How a Certified Divorce Coach® Can Help You Navigate Divorce
How a Certified Divorce Coach® Can Help You Navigate Divorce
Divorce changes your life and forces you to make important choices about your future. It can be hard on the emotions, and you might be wondering things like, “Where will I live?” “How am I going to pay for a lawyer?” “When should I tell my kids?” ‘Am I making the right choice?’ “How long will it take?” It may seem impossible to get through the process, but a Certified Divorce Coach® can help by giving you professional support and direction.
Why Consult a Certified Divorce Coach First?
A Certified Divorce Coach® is a professional, neutral person who helps you understand the problems that can come up during the divorce process, find answers that work for you, and give you referrals if needed. While going through this difficult process, you can get organized, get ready, and find mental support with the help of a divorce coach.
What Is A Certified Divorce Coach?
A CDC Certified Divorce Coach® is a professional who helps you navigate the divorce process. Divorce coaches are experts in all aspects of divorce, including the divorce process, co-parenting, parental planning, child development, and the effects of divorce on children, among others. Divorce coaching is not therapy; it is a goal-oriented approach to guiding you through a difficult situation.
The American Bar Association defines divorce coaching: “Divorce coaching is a flexible, goal-oriented process designed to support, motivate, and guide people going through the divorce to help them make the best possible decisions for their future, based on their particular interests, needs, and concerns.”
How Can A Divorce Coach Help?
Provide assistance and guidance
Instead of using your lawyer as a sounding board, a divorce guide helps you work through your feelings and thoughts. They give you support and advice, which helps you work through your thoughts without having to pay an expensive lawyer by the hour.
Help You Explore Your Options
The next steps will depend on whether you choose a collaborative divorce, mediation, DIY divorce, or litigation. You can make the greatest decision for your family by understanding these possibilities with the guidance of a divorce coach. Examine the various divorce procedures.
Ensure You’re Prepared
A divorce coach will advise you to prepare yourself mentally for meetings with your spouse or divorce specialists, make goals, and collect the required documentation.
Building a team
A divorce coach can offer professional referrals for your specific requirements. Among the resources are financial experts, divorce mortgage specialists, mediators, lawyers, and therapists. A divorce coach can also assist you in identifying additional sources of support, including your school, church, friends, or neighbors, who can assist you during the process.
Improve Communication Skills
During a divorce, it’s critical to have confident and effective communication skills. Finding strategies to communicate effectively with your husband and other professionals is essential for fruitful negotiations, and a divorce coach can help.
Increase your self-esteem and confidence
Divorce might make you feel unprepared or undeserving. As you get ready for a bright future, a divorce coach boosts your confidence and helps you see your worth.
Set co-parenting goals and strategy
Effective co-parenting is essential for parents. A divorce coach gives you the skills you need to talk to your children clearly and make a plan that prioritizes their welfare.
Separate Emotions from Legal Concerns
Divorce has both legal and emotional difficulties. A divorce coach helps you keep your feelings out of the legal process so you can make wise decisions with objectivity.
Transition to Single Life
The transition to single life can be full of unknowns. A divorce coach assists you in adjusting to this new chapter and recognizing the benefits of freedom.
Start Your Journey with a Free Discovery Session
Take advantage of the FREE 30 minute discovery session with The Bridging Coach to ask questions and get help. Schedule a time that works for you: https://calendly.com/thebridgingcoach/30min
Bridget Leschinsky is a CDC Certified Divorce Coach®
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