Susan Pease Gadoua is a licensed therapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in helping clients navigate the challenges of marriage, divorce and co-parenting.
Susan is the author of the San Francisco Chronicle best-seller, Contemplating Divorce, and The Parenting Marriage Workbook. She co-authored, The New I Do. Susan has appeared in numerous media outlets as a marriage/divorce expert and has trained therapists world-wide on the Parenting Marriage model.
She lives in California with her husband, dogs and goats.
Rescheduled: Parenting Marriage: An Alternative to Divorce for Sexless Couples with Kids
Do you have clients (individuals or couples) facing the dilemma of whether to end their marriage because of a ruptured romantic connection, but who want to stay because of the kids?
There is now a viable third option you can explore with these folks. Instead of clients having to choose between staying unhappily or disrupting everything by leaving, they can now opt to stay and go. Couples have done this by default for many generations; however, now there is a name and a formal framework for this concept that you can use with your clients to make this happen. Participants will come away with...Read more a powerful tool to help individuals and couples feel better about remaining in their marriage to co-parent their kids, while also feeling less hopeless or ashamed.
Detailed Parenting Marriage Downloadable Workbook and Handouts included.
Recording:
This class will be recorded and made available within 2 hours after the live lecture. Recordings are available for 90 days after the class. Less...
Learning Objectives
- identify 5 keys for making a Parenting Marriage work.
- contrast 5 differences between a Parenting Marriage and Traditional Marriage.
- discuss 10 reasons why couples are choosing to stay together for the kids rather than divorce.
- demonstrate how to introduce clients who are contemplating divorce to the option of maintaining a platonic relationship instead of getting a divorce.
- list 3 kinds of couples for whom a Parenting Marriage is not recommended.
Target Audience
All mental health professionals welcome.
Learning Levels
- Intermediate, all levels welcome
Friday, October 17, 2025
Live Interactive Webinar
12:00 PM EDT - 03:00 PM EDT
EARN 3 CE Credit Hours
About the speaker
Susan Pease Gadoua, LCSW
Psychotherapist & Best-selling Author
Agenda
9 am- 9:10 am- Intro, overviews, housekeeping
9:10 am- 9:20 am- Definitions of a Parenting Marriage (PM)
9:20 am - 9:25 am- Old Choices/New Choices
9:25 am- 9:35 am- How and Why a PM Came to Be
9:35 am- 9:40 am- Comparison of TM and PM
9:40 am- 9:50 am- Who Chooses a PM?
9:50 am - 9:55 am- Purpose of PM for Parents
9:55 am- 10 am- Purpose of PM for Kids
10 am- 10:15 am- 5 Keys for Making a PM Work
10:15 am -10:20 am- Professionals Needed
10:20 am- 10:40 am- Considerations for Kids
10:40 am -10:55 am- Break
10:55 am- 11:05 am - Research/Survey
11:05 am- 11:25 am - Results Case Examples and Outcomes
11:25 am - 11:45 am Who a PM is Not Right for and Why
11:45 am- 12:30 pm- How to Introduce a PM to Clients
12:30 pm- 12:45 pm- Q & A
CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours including
3 Clinical Hour
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Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an
approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health
counselors. #MHC-0284.
New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners
EngagedMinds Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0117.
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