Successful Families offers training, internships and mentoring to individuals and groups in those services which we, as specialists and experts in the field, provide for high conflict separating and divorcing families.

Training opportunities include the following services:

• Mediation (parenting plans, child protection)
• Parenting plan (custody/access) assessment
• Mediation/arbitration
• Parenting coordination
• Counselling (family, couple, reintegration, individual, child)
• Coaching

Some options are:

• Observing in the room from start to finish, augmented by a debriefing and training with the team member before and after each interview.
• Attending a monthly group consultation meeting with a team member and other interns.
• Receiving individual peer consultation on an as-needed basis or scheduled regularly.

Supplementing the above, trainees will have an opportunity to attend our regular team meetings and:

• Participate in case presentations, learning how to present cases effectively.
• Discuss ethical dilemmas and complex clinical issues.
• Obtain education about relevant social science literature and pertinent legislation and case law.