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This article is from Carol Mapp, LCSW, an Arlington-based therapist with Integrated Healthworks.
The life-altering changes that occur in relationships during a divorce can produce a variety of feelings. One common feeling that individuals who are divorcing experience is loneliness. There may be times during the transition of divorce in which individuals may feel lonely, even [...]
The American Bar Association has just announced that Harry Tindall, a partner with Houston-based family law firm Tindall & England and Vice President of the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas’ Board of Trustees, will be receiving the organization’s Problem Solver Award at the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution Awards Luncheon in Washington, D.C. [...]
The awareness of collaborative law continues to grow throughout Texas — and one of the reasons for that is the annual conference that the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas coordinates with the State Bar of Texas. This year, the conference comes to Austin on Feb. 1-3, with a focus on new developments in collaborative law [...]
A few weeks ago, Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Board Member Syd Sharples shared some helpful insights about divorce and the holidays in a two-part blog article, which can be found here and here.
Now, Sharples is sharing her insights about how divorcing parents can help their kids — and themselves — through the holidays [...]
This article is from Norma Levine Trusch, a Houston-based lawyer and Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Board Member.
I recently attended the annual Networking and Educational Forum of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, which was held in San Francisco, one of my favorite cities. As always, the workshops were exciting and informative and well worth [...]
One of our favorite blogs on collaborative law comes for one of our colleagues, who was instrumental in the launch of the CLI-TX blog back in the day. Dick Price, who writes the Texas Collaborative Law Blog, recently wrote this thought-provoking piece on the importance of privacy in the divorce process for a number of [...]
This article is from Carol Mapp, LCSW, an Arlington-based therapist with Integrated Healthworks.
Communication is central to any relationship and co-parenting communication and relationships are no different,. Keep guidelines in mind at your next impasse; they might help you avoid an unproductive argument.
1. Say it in a way that the other person can “hear”: [...]
This article comes from Carol Mapp, LCSW, an Arlington-based therapist with Integrated Healthworks.
In area megastores, the aisles have been filling steadily with flashy, multi-zippered superhero backpacks, packages of hermetically-sealed notebook paper, and television character-inspired lunch boxes since the July 4th holiday. Although blissfully unaware children can still be found in swimming pools, at day [...]