Divorce Therapy in Salt Lake City

Divorce counseling is therapy focused on the emotional, relational, and practical skills you need before, during, and after a separation. I help you reduce overwhelm, make clearer decisions, process grief, and rebuild your sense of self so you can move forward with steadier footing.

Yes. We’ll work through decision fatigue and confusion, explore alternatives, build confidence, and strengthen emotional resilience—so whatever you choose, you’ll be choosing from clarity rather than panic

During separation, we’ll focus on calming reactivity, setting healthy boundaries, communicating more effectively, and organizing next steps so conflict goes down and stability goes up. If children are involved, we’ll prioritize skills that protect them from adult conflict.

Post-divorce work centers on adjusting to single life, releasing emotional baggage, preparing for future relationships, and rebuilding self-confidence. We’ll also address co-parenting dynamics and routines that make your life simpler and more consistent.

I help you reduce escalations, improve communication, and create child-focused routines. You’ll learn practical tools (e.g., brief written communication, boundary scripts, problem-solving steps) that lower conflict and protect your bandwidth.

We’ll make space for the whole range of reactions and pace the work so you don’t feel flooded. Expect a blend of nervous-system regulation, thought/behavior tools, and trauma-informed practices so you can function while you heal. (I have focused trauma training and experience across domestic-violence settings and hospitals.)

No. I don’t provide legal advice or choose for you. My role is to help you think clearly, regulate emotions, and communicate effectively—so you can collaborate with attorneys and make values-aligned decisions.

AFCC stands for the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts — an organization that sets best-practice standards for professionals working with families navigating divorce and the court system. An AFCC-informed therapist understands how the legal and therapeutic worlds intersect: I speak the language of family law, can work alongside attorneys and custody evaluators, and know how to provide support that holds up in court contexts.

I'm an AFCC member with direct experience in high-conflict divorce, co-parenting disputes, and court-involved cases. If your situation involves children, custody, or an

A divorce coach helps with logistics and decision-making, like organizing next steps, budgeting, or preparing for negotiations, but coaching isn't a licensed mental health service. As an LCSW, I provide therapy: clinical treatment for the grief, anxiety, and relational patterns divorce brings up, alongside the AFCC and high-conflict experience that lets me also help with co-parenting and court-adjacent stress. If you need both practical planning and emotional support, therapy covers more ground.

There's no one right way to do it, but the process usually goes better when you have support for both the practical and emotional sides at once. That means naming what you're actually feeling instead of pushing it down, building a support network you can lean on, setting boundaries that protect your energy, and giving yourself permission to grieve even if the divorce is what you wanted. In session, I help you build these skills in a structured way so the hard days don't derail you completely.

Divorce recovery counseling is therapy focused specifically on the divorce process rather than general mental health support. It means I'm not starting from scratch each session. I already understand the terrain: decision fatigue before you've decided anything, the specific grief of a relationship ending, co-parenting logistics, and rebuilding a sense of self afterward. Regular therapy can absolutely help with divorce too, but divorce-focused counseling gets you there faster because the framework is already built around what you're going through.