Are you considering or currently going through a Separation or Divorce and feeling:
🔵Confused, stressed and overwhelmed - needing clarity to work through your issues, set boundaries, identify triggers, reduce your stress levels, communicate with your former partner and the children?
🔵Want to save money - with a signficiantly cheaper hourly rate, guidance on how to get organised, the documentation and evidence you need, the administration you need to do, and avoid significant and often unnecessary additional legal and associated expenses along the way?
🔵Want to take more control of your own outcomes, reduce conflict, and negotiate more effectively?
🔵Need assistance to understand your financial position and how to improve your chances of achieving
long term financial security?
🔵Need help to consider the terms of your parenting and financial arrangements?
🔵Need to draft a Separation Plan? Regarding the kids, living arrangements, financial terms
🔵Need to sort your parenting arrangements and co-parent more effectively?
🔵Want to regain your strength and recover emotionally, financially, physically after the divorce is finalised?
Save yourself a lot of stress, money and chaos. We want to help you avoid conflict and the legal costs as much as possible! We would love to hear from you. Book a time to discuss how I can help to support and guide you in a less stressful, more emotionally supported and affordable way. I work with individuals, but also work with couples who want to work amicably together.
Hello, I am Susan Crain and I have been working as a
Separation & Divorce Support Counsellor & Coach for over 30 years, with hundreds of clients across Australia and New Zealand.
I have used my law degree, majoring in psychology and coaching to provide my clients with the emotional support, but also the guidance and strategies they need to be clear and confident about the process, personally safe, support their children and effectively co-parent, protect their finances and get very well prepared to resolve their family law matters and thrive beyond divorce.
After decades of seeing the devastating effects of poorly handled family law matters, the flow on effect to the children, safety concerns and the financial impact of huge expenses, I set up this business as a Social Enterprise. All our profits are returned to the business to increase the availability of really effective, personalised and affordable resources and services to people going through a separation - to better guide you through each stage of this often emotional, legal and logistically complex process - offering what my kind clients have said feels like
"a huge hug from beginning to end."
Ways we can help to get you through your separation and divorce?
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT & COUNSELLING
DRAFTING SEPARATION & PARENTING PLANS
PARENTING & CO-PARENTING SUPPORT
UNDERSTAND YOUR LEGAL & FINANCIAL OPTIONS
KEY COMMUNICATION & negotiation STRATEGIES
PREPARING FOR MEDIATION OR FDR
SUPPORT TO LIAISE WITH YOUR FORMER PARTNER
DOMESTIC & FAMILY VIOLENCE SUPPORT
IDENTIFYING/ Collating KEY DOCUMENTS & EVIDENCE
1:1 COACHING & COUNSELLING
SERVICES
THE DIVORCE
PLANNER
PARENTING PLAN
PROGRAM
SAFE HORIZON
SECURITY SUPPORT & THE AUSTRALIAN SAFETY PLANNER
PODCAST
SERIES
CO-PARENTING SUPPORT
YOUR WEBINAR LIBRARY & RESOURCES
Medically Induced Menopause
There is a dire need in Australia to find more effective ways to support women experiencing medically induced menopause due to cancer treatments, preventative surgeries or other medically required procedures or medication, which can induce menopause. Often, this challenge presents itself when women are working and caring for their family( including parents). If not appropriately supported, this results in serious physical, emotional and mental health issues.
Inherited Cancers Australia's recent report revealed more than three-quarters (76%) of respondents who had undergone tube or ovary removal for cancer treatment or risk reduction had not accessed a menopause specialist, with many unaware that such support was even available.
Medically induced menopause can be caused by:
Surgical removal of the ovaries (known as oophorectomy)
Chemotherapy
Radiation therapy to the pelvic area
Medical menopause where hormone production is shut down with medicine, such as Lupron or Zoladex.
Removal of the uterus (hysterectomy)may speed up the decline of the ovaries leading to menopause.
Common symptoms include hot flushes (day and night) painful sexual intercourse, brain fog, mood changes (including irritability), and urine symptoms. Women are at increased long-term health risks, such as osteoporosis and cardio/cerebrovascular disease ie heart attacks and strokes.
Menopause support
We have a team of menopause coaches working with us, who can help to provide you with the guidance you need to get through this challenging time - Dr Sharmila Kumar, Claire Kelly and Katie Young. They can assist you with one-on-one consultations in person or via Zoom. They all champion healthy lifestyle choices in the Peri/menopause transition which when personalised (with knowledge) and actioned is the best way to age healthily. Don't we all want that !
About Sharmila
Sharmila is the director of Menopause, My Way. Her approach to peri/menopause is holistic, including nonhormonal ( lifestyle) and hormonal methods of management.
Dr Kumar is an AMS doctor (Australasian Menopause Doctor) and licensed Champion of Menopause Experts Group (UK). One of her passions is to increase community awareness of peri/menopause.
To Book: Dr Sharmila Kumar is available for menopause consultations at Waitara Family Medical Practice, 1/75-77 Pacific Highway, Waitara NSW, 2077. Please book online or by ringing (02)80381070.Consultations can be either face to face or via telehealth.
email :[email protected] and follow her on FB: Menopause, My Way
About Claire
Claire is a very well regarded and highly skilled nurse consultant, educator, and health and wellness coach, specialising in oncology/cancer and peri/menopause wellness. She has an extensive background in practice, education and training, program development and care coordination - working with women, workplaces and health professionals to support them with their unique menopause, cancer and midlife health needs.
Claire also works as a menopause trainer for various organisations including Corporate Wellness Solutions.
To arrange a booking please refer to: www.middlehealth.com.au
About Katie
Katie is a certified menopause support coach and founder of The Mid Shift, who can be booked for face to face or online coaching support. With a background in psychology, mental health, pharmaceuticals and crisis support, Katie offers specialised one-on-one, or small group support for her clients to assist with their holistic wellness during their midlife.
To arrange a booking please refer to:www.midshift.com
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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. For your convenience, all our counselling or coaching 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 email us to see if we can accommodate an alternate time for you: [email protected]
If you live in Brisbane or the Gold Coast, Queensland, we are available for face to face consultations. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to arrange an in person appointment.
Webinars - how they are received, transcripts and worksheets
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