Practical support through separation and divorce.
Facing separation or divorce? Divorce coaching can help you regain clarity, confidence and control.
Divorce coaching can help you regain clarity, confidence and control.
Separation and divorce can be emotionally and practically overwhelming. You may be facing difficult decisions about your relationship, finances, your home, your children and your future – often while trying to manage conflict and communicate with your former partner.
You don’t have to navigate all of this on your own.
At Crowther Mediation, our divorce coaching service provides confidential, practical and individual support for people going through separation, divorce and life after relationship breakdown.
Our divorce coach, Louise Neilson, helps clients understand what they are dealing with, identify their priorities and develop practical strategies to move forward.
Divorce coaching is about helping you make your own decisions with greater clarity, confidence and control.
Divorce coaching is different from both legal advice and counselling. It is a practical, forward-focused service designed to help you navigate the challenges that arise during separation and divorce.
Divorce coaching can help you:
Your coach won’t tell you what decisions to make. Instead, they will help you understand your options, identify what matters to you and work out the steps that are right for your circumstances.
Divorce coaching is a confidential one-to-one service designed to support you through the practical and emotional challenges of separation and divorce.
It sits alongside other professional services you may need during divorce.
You don’t have to wait until you are formally separated to seek divorce coaching.
Perhaps you are considering whether your relationship can continue. Perhaps you have decided that you want to separate but don’t know how to begin.
You may be worried about:
Talking these issues through with a divorce coach can help you organise your thoughts and consider your next steps before making important decisions.
Once a relationship has ended, the practical demands can feel relentless.
There may be decisions to make about your home, finances, children and future, while at the same time dealing with the emotional impact of the relationship ending.
Divorce coaching provides a confidential space where you can step back from the immediate pressure and focus on what you need to do next.
Your coaching sessions can help you:
Some separations are more difficult than others.
Where communication has broken down, or where your former partner is behaving in a controlling, manipulative or highly conflictual way, it can be particularly difficult to know how to respond.
Divorce coaching can provide practical support in navigating these situations.
Your coach can help you consider:
Where there are concerns about domestic abuse, coercive control or your personal safety, specialist legal and safeguarding support may also be appropriate. Divorce coaching does not replace specialist domestic abuse services or legal advice.
For many separating parents, the end of the relationship does not mean the end of their relationship with their former partner.
Instead, you need to find a way to continue parenting together.
That can be challenging, particularly where communication is difficult or there is ongoing conflict.
Divorce coaching can help you develop a more constructive approach to co-parenting, including:
The aim is not to create a perfect relationship with your former partner. It is to help you develop a workable approach to your new relationship as co-parents.
Divorce coaching and family mediation can work particularly well together, but they are different services.
Family mediation is an impartial process in which a trained mediator helps separating couples discuss and resolve issues such as finances, property and arrangements for their children.
Divorce coaching is individual support for one person.
A divorce coach can help you prepare for mediation by helping you identify:
Coaching can also continue alongside or after mediation, particularly where you need support implementing new arrangements or adjusting to life after separation.
At Crowther Mediation, we can help you understand which service – or combination of services – may be appropriate for your circumstances.
A solicitor and a divorce coach provide very different types of support.
Your solicitor’s role is to provide legal advice and advise you on your legal rights and options.
Your divorce coach’s role is to provide personal and practical support.
For example, your coach can help you prepare for a solicitor appointment by identifying the questions you need answered and helping you organise the issues you want to discuss.
This can help you feel more prepared and make your legal appointments more focused.
Divorce coaching does not replace legal advice. We recommend obtaining independent legal advice where appropriate.
Divorce coaching may be helpful if you are:
You don’t need to have a particular problem or be at a particular stage of divorce.
Sometimes, having an experienced person outside your immediate family and friendship circle to talk things through with can make a significant difference.
Louise Neilson brings specialist divorce coaching expertise together with an extensive background in family law and mediation.
Louise is a fully accredited Practitioner and Master Practitioner in Divorce & Breakup Coaching and trained as a Master Practitioner under Sara Davison.
She holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from Cambridge University and previously worked as a barrister in London, specialising in family law, before becoming a senior university law lecturer specialising in family law. Louise has also completed foundation training in family mediation.
This combination of legal knowledge, family law experience, mediation understanding and specialist divorce coaching training gives Louise a distinctive perspective when supporting people through separation and divorce.
Her approach is empathetic, practical and focused on helping clients move forward.
Louise works with both men and women and offers divorce coaching sessions online, allowing clients across the UK and internationally to access support.
There is no one-size-fits-all divorce coaching programme.
Your first session will focus on understanding your circumstances and identifying what you need help with.
Your subsequent sessions will then be tailored around your priorities.
Depending on your circumstances, coaching may focus on:
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