How do you tell your children, your family and friends? Is communicating with your soon-to-be ex difficult, painful, or nearly impossible? You wonder where you will live and how your lifestyle may change.
Are you concerned that your attorney fees will deplete your children’s college fund? Do you worry about how all of this will impact your children’s healthy development?
So many overwhelming feelings permeate your life and that of your children: anxious, embarrassed, resentful, depressed, confused, helpless, hopeless, sad, angry, shamed, lonely, fearful or guilty.
How does divorce affect the children?
Research has shown that the most important factor affecting children’s adjustment to divorce is the quality of the relationship between the parents during the separation. The decisions you make now are critical to how well you and your children will adjust to the upcoming changes.
How are you doing?
It is not unusual to experience a prolonged feeling of anxiety and depression. Feelings of being overwhelmed and unable to gain control of your life are rampant resulting from the often-total upheaval to the normal day-to-day routine.
- Single parenting
- Time management
- Socializing and dating
- Relationships with “his” or “her” family
- Co-parenting with your ex
- Mediating conflicts with your ex
- A customized parenting plan that supports your children’s healthy development
I help you take care of yourself, navigate the process and be child-focused. I support you preserving your assets, so you put YOUR kids through college… not your attorney’s kids.
I partner with you to ensure that your actions demonstrate that you “love your kids more than you hate your ex.” Your children get one childhood, and you have the power to make it the very best it can be.
A Successful Divorce Is Possible!
Successful divorce involves the process of emotional separation, reaching a new center of balance as a single person, caring for your children, and improving the co-parenting relationship with your child’s other parent.
Your future path can provide a healthy child-focused transition for you and your family that enhances each parent’s strengths and helps your children get the very best of what you each have to offer them.
I am a compassionate and experienced therapist who has extensive knowledge and insight about many of the predictable and managable aspects of the divorce process. I partner with you to carefully consider your options to make the best possible decisions for a fuller life for you and your children.
Take the First Step in Your New Chapter Now
I provide a free 30-minute personalized telephone consultation where together we strategize what you’re doing well and where we can work together to build on your unique strengths and capabilities for the best possible outcome for you and your children.
Meet Susan
I have devoted my professional career to helping parents and children successfully complete the divorce process, guiding parents in making life better for the next generation. I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and have extensive training and experience both personally and professionally with the many predictable issues related to separation and divorce.
Having comprehensive and extensive training in the best interest of children whose parents are undergoing separation and divorce, I have prepared hundreds of custody and parenting time evaluations for Family Court and frequently serve in an expert witness capacity. I guide my clients to help them present their best during this process.
I define myself as an experienced, practical, and compassionate guide at every stage of the divorce process.
