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
Post Separation Abuse
In many cases of post separation abuse, victims report there had been very few signs, if any, of abusive behaviour and/or coercive control throughout the relationship until the decision was made to separate. This is particularly true when the victim was the one who elected to leave.
Making the decision to separate or divorce is extremely difficult, especially if children are involved, but the emotional and physical consequences of then having to face post separation abuse can be highly traumatic. The abuse is often largely about coercive control, financial abuse, IT abuse and other methods used to assert power over the victim and their family. It is not uncommon for an ex to disregard the children’s needs such as missing important school deadlines, homework or social commitments simply to cause grief and psychological pressure for the other parent.
Often victims report feeling:
- Traumatised to make a decision.
- Mistrusting and insecure of themselves and others around them.
- Questioning their decision and sanity.
- Heartbroken and scared for their children with whom they share with their ex.
- Fearful of how far their former partner will go and their next move.
- Overwhelmed by negativity and unable to see the good in the things.
- Disbelieved by many about the behaviour of the abuser.
- Emotionally and financially confused and depleted.
- Stressed, anxious and often depressed.
When looking at child contact, the safety of the children should always be the primary concern. Keep in mind that when looking at the risk that a perpetrator poses to their victim, past behaviour is the most reliable indicator of future behaviour. When considering the risk of post-separation abuse, particular care should be taken where perpetrators have a history of coercive controlling behaviour.
If you are concerned that you are experiencing post separation abuse, please reach out to one of our professional counsellors or coaches who understand the nature of this abuse and can assist you with strategies to manage dealing with high conflict and/or abusive relationships.
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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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