Dr. Sonja Benson is not only a psychologist with many years of experience working with divorcing couples, but she is also a trained divorce mediator. Although she does not choose to mediate full divorces, she uses her experience and training in both realms to help parents going through a divorce come to an agreement on parenting plans.
Parents may choose to talk through initial parenting plans they then bring to other divorce professionals such as attorneys. Other parents choose to work through the parenting time agreement completely and then bring that agreement to a mediator specializing in divorce finance or to a set of collaborative lawyers to be worked into the final divorce agreement.