Separation and Divorce Coach Training

Join our next cohort starting September 1, 2026.

This intensive 70 hour online course as of September 1, 2026, will be a hybrid of self-paced online training and interactive Zoom sessions. It teaches not only the fundamentals of separation and divorce coaching but provides valuable learning for parenting coordinators(PC), mediators or other professionals working with people contemplating separation, experiencing separation or post separation.

Separation and divorce coaches work within the collaborative process, mediation and litigation. Coaches can work with one party, both parties and with self-represented and represented clients.

While coaching borrows many skills from mediation and PC work, it is very different. Coaches are not neutrals, they dig deeper and provide support in different ways which is the reason we created this program. Attendees can use this training to fulfill continuing education requirements in different practice areas, start their separation and divorce coaching journey or complete the suggested requirements of practicing as a coach.

This program includes training around knowing your client, normal responses to separation and divorce, drivers of conflict, personality and mental health, trauma and grief and neurodiversity. It includes training around co-parenting including how address gatekeeping and resist/refuse dynamics. It includes additional screening training for financial abuse, coercive control and capacity. It includes training around how to frame financial discussions and help clients identify their financial goals while understanding the future impact of their decisions. It includes training around accountability, goal setting, action planning and powerful questioning.

We also talk about ethics, boundaries, communicating with other professionals, obstacles, and required training for divorce coaches. We have set Standards of Practice and require attendees to commit to them in their practice.

This training is for:

• Mediators who want to learn how to use their knowledge to expand their services into coaching.
• Parenting Coordinators who want to learn how to perform the education, conflict management and communication aspects of PC without a court order, arbitration award or separation agreement.
• Collaborative family law professionals who want to learn how a coach or how to better support their clients through this process.
• Family law lawyers who want to learn how to better support clients through non-legal issues through the use of coaching.
• Real estate and financial professionals who want to learn how to better support clients experiencing separation or divorce.

For more information please reach out to Jennifer Donison at jennifer@mychildrenandme.com.

Julie Gill is proud to be a co-founder of the BREAKFORWARD separation and divorce coach training program with Jennifer Donison and Dr. Kim Harris.

We offer this separation & divorce coaching program through Breakforward Divorce Coach Institute (Breakforward.org)