I’m Your Coach
I’m a professionally trained High-Conflict Divorce Coach and a Certified Divorce Mediator. My area of expertise is in navigating the drama and difficulty of high-conflict divorce and a lot of my work with clients has to do with crafting custody agreements, responding to combative communications, and helping parents support their children with a difficult or dangerous co-parent.
My other goal as a divorce coach is to help single parents make it through the trauma and hard work of divorce not just intact, but in better shape than when they entered into it. Before becoming a coach, I’ve had a successful acupuncture and functional medicine practice for over 20 years, have extensive training in Non-Violent Communication and have engaged in ongoing Buddhist studies with a dedicated meditation practice since 2001. I use these skills to help you take exceptional care of yourself and your kids, and to heal the personal beliefs and communication difficulties that would otherwise derail your progress as you move forward into your new life.
Having been through my own high-conflict divorce, I offer a unique perspective on divorce coaching. I learned firsthand how empowerment and happiness come first from our own growth, regardless of how challenging, scary, or abusive the divorce process becomes. There is great safety and freedom in single-parenting life, and I want this for other parents who are going through a similar time: to feel safe, secure, happy, and free, to have healthy, strong bonds with their children, and to live their life with peace and confidence.
My coaching practice extends to changing the collective view of divorce from a shameful, tragic event to a holistic, transformative one. While divorce still holds a stigma in our culture, I write extensively about how leaving unhealthy marriages can break the chains of abuse, raise the consciousness of all those involved, and release parents and kids from the societal expectation that all homes must contain two married parents to be healthy homes. As divorced parents we have the potential to become better communicators, to set better boundaries, and to know ourselves better than before. My hope is that, when you work with me, you will grow to understand that even at its worst, divorce is not a tragedy, it is a rite of passage.