We provide you with the products, tools and services to make your separation and divorce simpler, faster, cheaper and less stressful.
As hard as it may be to envisage right now, we will help you emerge through this, with greater confidence, direction and recovery.
"We give our clients the resources, support and strategies they need to get them through this tough time and confidently emerge .
This business was created because I was sick of watching people going through separation and divorce feeling so overwhelmed, often unnecessarily charged so much by advisors, still not getting a fair deal, seeing first hand the impact the high conflict had on everyone, especially the 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 so they can genuinely 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
Susan Crain
CEO
Separation and Divorce Coach & Author
Susan has a degree in both Law (Honours) and has majored in Psychology and Coaching. She has worked for over 30 years to support women and men in Australia and New Zealand to not only provide them with the emotional support they often need during the daunting separation and divorce process, but also the legal and financial guidance, resources and strategies they need to reduce their legal costs and financial loss, reduce their overwhelm and confusion, and reduce the impact on their children. She is passionate about ensuring her clients emerge from the process confident and in greater control of their own futures.
She has written many resources over the decades in this field for her clients, which have not only allowed her clients to feel empowered by knowledge of the process and options, organised and in greater control of the process, but also safe, supported and seen.
She has worked with many community and legal centres, and has been a board member ,advisor and volunteer to numerous organisations including Act for Kids, Rize Up, Open Haven, Mater Hospital, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Caxton Legal Centre, Gold Coast Community Legal Centre, Womens Wellness Hub. Susan is the key author of all the publications available at Separation Support Network and provides personalised one on one coaching for her clients, as required.
Meet Susan in a 15 minute free consultation to discuss how we can best assist you going forward.
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.
Questions about our
Services?
Cancellation or missed sessions 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.
How are your counselling and coaching sessions held?
We know our clients are time poor and many are rurally and remotely located.
For your convenience, all our sessions are now available online via Zoom.
You can book your appointment online via this website.
Zoom allows us to connect with you via video and audio. It just requires you to click on a link to join. You can sign up to Zoom to create a FREE account and download the Zoom Client for Meetings. Zoom does require internet connections.
After you book you will be sent a reminder about the booking and emailed a link to connect at the booked time. You are also likely to be sent a client information form to complete prior to your initial consultation to enable our Counsellors and Coaches to be better prepared for your first meeting.
If you are unable to make any of the dates available please reach out by email to arrange a time that may suit you and we will do our best to accommodate you: [email protected]
Webinars - how they are received, transcripts and worksheets
Separation Support Network provides highly affordable webinars on topics that assist our clients to stay well informed, highly organised, better supported and empowered to thrive in the next chapter of their lives. To stay up to date on webinars as they are released, sign up to our newsletter.
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