Hypnotherapist, Licensed RTT Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotist, Duke Certified Health Coach, Spiritual Counselor
I work with clients going through divorce or considering divorce and help them through the emotional space that divorce brings. With tools like RTT, hypnosis, emotion code, etc., we can find what brings you the most relief and support for your sessions. Sometimes the work also helps couples restore their marriage or their way of relating to their ex spouse.
I have a unique specialty in working with couples, families, and children of divorce. I can help create a co-parenting plan, work with adjustments to a new normal, work through grief & loss. I work with the couple either together or separately, the children together or separately, and can also conduct group therapy for the entire family.
I am a psychologist, marriage family therapist, bioenergetic analyst, and psychoanalyst with more than 30 years of clinical experience in treating adolescents, adults, and marital couples. I am skilled in helping a person to feel understood and related to in a new and helpful way.
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Psychologist, California Licensed Psychologist (License# PSY17495)
Successful negotiation of divorce is a frequent focus for my clients. Sometimes they will begin therapy while they are still married but are contemplating exiting the marriage, and sometimes clients present while divorcing or post divorce. There are a host of dimensions to this work. Often considering parenting and co-parenting is needed. Sometimes there are custody issues to work out. There could be a need for assistance in re-unifying or healing a relationship between a parent and child. Then for the parents there tend to become issues related to resuming dating, figuring out how to negotiate a new relationship in the context of parenting, and many other concerns. These are areas that I have experience with, both professionally, and personally. As a therapist I have worked clinically with countless people going through divorce, parents and children included. I also worked as a court employed child custody evaluator, in which I addressed high conflict divorcing couples. Personally, though, my life has been impacted by divorce both when I was child of divorcing parents and then as an adult when I went though my own divorce while co-parenting two young girls. I have come to realize that divorce is among the biggest stressors people can go through, and that helping the parents to divorce thoughtfully can have huge benefits to all parties involved. In my clinical work with divorce I use a variety of approaches. Sometimes I serve as a coach to one of the divorcing parties. Sometimes I work with the two parties to uncouple consciously. Such work with both parties can involve mediation, but so too can it involve ongoing coaching and support.
Divorce is always a devastating experience - regardless of how it comes about - because it involves the breaking of promises and the dashing of dreams - along with an entire cargo of unforeseen problems! It involves emotional highs and lows for both parties as well as for the children involved. A sensitive therapy experience can help calm the waters for all parties and bring stability to a fractured family.
I have been a psychologist, marriage therapist and coach for many years and truly enjoy helping people find ways to overcome life challenges in their personal life, workplace, and relationships. I see myself as a teacher as well as a therapist.
Separation or divorce can be extremely overwhelming. How can you separate intertwined lives without dragging kids/ family members into drama? How can you say goodbye and prepare for a life of co-parenting? How can you separate as amicably as possible to reduce wasted legal fees in a high conflict divorcee? Working with an trusted provider to manage emotions, support children, and grieve the loss of of a relationship can help you "consciously uncouple" whether that is pre or post divorce. Set up a free consultation today to see if Gretchen can help you meet your unique needs.