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The Divorce Process
Sometimes saving a marriage may not be possible. Going through a divorce is painful, scary and isolating.
Having someone to support and help you process the emotions and numerous adjustments you will experience between the end of a marriage and rebuilding a new life can be helpful. Counseling and/or psychotherapy while transitioning through the emotional divorce phase, physical divorce phase, legal and economic divorce phase and the acceptance/re-establishment phase is all part of the grieving and rebuilding process.
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Whether you are the leaver or levee, here are some of the adjustments I can help you with during the divorce and post divorce process:
- Grieving the loss of the marriage
- Grieving the former social network
- Telling relatives and friends the change in marital status
- Finalizing the legal divorce process
- Finding and establishing a new residence
- Exploring new interests
- Possibly changing jobs
- Personal Identity – transition to being single
- Reflecting (on self, the marriage and the end of the marriage)
- Helping children understand and accept the divorce
- Seeking a new love interest (dating and seeking a new romantic partner)
- Developing a new social support system
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Santa Cruz Family Therapy
1840 41st Ave, Suite 102 – Box 281
Capitola, CA 95010