Even highly accomplished people can struggle with decision-making during divorce. The reason isn't intelligence. Conflict, perceived threat and emotion can change how we evaluate risk, interpret information and make decisions about our future.

Before divorce becomes a conflict between two people, it often begins as a conflict within one. Explore how conflict-focused divorce coaching can help clients navigate ambivalence, competing interests, fear, uncertainty, and information gaps—without directing the decision—so they can better understand their choices and exercise meaningful self-determination.

This summer, I once again had the opportunity to leave Florida behind for a while and spend several weeks traveling throughout New England. Somewhere along the way, this has become more than just a summer trip. It's become a chance to revisit the places that shaped my childhood and, perhaps even more importantly, to reflect on how those places have shaped me.

What can The Wizard of Oz teach us about divorce? More than you might think. Before people choose mediation, litigation, or another legal path, they often need something far more important: the opportunity to understand themselves, their conflict patterns, and where they truly want to go. Discover why early guidance may be the missing piece in family dispute resolution.

Are you rethinking your career? As artificial intelligence reshapes the future of work, many professionals are asking for more than a paycheck. They're seeking greater autonomy, flexibility, creativity, and purpose. Discover why divorce coaching is emerging as a meaningful career path for experienced professionals looking to build a future on their own terms.

Anyone can call themselves a divorce coach. That's exactly the problem. An ADR divorce coach is a conflict-informed dispute resolution professional — defined by scope of practice, competencies, and ethics, not by whatever background a practitioner happens to bring. A clear definition of the profession, what it is, and what it is not.

There's a moment at the end of every divorce that nobody talks about. The final agreement is signed. The attorney closes the file. The mediator moves on to the next case. The financial professional wraps the analysis. Even the therapist, if there was one, often concludes treatment once the acute crisis passes. Everyone leaves. And the client walks out the door into the rest of their life, a life that now includes co-parenting exchanges, holiday negotiations, a former spouse w

Most parents who create loyalty conflicts don't mean to. They're hurting and that pain leaks onto their children in ways they never intended. The loyalty conflict trap doesn't require a parent to say "choose me." It only requires the child to feel it. Learn how subtle pressure, emotional middle placement, and loyalty binds form silently and what it takes to repair the damage.

Adding "divorce coach" to your name isn't the same as earning it. Related, not transferable—proximity is not proficiency. A founding member of Divorce Coaches Academy® on the credentialing gap our field can no longer afford to ignore.

Most people don't realize they've handed over the keys until they're already halfway through a process they can no longer sustain. The divorce budget conversation — the one that should happen before anything else — is the conversation almost nobody is having. And the silence is costing people far more than money.

How do we better understand a child’s experience during divorce without unintentionally making them responsible for it? This article explores a child-informed, child-centered approach and the role divorce coaches can play in helping adults build awareness, hold conflict differently, and make decisions that protect childhood without placing children in the middle.

As clients build emotional capacity during divorce, they often begin seeing relationship patterns differently. Sometimes the most significant shift is realizing you cannot create growth, willingness, or change in another person. Discover how divorce coaching helps individuals gain clarity, strengthen their own capacity, and move forward with greater intention.

Strong boundaries do not make divorce coaches less helpful, they make them more effective. This article explores how role clarity, ethical practice, and professional boundaries strengthen client outcomes, support capacity building, and reinforce the integrity of divorce coaching as an ADR informed profession.

Divorce coaching sits at the intersection of emotional support, conflict strategy, communication, and ethical boundaries. But where does support end and overreach begin? This article explores the growing ethical tension at the center of divorce coaching and why competency, conflict literacy, and scope of practice matter more than ever as the profession continues to evolve.

How divorce coaching may help individuals reduce unnecessary conflict, improve communication, prepare more effectively for mediation and legal meetings, and utilize attorneys and other divorce professionals more efficiently throughout the divorce process.

Explore where the line actually is between divorce coaching and the unauthorized practice of law. Learn how conflict-informed divorce coaches support clients through the legal process of divorce while maintaining ethical boundaries around legal advice and representation.

Divorce coaching is redefining dispute resolution by helping clients manage conflict, improve decision-making, and participate more effectively in mediation and family law processes.

Divorce doesn’t just cost money—it drains time, energy, and relationships. In high-conflict cases, the real issue isn’t the legal process, but the individual’s ability to engage in it. Learn how divorce coaching reduces legal fees, shortens timelines, and improves outcomes.

High conflict communication in divorce increases legal complexity, costs, and long-term conflict. This article explores how patterns like gaslighting and escalation develop and how structured, ADR-aligned divorce coaching shifts outcomes.

In divorce, certainty often feels like clarity—but it’s what keeps people stuck. When individuals become certain about what’s right, fair, or true, they stop exploring and start defending. This blog examines certainty vs. curiosity in conflict, revealing how unexamined assumptions drive escalation and how curiosity acts as a powerful intervention to improve communication, expand perspective, and support better decision-making.