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Creating Harmonious Relationships Between Grandparents and Their Adult Children ("The Parents")

The relationship between adult children and their parents changes dramatically with the arrival of grandchildren. The role of grandparents, and the boundaries that allow for positive relationships with their "grandchildren's parents", need to be established. Do you know how to navigate these tricky new waters that often "rock the boat"? 


New ways of approaching each other becomes central in the creation of a more mature and fulfilling relationship between adult children and their parents when kids come along.


Join Nickie Godfrey, LMFT, and Yolanda Noack, LCSW, as they present essential skills necessary to create relationship harmony and good humor, enabling kids to have multiple loving and secure connections free from grown-up conflicts.

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Nickie Godfrey, L.M.F.T. (MFC7685) is a licensed marriage family therapist for over 30 years and has a general psychotherapy practice in Encino. Working with individuals, couples, and groups, and focusing on personal empowerment and relationships, Nickie has expertise with parent/adult child relationships; life transitions; working with adult and adolescent survivors of incest and abuse; and crisis and trauma recovery. Consultant, It Ain’t Like When They Were little: Parenting Adult Children.  For more information visit parentingadultkids.com.


 


Yolanda Noack, L.C.S.W. (LCS 3411) is a licensed clinical social worker, and has been in private practice for more than three decades in the San Fernando Valley. In addition she has been on the counseling staff at CSUN, done executive coaching, and supervised psychology and social work trainees. Initially in her career Yolanda concentrated on working with individuals, but more recently she’s also focused on couples therapy and on the intergenerational issues that involve the parents of adult children. Consultant, It Ain’t Like When They Were little: Parenting Adult Children. For more information visit parentingadultkids.com.

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