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.

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.

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.

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.