Being welcomed, heard, and valued are just some of the many things you and your teen can expect when working with our clinicians at Sparrow Counseling, but this is where we start. So, are you ready to start? Teen, are you tired of feeling stuck? Are you ready to start pursuing the change that you have been longing for but not yet attained? Are you willing to invest in yourself through this journey? Parents, are you willing to invest in this journey with your teen? Investing your time, energy, resources, and support to their health and attainment of their goals?

The 5 W’s of Telling Your Children About Your Divorce

At Sparrow Counseling, located in Birmingham, AL, we often get questions from parents who have made the decision to move forward with divorce regarding telling their children. We want to make that easier by providing the 5 W's of telling your children about your divorce.

Helping Children deal with the grief from the divorce

Sara Hadgraft, the Executive Director from Sparrow Counseling, did a podcast with Seth Nelson on “How to split the Toaster”. She’s a licensed marriage and family therapist and a licensed professional counselor who guides families through the pain and disappointment of divorce. It’s a difficult process, but it’s important to learn how to talk to your kids so they don’t feel that it’s there fault that you’re getting divorced.

10 Tips for Coparents from a Coparenting Counselor

Coparenting Counseling will not heal the pain and hurt YOU FEEL from your divorce. You will need to do your own recovery and therapy for that to happen (and I hope that you do!), but Coparenting Counseling can be helpful in building a new relationship with your coparent. For kids of divorce, they have enough pain to deal with just getting over their family ending. Adding constant fighting to that pain is just not fair. For their sake, I urge you to get help if you need it, so your kids learn that divorce is NOT the final word to their family, as they knew it. There is hope for a new future and while their parents are no longer married they can get along, so everyone can move forward and have a better future.

Coparenting: How to handle drop off/pick ups and schedules

Coparenting through your first transfers of your children with your coparent can be one of the most painful times of life. You didn't expect this or necessarily want it, but there goes your child in their car and now you sit alone. Sometimes you can still hear your child crying or laughing.... And you just sit in your car or at your home and weep. I want to remind you it will not always be like this. You will find hope again. Divorce is not the final answer to your family. Hope can be found again! As a Coparenting Counselor, one of the most difficult and frustrating issues for coparents is often transitions (drop offs/pick ups) and schedule making and changes.

Tools for Navigating Transitions in Your Family and Your Life

A blog for parents, families, and individuals going through life transitions