Find your footing in high-conflict co-parenting.
You don’t have to do this alone.

A co-parenting community is a group of parents raising children between two households who gather, usually online, to share support and build skills with others in similar situations. These communities come in several forms: local nonprofits that run workshops and classes, online forums where parents share stories without a coach or facilitator, therapy practices that offer peer support alongside clinical care, and coached private communities that provide structured skill-building with professional guidance. The right fit depends on your situation, especially whether the co-parenting relationship is high-conflict.

A high-conflict co-parenting community is built for parents whose co-parenting relationship involves ongoing hostility, control dynamics, chronic conflict, or communication that leaves one parent dysregulated. These communities focus on nervous-system regulation, disengagement skills, parallel parenting, court-aware communication, and protecting children from conflict, instead of cooperative co-parenting strategies that assume two willing partners. Solid Ground is a high-conflict co-parenting community led by Michelle Mitchell, J.D., a high-conflict co-parenting coach and former California litigator.

Solid Ground is for parents, stepparents, and grandparents or extended family in a high-conflict co-parenting situation, where the other parent’s behavior makes cooperative co-parenting difficult or impossible. Members include moms, dads, stepmoms, stepdads, and grandparents or extended family actively involved in a child’s day-to-day life. Solid Ground is not a fit if you have a cooperative co-parent and want help improving your communication, if you want couples counseling with your co-parent, or if you need legal representation or therapy.

Solid Ground is a fully online coaching community. Members join from anywhere in the United States and internationally. All community rooms, live Q&A sessions, Book Club, and the resource directory happen inside a private online platform, with no local meetings or in-person requirements. Michelle Mitchell is on the court-approved coach provider list for the San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Clara, and Marin Superior Courts, with applications in progress across additional counties nationwide.

Parallel parenting is a low-contact, disengaged way of raising children after separation when ongoing cooperation with the other parent is not safe or possible. Each parent operates independently to reduce conflict, while staying fully present for the children.

Solid Ground is built specifically for high-conflict situations, where standard co-parenting advice does not work. It focuses on nervous-system regulation, disengagement, court-aware communication, and protecting the children from the conflict.

Michelle Mitchell, J.D., is a high-conflict co-parenting coach and former California litigator with 20+ years of prior litigation experience. She is a Certified New Ways for Families® Instructor and Educator, a Certified High Conflict Diversion Program™ Coach and Educator (trained by Brook Olsen), an AFCC-trained Parent Coordinator, a Martha Beck Certified Wayfinder Coach, and trained in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing®. More about Michelle.

No. Solid Ground is coaching and community support. It is not legal representation or therapy, and it does not create an attorney-client or therapist-patient relationship. Coaching is not a substitute for legal counsel.

Yes. Members can participate under an avatar or alias, or use a first name and state. You choose your level of privacy.

Solid Ground has three levels. Community ($19/month founding rate) includes the community rooms, your role-based My Room, Book Club, and the resource directory. Grounded ($39/month founding rate) adds deeper teachings and practice exercises in The Stacks and twice-monthly Tea with Brittany live Q&A. Anchored ($99/month founding rate) adds twice-monthly Coffee with the Coach with Michelle, See it Applied video walkthroughs, and a full replay library. Every level starts with a free seven-day trial.

Facebook groups tend to reward venting and grievance loops, which keep parents stuck. Solid Ground is coach-monitored and structured around moving forward: nervous-system regulation, disengagement skills, court-aware communication, and protecting kids from conflict, with peers who help each other take the next step.

Choose your level and complete checkout, with the option to start a free seven-day trial. Then choose your Community Name or Alias and your parenting role. We review your privacy setup and private room access before activating your community access, and you’ll receive an email when it’s ready. The first 100 members lock in the founding rate for as long as they stay in the community.