Confident Triage & Treatment for Clients from Separated Families
A 2-Day Intensive for Mental Health Professionals: Dyadic Teaching, Skills Modelling, Role-Plays, and In-Depth Case Consultation
A 2-Day Intensive for Mental Health Professionals: Dyadic Teaching, Skills Modelling, Role-Plays, and In-Depth Case Consultation
Not All Separated Families Come with Red Flags. The Key is Confidently Knowing Which Ones Are the Right Fit for Your Practice, Right from the Start—And What to Do with Them Next
If you work with children or adults, you are working with separating and separated families.
You’re already an expert mental health professional. Still, the startling lack of training in separation dynamics in any of our clinical training programs leaves you exposed and vulnerable, and families at risk:
What's the right next step when separation dynamics start to impact 1:1 therapy sessions?
What's the best way to smoothly manage consent issues and parent involvement?
How do you know your therapeutic recommendations won't inadvertently complicate legal matters?
What's the line where it becomes "outside of scope," and where and how do you refer on?
How on earth can you keep the between-session workload within sustainable limits when some clients ask for so much?
What if your interventions might be contraindicated for the level of conflict in the family?
The stakes are high, and thanks to the glaring gap in our training, you’re often left with guesswork and emergency needs for specialised supervision.
The conflict dynamics of separated families can lead to feelings of therapeutic failure, unwanted family court entanglement, and the sleep-stealing fear - “What if I’m making things worse for the child?”
Let’s Trade All That for Clinical Confidence and Protected Practice
Imagine replacing that anxiety with confident clarity from the first contact.
You will leave this intensive two-day workshop with an evidence-based, ACT-integrated system designed to reliably assess family conflict levels—giving you the clinical roadmap for ethical, efficient, and level-appropriate care.
You will gain the confidence to accept appropriate cases for your practice and immediately refer on the highly complex or specialised cases, protecting your practice from entanglement and burnout.
You will know exactly how to structure consent, communication, and boundaries from the moment of intake, preventing the between-session workload and triangulation pressure.
You will apply level-specific, evidence-based ACT/CFT interventions that target the most critical factor—reducing exposure to inter-parental conflict.
This is how you become part of systemic change, supporting families in their time of greatest need—efficiently, effectively, and, importantly, without burning out.
Introducing: The RACPS Roadmap
Developed by award-winning Clinical Psychologist Tiffany Rochester, Confident Triage & Treatment for Children from Separated Families: The RACPS Roadmap is the intensive 2-day workshop that fundamentally reshapes how you approach clients from separated families.
This training fills the critical knowledge gap most practitioners face by integrating the structured, evidence-based assessment of the Rochester Assessment of Conflict in Parental Separation (RACPS) with contextual behavioural science (ACT and CFT) principles.
The RACPS System:
Your New Gold Standard Triage Tool
The RACPS is a proprietary, 13-item, multi-choice tool that provides an objective score to map conflict levels to prescribed, evidence-based recommendations for treatment, referral, and dispute resolution pathways.
You will master this tool through live roleplays and in-depth case exploration.
Workshop Details:
What You Will Master in 2 Days
This is an intensive, live, in-person training covering theoretical foundations, context, and, most critically, interactive, practical applications.
You'll Leave Knowing:
The RACPS Assessment System: Master the use of the RACPS to accurately triage clients at intake and confidently determine their conflict level.
Evidence-Based Intervention Mapping: Instantly know which therapeutic modalities (Individual, Child, Family, Co-Parent Coaching) are suitable or contraindicated based on the client’s RACPS score.
Red Flags and Referral: Identify red flags. Accept the cases that are right for your practice, and have confidence about the best pathway to recommend for those you need to refer on.
Intake and Boundaries Mastery: Learn effective processes for managing consent, parental responsibility, and involvement from the very first inquiry, eliminating complications of dual consent issues and triangulation.
Intervention for Children: Identify the impact of overt and covert conflict on child development and learn tools to foster resilience and coping skills.
Working with the Inflexible Parent: Practice applying ACT and CFT principles to help parents shift from the "fight to be right" to "doing what works".
Therapist Variables: Understand the specific therapeutic behaviours that improve or worsen outcomes to ensure you are always operating as a protective factor.
The RACPS Assessment System: Master the use of the RACPS to accurately triage clients at intake and confidently determine their conflict level.
Evidence-Based Intervention Mapping: Instantly know which therapeutic modalities (Individual, Child, Family, Co-Parent Coaching) are suitable or contraindicated based on the client’s RACPS score.
Red Flags and Referral: Identify red flags. Accept the cases that are right for your practice, and have confidence about the best pathway to recommend for those you need to refer on.
Intake and Boundaries Mastery: Learn effective processes for managing consent, parental responsibility, and involvement from the very first inquiry, eliminating complications of dual consent issues and triangulation.
Intervention for Children: Identify the impact of overt and covert conflict on child development and learn tools to foster resilience and coping skills.
Working with the Inflexible Parent: Practice applying ACT and CFT principles to help parents shift from the "fight to be right" to "doing what works".
Therapist Variables: Understand the specific therapeutic behaviours that improve or worsen outcomes to ensure you are always operating as a protective factor.
Sustenance for Your Training: Morning Tea, Lunch and Afternoon Tea are all included.
Questions You Might Have
This workshop is ideal for: Psychologists, Social Workers, Counsellors, Psychiatrists, Mental Health Nurses, GPs, and all other mental health professionals working with adults or children affected by separation.
We all know, we don't always get to choose who walks in the door. Sometimes it gets missed at triage, sometimes the dymaics change once you’re already working the client. You’ll walk away knowing the early signs that indicate its time to reassess, as well as strategies to confidently refer on when it feels outside of scope, without leaving your client feeling abandoned. This training is your professional liability insurance against burnout and legal risk.
The workshop is structured to provide the necessary theoretical foundations and context to understand the core principles the RACPS tool and intervention strategies are built on. Our focus is on practical application, not academic theory. Whatever treatment modality you prefer, you are most welcome here.
Your clients deserve a clinician who is confident, effective, and ethically protected. You deserve clarity, safety and sustainability. Book your place today!
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