreements families can understand and will actually use.

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Navigating Tough Moments

Know how to manage your own emotional responses when working with difficult personalities and when co-parents seem to be stuck.

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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.

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Bonus: Collaborative Divorce Basics

Learn how collaborative divorce positively influences two-home families, and understand a basic approach you can use with your clients.

Certification Commitments
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February - May 2025

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Tuesdays and Thursdays
11 am - 1 pm MT

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Recorded Zoom Calls
Join live or later.

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$5,000
Payment plan available.

With the right tools and support, two-home families thrive.

There's no question that divorce can have negative outcomes, especially for kids. But when the adults around them get on the same team that risk is significantly reduced. As a Certified Parent Team Expert, that's what you'll make possible.
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    Bring more meaning to your work.
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    Elevate your credentials and expertise.
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    Integrate being a Collaborative Divorce Neutral into your practice (for qualified participants).
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    Create additional revenue streams.

Common Questions

Become a Parent Team Expert

Still have questions? 

Tell us a bit about who you are, what questions you have, and we’ll be in touch.