Moving Beyond One-to-One: My Journey to Creating a Group Program for Co-Parents
You are not alone. So many separated parents struggle with the same challenges, but they don’t get to hear each other’s stories. This realisation pushed me to create a group program that breaks down those barriers of isolation.
I recently shared this story on The Private Practice Academy Podcast with Kerstin Anderson-Ridge, where we unpacked the creation of Co-Parenting Companion. In the episode titled Moving Beyond 1:1 Therapy and Developing a Group Program with Tiffany Rochester, we explore how my commitment to helping separated families drove me to build a community to break down isolation and offer practical, accessible support.
Tune in to hear us discuss:
- The Why Behind Co-Parenting Companion: I explain what led me to pivot from 1:1 therapy to the co-parenting space and how I designed services that make better outcomes accessible and affordable for families.
- My Passion for Systemic Change: I discuss why systemic change is vital for two-home families and how coaching provides a more effective solution than therapy for separated parents developing healthy co-parenting relationships.
- Creating Safe Group Spaces: I highlight how we carefully create and manage safe, supportive spaces within our group programs, allowing parents to feel seen and understood, while empowering them to connect with others facing similar challenges. This sense of community and emotional safety is what helps parents open up, share, and make meaningful progress in their co-parenting journey.
- Building New Skills for Greater Impact: I talk about how moving into group work required me to develop new skills—especially in showing up on social media and podcasts like this one—and how these skills helped expand our impact.
- Why Data Matters: I describe how we continually refine our services, using data to ensure we consistently deliver what parents need most to reach their co-parenting goals efficiently.
- The Power of Group Programs: I explain why joining a group program is more powerful and beneficial than 1:1 sessions, particularly for shared learning and community-building.
- Parents as Experts in Their Own Experience: I discuss one of my core beliefs: that parents are the experts in their lives and their relationships with their children. My role is to bring my expertise in child development and co-parenting dynamics to the table so we can collaborate as a team.
One key point I emphasised during our conversation was:
“[Parents] are the experts in their lived experience, their history with their co-parent, their children. But I am an expert in child development. I am an expert in seeing what works well to support healthy attachment, healthy development.
If you want to have 50/50 shared custody I can tell you a bucketload of data on how that can work and when it doesn’t work well so that people can avoid those pitfalls.
But that doesn’t mean that I have all the answers for them. I’m only useful if they bring their expertise and their knowledge and their experience, and we work together as a team.”
By sharing this episode, I hope parents can better understand how we approach co-parenting and help them decide whether our programs align with their goals and values.
If you're ready to take charge of your co-parenting dynamic and start living life on your terms, you can dip your toes in with our next free webinar, How to Co-Parent With Ease, or our free course, Six Steps to Co-Parenting Success. Or jump in with both feet and join us for the next intake of our life-changing Co-Parenting Intensive Reset. After all, you were never meant to do this alone.
Tiffany Rochester
Co-Parenting Coach
Tiffany is a pioneering force in transforming family life after separation, taking the stress and turmoil out of co-parenting with an ex. Equipped with advanced degrees in Psychology and twenty years of dedicated service, she passionately supports separated parents to bring ease and simplicity into raising children in one family across two homes.
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