Blended Families, Single Parents &
Parents navigating Infidelity
THE SEAMLESS BLEND
The Seamless Blend provide expertise in three streams of support for complex families: blended family support; newly single parent guidance and parenting through affairs. We offer trauma-informed, child-focused, family-centred support, guidance and recovery to navigate the complexity faced by blended families, newly single parents and those battling the trauma of infidelity. The Seamless Blend operates throughout Australia, New Zealand and the United States, with individual and couples consultations, as well as interactive workshop for all three streams of service available.
The Seamless Blend is not marriage counselling leading into family support, but instead specialist experts in complex family dynamics across all family relationships . This is critical in understanding and supporting the painful experiences specific to blended families, families in affair recovery and newly single parents.
Our methodology is grounded in strengths based, and self-care practices that are practical and easy for families to apply in real world situations. Equally all education, coaching and practices are validated through evidence, research findings and collaboration with highly regarded clinical professionals.
Most importantly, we recognise 'you' as the expert of 'your' family and collaborate with our clients to ensure all solutions are values aligned, family-centred and sustainable for your family. ​​​
THE SEAMLESS BLEND
Blended Families, Single Parents &
Parents navigating Infidelity
The Seamless Blend provides blended family support; trauma-informed family recovery to parents navigating infidelity and therapeutic coaching to newly single parents. Our family support groups, couples consultation and individual support is offered throughout Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Unlike many similar services, The Seamless Blend does not provide marriage counsellors, but instead offers family-centred specialist expertise with specific experience in complex family dynamics and family relationships. This is critical in understanding and supporting the painful experiences specific to blended families, families in affair recovery and newly single parents.
Our methodology is grounded in strengths based, trauma-informed, child-focused practices that are practical and easy for families to apply in real world situations. Equally all education and practices are validated through evidence, research findings and collaboration with highly regarded clinical professionals.
Most importantly, we recognise 'you' as the expert of 'your' family and collaborate with our clients to ensure all solutions are values aligned, family-centred and sustainable for your family. ​​​​​
THE SEAMLESS BLEND
Blended Families, Single Parents & Parents navigating Infidelity
The Seamless Blend provides support to blended families, single parents and parents navigating infidelity. We operate throughout Australia, New Zealand, United States and Canada.
We are not marriage counsellors or relationship therapists, but experts on complex family dynamics and those struggling through painful familial challenges.
Our methodology is grounded in strengths based, trauma-inform, child-focused coaching practices that are practical and easy for families to apply in real world situations, yet validated through evidence, research findings and collaboration with highly regarded clinical and sector aligned professionals.
Most importantly, we recognise 'you' as the expert of 'your' family and collaborate with our clients to ensure all solutions are values aligned, family-centred and sustainable for your family. ​​​​
The struggle for
blended families?​​​​​
Blended families are beautiful and can enjoy wonderful lives. Most also navigate a range of significant complexities including: role confusion; blurred boundaries, parenting conflict, uneven financial loads, battles to co-parent fairly and guilt when failing to protect current partners or children. Even those who identify as simple blended families really are apart of a complex family network. ​
The Seamless Blend support blended families by providing specialist support, expertise and knowledge that help your family from, your values, and your nuanced blended family need. We step in at any stage that you may want, and work closely in collaboration with you, recognising "you" as the expert in "your" family. We also ensure every family member's views values, voices and needs are prioritised, before we share our knowledge and expertise to careful curate sustainable solutions together. We can do this via our individual or couples consultations or via small safe workshops designed for group learning and connecting.
What is a
blended family ?
A blended family can include any relationship that brings together adults and children from previous relationships. Blended families are sometimes also referred to as stepfamilies, with the modern term being coined to reflect the diverse circumstances of contemporary families, and recognise the emotional intention for two families to merge as one. Blended family can be:
Married people
​​​People living together
People in a relationship but not living together
Both adults may have children
One adult may not have children
Blended family members extend to include:
Children/Grandchildren/Nieces/Nephews
Parents/Grandparents/Aunties/Uncles
Stepparents/Step Grandparents/Step Aunties/Step Uncles
Husbands/Wives/Partners/De facto Partners/Girlfriends/Boyfriends
Ex-spouses or Ex-partners
Some realities for single parents
The transition into single parenting is a deeply difficult one, leaving both newly separated Mothers and Fathers feeling alone, emotional and struggling with practical changes. Finances, property matters and performing well at become new issues to battle. But for most people the overwhelming priority is getting co-parenting right, while fighting feelings of grief; loss; fear of judgement; loss of friends and family and anxiety about new parenting arrangements. Many mask their pain and confusion from children, work and most friends to silently manage the transition.
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The Seamless Blend offers a specialists safe space to with experts who can listen, provide guidance and encouragement as you transition through new and daunting areas of life including - parenting; new and changing relationships, workplace supports available and enabling your next chapter of enjoyment and growth. Our single parent services include, small safe group workshops—which also are a great way of making meaningful connections—or most popular, individual consultations. We also offer co-parenting for 'separated-couples' consultations, a really wonderful option to establish positive co-parenting from the beginning. All of our services prioritise self-care—a critical yet often neglected pillar for single parents.
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Parenting through infidelity & betrayal
Infidelity causes devastation on a family. Often the couple navigate a litany of pain - deeply damaged trust, insecurity, anxiety, trauma, depression, feelings of grief, loss, guilt, shame, anger, sadness, fear and many more.
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In the background are often are children who have picked up the pain and hurt of both parents – the betrayed partner/parent struggling to parent well through triggers and processing of shock, anger, grief and trauma, and their straying partner/parent struggling to parent well through guilt, shame, and their own trauma - sometimes separated from the family temporarily or permanently at this time. From toddlers to adults - all children with parents going through infidelity experience deep trauma, pain and confusion.
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We offer an expert lens to create a safe space for parenting to continue through infidelity recovery. Our aim is for family healing to begin/continue, and for children's trauma to be minimised through the process of recovery. We enable this by helping hurt parents learn and understand about their children's needs through betrayal.
We work in close partnership with international betrayal expert Dr Kathy Nickerson P.h.D. on the complexity of adult infidelity. The Seamless Blend ensures we work to compassionately and to family-inclusive, trauma-informed, strengths-based methodologies.
Seamless Blend
Background
The Seamless Blend was founded by Angelika and Trent Broederlow because, as they blended their family and sought supports, they realised they only real support on offer were marriage counselling or mediation. Angelika and Trent realised they didn’t have ‘marriage problems’ and that what they were really seeking was a whole-of-family approach….
