A collaborative law coach is a licensed mental health professional who assists with communication, emotional processing, conflict management skills, child development, relational dynamics, and co-parenting techniques. The Coach’s role on the collaborative team is to help participants prioritize their concerns, process their feelings and differences in healthy ways, stay focused on their goals by neutralizing or minimizing destructive emotions, communicate effectively with each other, with their lawyers, and with their children, and provide them with tools for positive co-parenting in their post-separation lives.  The Coach assists the parties to move through this difficult life change with dignity, respect, mutual understanding, concern for their children’s welfare, and hope for their own futures.  More information can be found at the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) website.