Divorce Support

Providing Emotional Support Through Divorce

Supporting clients through divorce is important to me, both personally and professionally. As a child I survived my parents’ divorce, then decades later survived my own. I use the word survived intentionally. The dismantling of a marriage can create devastating emotions of grief, fear and loneliness. Many who have experienced this will testify to the experience as being traumatic, with feelings of sadness and grief often times crippling. Yet, it is possible to successfully manage the experience and emotions of this transition. Engaging in talk-therapy can lead  to emerging awareness, acceptance and a victor mentality.  Clients will create intentional emotional strategies to propel them forward towards healing and creating a different, yet meaningful life.

  • It is normal to experience a multitude of emotions during divorce. The dismantling of a marriage, splitting of a family, will create devastating symptoms of sadness, fear and loneliness. Worthlessness.

    Many who have experienced this will testify the experience as traumatic, with feelings similar to traumatic grief. PTSD, recurring fears and bad memories. Debilitating anxiety, creating difficulty in making decisions. Lifestyle altering, time consuming.

    Managing yourself through this process is hard enough, then add children. Various symptoms of depression. Emerging changed, yes.

    I have guided couples through the painful process of creating two family households. Couples can succeed in getting through divorce with support for themselves and children. Identifying as a single adult and a co-parent. Constructively manage anger.

  • After your divorce is complete, papers signed, parenting plans and financial divisions made. How do you live with these decisions? This may be the most difficult part of the process, the finality. Decisions have been made yet now you have to live with these divisions. Living singly. Managing expectations, the aftermath and supporting children in a two family household. These are unique challenges.

    Emotional strategies include: intentional self-care, anger management, forward thinking and healing.

    As a therapist, the best gift is to help lead you into acceptance and radical change. Intentional healing on life’s plan through strategy and working through guilt and shame. And additionally working to minimize the impact that divorce has on children.