What is a Divorce Coach?
A divorce coach is a licensed mental health professional trained in the collaborative process. A divorce coach can help you set priorities, stay focused, communicate effectively with your attorney or the other party and establish a good foundation for your life after the divorce. The divorce coach is available at any stage in the collaborative process to assist in optimizing the process.
Separation and divorce are at the top of the list of life’s stressors; the effect on families can be devastating, and the impact felt for many years. Relationships are damaged, sometimes irreversibly, by the intense feelings of confusion, anger, loss and conflict. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can choose to minimize the impact of separation and divorce on your family by working with a Divorce Coach in the Collaborative process. Divorce Coaches are professionals with a counseling background who have expertise in family dynamics. They also have specialized training in the Collaborative process and mediation. In a supportive and counselling role, your Divorce Coach assists you in being at your best in the process of separation and divorce by helping to resolve the intensity of emotions involved and improving the communication skills needed to move through the process. In four-way meetings, your Coach is there to ensure that your needs, concerns and feelings are understood by you
A divorce coach is a communication specialist. This expert has at least 5 years of experience as a Marriage Family Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Psychologist, and has received specialized training in the collaborative process. The job of a divorce coach is to help their client identify “hot button issues” and to teach their client ways to defuse those conflict areas to maximize settlement options. What is a Child Specialist and how do I know if we need one? One of the primary motivations of couples interested in collaborative divorce is to protec1 the children from fallout of the divorce – stress and trauma. The role of the child specialist is to help the parents craft a parenting plan that is in their children’s best interest. Parents can become so caught up in their own emotions that they may not be able to separate their interest from those of their children. The child specialist meets with the parties together and with their children to assess the dynamics of the fa
