For many, divorce is the most painful experience you will ever go through. The world as you knew it, is often turned upside down, your thoughts and feelings are churning and friends don't want to hear about it anymore. Although divorce may prove to be inevitable, the new method of Collaborative Divorce insures that it does not have to be unbearable. The divorcing couple, working with a multi-disciplinary team of professionals (attorneys, divorce coaches, neutral financial specialist and child specialist) is assisted in resolving all the issues of their dissolution WITHOUT going into a courtroom. The collaborative team helps the couple move forward in awkward and uncomfortable times, recognizing that divorce is more than a legal event. The divorcing couple must commit to open and honest communication and value the welfare of their changing family unit above individual needs. The collaborative team has an ABSOLUTE COMMITMENT to settlement, while allowing the divorcing couple to retain the decision making power in all issues addressed. The clients select their Collaborative team at the inception of the case. Each spouse chooses a Collaborative lawyer and Divorce Coach, and together , the clients select a neutral Financial Specialist and a Child Specialist.

As your divorce coach, I function as "air traffic controller", facilitating communication between the divorcing couple and the rest of the professional team. I help you to develop a co-parenting plan that will WORK, as well as teaching you to keep separate your highly volatile emotions, so that they do not interfere with sound decision making for your future. I become your very own "personal trainer" through the divorce process, helping you to focus on the real issues of the future - not past angers, hurt and disappointment. Issues will be turned into interests, as you learn new problem solving skills for conflict resolution and post-divorce parenting.

For those of you who want to remain whole after the divorce is over, who want to spare your children the anguish and grief you are experiencing, and who truly want to establish a healthy co-parenting arrangement with your former spouse, Collaborative Divorce is your answer.

 

For RESULTS NOT REGRETS, call Jann Glasser LCSW, MFT, Divorce Coach