How can you help me?
What is a Separation and Divorce Support Coach?
Whether you are considering separating, have separated, close to finalising your divorce, or are post divorce, we offer you the emotional support as well and the legal, financial, parenting and recovery guidance you need to genuinely empower you.
Whilst we do not discount the value of working with a lawyer in some circumstances, a lot of the expense can be done without having to incur their significant hourly rates. We save you a lot of money, stress, overwhelm, disorganisation and conflict by providing the right support when you need it.
Some of the most common ways our Separation Coaches and Counsellors assist our clients include:
✅provide the emotional support you need - whether you just want to vent, to grieve, to have someone to lean on, to help set your boundaries and identify your triggers...
✅understand your legal options (pros and cons for you and the reality of how they may work for your relationship)
and next steps
✅work through communciation strategies for the hard discussions with the kids, your former partner, extended family
✅how to reduce the impact of separation on the kids
✅how to effectively negotiate with your former partner
✅administrative support on what you need to do
✅gathering all your financials and supporting documentation
✅preparing draft financial arrangements
✅drafting parenting plans
✅security support and domestic and family violence guidance
✅help you to connect to any other specialists you may need help from - valuers, mortgage brokers, financial planners, forensic accountants, psychologists, mediator, lawyer
✅prepare you for mediation if required
✅career advisory assistance and life coaching
✅co-parenting support
✅single parenting support
✅financial advisory and financial recovery support
✅estate planning/updating wills/conveyancing/rewrite of trusts
✅wellness assistance, help you reconnect with life and others.
We are your one-on-one support person to help counsel and guide you with the many aspects of your separation, divorce and your new life beyond. We strive to ensure our clients achieve fair financial outcomes and parenting arrangements, that are ultimately in the best interest of the children. We are there for our clients well after the paper work is done and the emotional and parenting and financial support is needed.
As hard as it may be to envisage right now, we will help you emerge through this, with greater confidence direction and recovery.
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"We give our clients the support and strategies to get them through this tough time. This business was created because I was sick of watching people going through separation and divorce feeling so overwhelmed, charged so much by advisors, often still not getting a fair deal, seeing first hand the impact the high conflict had on everyone, especially their children and the sense of abandonment people felt after the paperwork was done..
I want our clients to emerge from the process educated and empowered to enable them to thrive in the next stage of their lives. We don't abandon our clients once the documents are all signed. We regularly offer a wide array of ongoing support to our clients, post divorce, to help each individual client continue to reach their future goals and recover."
- Susan, Separation and Divorce Coach
(Honours Law Degree with majors in psychology and coaching)
Pre- SepAration
If you are considering Separation, we can help you carefully plan and provide you with the support you need.
Understand what to expect during separation and the legal requirements
Discuss the options for separation to reach agreements in a cost effective way
Develop a separation plan to help you feel organised, educated and empowered through the process
Ensure you have a safe exit strategy and can remain safe
Learn how to communicate with your spouse and children about separating
Understand how to protect your assets and secure your finances before separating
Address any domestic violence or child safety concerns
Provide counselling and coaching support.
When Separation
Has occured
Feeling confused? Do you need help understanding what to do next?
We've Got You!
Understand what it means legally to be separated and what to expect during separation
Understand your legal options to reach financial property and/or parenting arrangements and how to minimise your costs along the way
Create a separation plan
Assistance to gather critical documentation and evidence
Child and spousal support options
Legal document preparation
Prepare for mediation, if required
Assist with domestic violence concerns
Counselling and coaching and emotional support
Communication and co-parenting strategies and how to set boundaries
Securing your information and property
Specialist referrals as required including asset and business valuers, banks, mortgage brokers, lawyers.
Near Conclusion of Separation stages & Beyond
We don't just help you get your parenting, financials and divorce sorted. We are still there for the next chapter to provide ongoing support when you need it.
Finalise your parenting and/or financial/property agreements
Mediation support if required
Preparing the family emotionally for divorce
Preparing and filing the Divorce application
Updating wills and other key family legal and administrative documents
Asset valuation support (including property and business assets)
Life coaching and counselling
Improve co-parenting skills
Resume, career assistance and interview training
Financial education including financial planning, budgeting, loan refinancing, mortgage broking.
What do I do next to get help?
No matter where you are in the separation or divorce stage, we understand how hard it is, and we are here to support you. You are not alone.
We help reduce the stress by providing you with the education and practical guidance you need to understand all the options available to you.
We also carefully listen to you on what you want to do, to move forward. If you would like to arrange an online 30-minute complimentary mini session we can discuss where you are at and what help you feel you need, at your stage in the process. This just requires a Zoom connection.
We will be honest about what we can do to assist you to get the best outcome, and give you a firm understanding of the costs associated with the help. It will not be a sales pitch from us.
If you decide to proceed with Separation Support Network, you are welcome to book a PAID one-on-one confidential consultation with one of our highly trained senior separation support personnel. The first appointment will require a new client form to be completed and returned, to help us gain a better understanding of your position and to not waste your precious time.
As seen in our testimonials, we are renowned for having excellent relationships with our clients and are very conscious of providing quality, affordable services, all the way.
We take great pride in ensuring that every one of our service providers have your best interests at heart, emotionally and financially. Our motto is ‘providing our clients with a hug all the way.’
Why should I use Separation Support Network instead of going to a traditional law firm?
Separation Support Network provides one-on-one support to guide you through the entire separation and divorce process. We provide counselling support, help you navigate the immediate practical steps of your separation, listen to your unique circumstances, outline your options and recommend the services you need. We also provide help long term through your separation and divorce journey to reach your longer term goals.
We do have a panel of lawyers who can assist, if and when required, but we work with you to avoid legal costs as much as possible by helping you understand all your options, assist you to gather your documentation and evidence, draft your proposed terms, and coordinate other specialist support if required to support your position. This helps avoid a lot of the initial outlays you would normally experience in a law firm, which often charge very high legal costs, per hour, for their time. It also helps you avoid a lot of time, stress and frustration.
Once legal matters are resolved by traditional firms, our clients report they often feel a sense of confusion and concern about what comes next - on how to actually co-parent and fulfill the parenting obligations, how to deal with the financial arrangements that were agreed upon, where to obtain the necessary financial education to manage your settlement, and how to secure your financial future. There is often the need to get help to change other key legal and financial documents, strategies to assist with co-parenting and communication with former partners, sorting the sale of assets, access to counselling for the family, finding a new career or a plan on how to start the next chapter of life. Separation Support Network can walk beside you through all of this. We help you find the care you need and work collaboratively with a team who can assist.
Our aim is to ensure our clients are safe, emotionally supported all the way, personally educated and empowered to make their own decisions, and ultimately achieve a fair and equitable settlement, suitable parenting arrangement and successful future.
What range of support can you offer me?
The most common things said to us over the years by our clients:
"I am so confused about what to do next, where to get the help I need and who to trust."
"I can't work out what financial documents I even need to access and what I have to disclose ."
"I worked all my life to save and secure my superannuation and now we are going to destroy it with all the ongoing legal bills."
"I was a good parent and we had a great relationship but now I just can't reconnect with them."
We hear you!
Separation Support Network is essentially a one stop service network where you no longer need to spend countless hours finding the resources, locating kind and supportive care, legal and financial expertise, all at an affordable rate.
We work alongside incredibly experienced, supportive specialists who share our values in making the separation and divorce process more amicable, more empowering, more supportive and more affordable.
Mediators
Psychologists and counsellors
Parent assist programmes
Empower programmes
Lawyers
Domestic Violence support
Financial Planners and Advisors
Property Valuers including farming valuers
Banking advice
Business and Company valuers
Forensic Accounting and IT
Private Investigators
Accountants
Mortgage Brokers
Business brokers
Conveyancing and Will and Estate Planning support
Life Coaches
High Conflict Coaches
Career assist - resumes, job applications and interview preparation.
Empower You programmes
Our clients have also reached out and requested that we prepare practical and affordable resources including audio/visual podcasts and webinars which consist of easy to understand, questions and answers to many of the day-to-day issues that they experience, but don’t know how to do. These can be booked and listened to at any time, anywhere by our clients. A transcript is also provided for our paid webinars.
In late 2024, Separation Support Network will release a series of highly practical webinars for all our clients at a very affordable price which can be viewed any time, anywhere as part of our new Separation and Divorce course.
These webinars are not just made up of general information about topics. They are step by step practical guides on how to get through this challenging process to ensure your safety and legal rights.
We have interviewed some of the leading experts on these most sought after topics and hope that you find the content understandable, relatable and invaluable. Please feel free to reach out anytime to suggest additional topics you would like us to add to our webinar library or to add to our course.
What is your cancellation and refund policy?
Given the nature of our support services, last minute cancellations are costly, and it means that other clients may miss out on receiving the required support. For cancellations within 48 hours of the scheduled appointment there is a $65 part fee payment. For less than 24 hours cancellation notice or a non-show, the full session fee will need to be charged. These fees are refunded however if the session can be filled at the last minute. Thank you for your understanding.
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