Betsy Ross
betsyross18@gmail.com
Profession(s) and Services
Collaborative Divorce Coaching, Co-parent Relationship Coaching, Divorce Transition Coaching, Post-divorce Planning, Parenting Plan Updates and modifications, Divorce and Co-parent Mediation, Business Coaching.
I help individuals and families to select and move through their divorce process successfully, create realistic parenting plans, decrease conflict, and teach problem solving skills. I assist clients before the divorce, during the divorce, and after the divorce. I work individually as a divorce transition and relationship coach or as part of a collaborative team (with divorcing clients, attorneys, and financial professionals) as a divorce coach and as a divorce and family mediator.. I also work with parents and individuals around co-parenting issues, communication skills, decision making, and stress and time management. I work with clients to address issues such as: Which divorce process will best suit you and your family's needs, back to work readiness, creating a new 'home life' and community for individuals and families, dealing with feelings of isolation, loneliness, worries about the future, dating beyond divorce. In addition, I teach collaborative divorce coaching at Boston College from time to time. I am the chair of the MCLC Introductory Training in Collaborative Law and serve as faculty. I also work as a divorce Mediator. Collaborative Divorce Coaching, Mediation, Group Psychotherapy, Individual, and couples, psychotherapy Hourly or by project, Fees for professional consultation arranged on an individual case basis
Counties Served
I am trained as a collaborative coach, family and divorce mediator, certified group psychotherapist, and clinical psychotherapist. I also work with co-parents to help them improve communications and establish/maintain a productive co-parenting relationship. MSW received from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work. Certified Group Psychotherapist, advanced training in Modern Psychoanalysis
My expertise in collaborative divorce and co-parent relationship coaching, mediation, couples/family therapy, and group dynamics helps me to assist clients in emotionally managing and supporting the complex decision making (around financial, parenting and other family issues) which is always a part of any divorce process. I help clients successfully navigate the transition from spouses to exes to business partners in co-parenting healthy and happy children.
Clients can learn to: establish a productive co-parenting relationship, improve problem solving skills, strengthen communication skills, prepare to return to work, learn to parent solo, create community for themselves and their families, and plan for a happier life, going forward.
Professional Memberships: Mass Collaborative Law Council, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy, Massachusetts Council of Family Mediators, National Association of Social Workers, "The Art of Holding More Effective Collaborative Meetings" which appeared in the Collaborative Law Journal in 2008. Frequent blogger on divorce and marriage related issues at The Huffington Post Divorce Blog, The Patch, and at BetsyRossCoaching.com and at DivorceMediationStrategies.com