The role of a Facilitator (or Coach) in Collaborative Practice is to provide expert assistance
A River (of Emotion) Runs Through It
by a neutral mental health professional for managing the often highly charged emotions that typically accompany divorce or other contentious conflicts. Attorneys are often turned to by clients for “venting” but attorneys aren’t trained for helping with a clients emotional stress and judges too are not concerned about your emotions- under the law they are “irrelevant”. Collaborative Practice acknowledges the “emotional divorce” as well as the “legal divorce” or the “financial divorce” and efficiently attends to those needs by adding a collaboratively trained mental health professional to the “team” with the lawyers (and financial professional and/or child specialist).
You can watch a 20 minute video that shows one couples’ journey through a collaborative divorce using mental health professionals to “coach” them in association with their collaborative lawyers… all part of a collaborative team approach that efficiently and cost-effectively gets you ALL the help you need to survive one of the hardest transitions a person (or child) can have in life.