Divorce & Separation Therapy for Florida Adults
Divorce & Separation Therapy for Florida Adults
Divorce is one of the most disorienting transitions a person can go through. Even when it's the right decision — even when you wanted it — the loss is real. Identity shifts. Daily life restructures. Relationships change. Financial life reorganizes. Underneath all of it, there's often grief, anger, fear, and uncertainty about what comes next.
The work of moving through separation and divorce is rarely captured by the cultural narrative around it. Grief in divorce is often disenfranchised — treated as less serious than other losses, or as something you should be over faster than you are. What's actually happening is the reconstruction of a life that was, in significant measure, built with another person.
Who This Work Is For
I work with adults across four phases of the divorce and separation experience: considering separation, going through it, adjusting to co-parenting, and rebuilding in the years that follow. The clinical concerns look different across these phases, but the underlying work has a shared shape — understanding what you're experiencing, developing the skills to move through it, and rebuilding the parts of your identity and life that this transition has affected.
You may recognize yourself in some of the following:
- Sitting with ambivalence about the marriage, and needing space to think it through with clinical support
- Grief that feels disproportionate or confusing, even if you initiated the divorce
- Anger, resentment, or lingering bitterness that's hard to move past
- Anxiety about the future — finances, co-parenting, dating, starting over
- Loss of identity or sense of self outside of the relationship
- Difficulty trusting yourself or your judgment
- Relief mixed with guilt, and not knowing how to hold both
- Loneliness, or feeling like no one around you understands what you're going through
- Depression or emotional numbness in the aftermath
The Scope of This Work
This work is individual therapy — focused on you, your experience, and the reconstruction that separation and divorce require. It is not couples counseling, discernment counseling, or marriage counseling. Clients who are working with a couples therapist often benefit from having their own dedicated individual therapy alongside that work, and the two serve different purposes. What happens in individual therapy is entirely about you: what you're experiencing, what you're learning about yourself, what patterns are surfacing, and what you want the next chapter of your life to look like.
How I work
Sessions are structured and skills-based, drawing from CBT, DBT, mindfulness practices, and evidence-based approaches for adjusting to major life transitions. The specific focus depends on where you are — clinical work during the decision phase is different from work during active legal proceedings, which is different from work several years into rebuilding.
The work typically addresses several layers: understanding what you're experiencing and why; developing skills for managing anxiety, grief, anger, and the practical stress of divorce; addressing the patterns that may have contributed to the marriage's difficulties, when relevant; and rebuilding identity, sense of direction, and the parts of your life this transition has affected.
Level of Care
This is outpatient individual therapy at a weekly cadence. It is not crisis intervention, and it is not a substitute for legal counsel, financial planning, or mediation. Clients navigating a complex divorce often benefit from a team that includes those resources, and I can be part of that team.
Insurance and Access
I am in-network with Optum, UnitedHealthcare and affiliated plans (Oscar, Oxford, UMR, Harvard Pilgrim, GEHA, Surest, All Savers, UHCSR), Aetna, and Cigna. Private pay is available. Benefits verification is completed at no cost before your first session.
Serving Clients Across Florida
Sessions are conducted virtually, which means divorce and separation therapy is accessible from anywhere in Florida — including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa, and Jacksonville. For clients in the middle of legal proceedings or navigating co-parenting logistics, virtual sessions also matter practically — therapy that fits between hearings, custody exchanges, and everything else divorce demands is often what makes sustained clinical work possible.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I start therapy while I'm still deciding whether to separate?
Yes. Many clients begin this work during the decision phase — sitting with ambivalence, weighing what leaving would cost against what staying costs, or trying to distinguish reactive impulse from actual decision. That's legitimate clinical work in its own right.
Do you do couples therapy or work with my ex-spouse?
No. This practice is focused on individual therapy — the work is about you and your experience, not about the marriage as an entity or about mediating between partners.
What if I'm in a high-conflict divorce?
High-conflict divorces have distinct clinical dynamics — managing dysregulated communication with an ex, protecting your own regulation, and often navigating co-parenting with someone whose behavior is destabilizing. That work is within the scope of this practice.
Can you help years after the divorce is finalized?
Yes. The longer arc of rebuilding — sense of self, dating, remarriage, blended families, identity work that surfaces later — is often when therapy is most valuable. Divorce isn't a single event; it's a multi-year process.
Scheduling a Consultation
If separation, divorce, or the aftermath has brought you here, a free 15-minute consultation is the most reliable way to know whether this practice is the right fit.
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