Helping Your Clients Cope with Divorce and Separation
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When clients are navigating separation or divorce, the stress can reach far beyond the two adults ending a relationship. Children may be moving between homes, reacting to parental conflict, struggling with loyalty binds, adjusting to new routines, or absorbing the emotional fallout of a family system in distress. Legal decisions, parenting schedules, financial strain, co-parenting conflict, blended family transitions, and unresolved grief can all show up in therapy. Without a clear understanding of divorce-related dynamics, clinicians can feel pulled into crisis management, family conflict, or court-adjacent concerns without a grounded therapeutic framework. In this training, clinicians are oriented to the emotional, relational, ethical, and clinical issues that commonly arise when families experience separation and divorce. The course offers practical guidance for helping adults, children, co-parents, and family systems navigate conflict, communication, parenting transitions, children’s developmental needs, safety concerns, and complex family dynamics with greater clarity and clinical steadiness. Alyse November, Ph.D., LCSW, ACSW, CST, brings extensive experience working with individuals and families navigating divorce-related concerns through her practice, Different Like Me, where she provides counseling across the lifespan for issues connected to divorce, separation, and family transitions. Co-instructor Stephanie Newberg, MEd, MSW, LCSW, brings more than 30 years of clinical experience, with specialized work in high-conflict divorce, co-parenting counseling, divorce mediation, and the impact of divorce on children and families. Together, they integrate clinical, mediation, teaching, and lived experience to help behavioral health professionals better understand the real-world complexities families face during and after divorce. Across this training, Alyse and Stephanie use a continuing case example of a family with children to examine how divorce affects parents, children, co-parents, extended family members, and new family systems. The course reviews functional definitions of divorce and separation, different family configurations, financial and lifestyle changes, parenting plans, child custody schedules, co-parenting challenges, and the developmental impact of divorce on children. The training also addresses more complex clinical issues, including infidelity, personality disorder traits, interpersonal violence, parental alienation, child alignment and loyalty conflicts, blended families, and situations where children resist contact with one parent. Clinicians will also consider ethical boundaries, confidentiality, collaboration with attorneys or other professionals when appropriate, avoiding legal advice, and managing countertransference in emotionally intense divorce-related cases. Identify all the aspects of what the divorce process entails Identify & assess how the specific components of divorce (such as single parenting, and communication with ex-partner) affect the whole family system Explain how co-parent counseling and reunification therapy are important components of skill-building By the end of this course, clinicians will have a clearer understanding of the divorce and separation process, the stressors adults and children may bring into treatment, and the clinical skills needed to respond with steadiness, appropriate boundaries, and practical support. Behavioral health professionals seeking a grounded, compassionate way to help families through separation, divorce, co-parenting challenges, and family transitions will find this training a useful addition to their clinical work. Enroll now to gain the confidence and competence to guide families through one of life’s most difficult transitions. This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 3 hours of video instruction and a post-test. "Helping Your Clients Cope with Divorce and Separation" is one of three courses that are part of the Clinical Divorce Specialist Certificate program. You can complete individual courses, or enroll in the bundle for the full Certificate program. From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework. This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services. This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation. Course access and completion instructions. Alyse November obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Adelphi University, N.Y., and her PhD in Clinical Sexology from IICS. She is credentialed by the Academy of Certified Social Workers. Alyse is the founder of Different Like Me, a company with a staff of over 30 professionals providing psychotherapy, psychoeducational testing and cognitive rehabilitation. As a licensed clinical social worker, Alyse provides psychotherapy to individuals across the lifespan. A substantial portion of her practice has focused on addressing challenges faced by children, adults, seniors, and families ranging from trauma, narcissistic and borderline family recovery, aging, chronic illness, divorce, trans-care, relationships, parenting, and special needs, end of life issues, dementia, caregiving, educational challenges, anxiety, and depression. Her PhD dissertation focused on the assessment of sexual challenges and dementia. Alyse also created DLMU which is an educational platform that provides seminars for both professional and personal development. Alyse is: Stephanie Newberg is a licensed psychotherapist in FL and PA, working with individuals, couples, and families. She has been in practice for more than 25 years, specializing in family and couples therapy, conflict resolution, grief and loss, parenting support, and the implications of divorce on children and families. In addition, Stephanie is a trained family and divorce mediator/ co-parent counselor and has received intensive training in sand tray play therapy for adolescents and children. Stephanie has led numerous workshops and presentations for adults and adolescents on relationship and communication skills, dealing with the effects of divorce on families, diversity issues, cyberbullying/effects of technology on development, nutrition, and mental health, and conflict resolution skills. In addition, Stephanie has numerous publications and has been on two podcasts. Stephanie is a certified counselor for first responders, trained in neuro-emotional techniques, served as a consultant for the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia, PA, and worked at the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work as an adjunct professor, supervisor, and fieldwork liaison for social work students. The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose. This course consists of 3 continuing education hours of credit. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048. Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations. You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435. This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093. This course qualifies for 180 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements. This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations. You can click on the following links to view our policies:Description
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This course was recorded 03/26/2026
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