The following professionals provide advice and support to those going through divorce and family breakdown:
Coaching
- Kirsten Gronning – The Divorce Coach
There's been a growth over recent years in divorce coaches and divorce counsellors. Woolley & Co invited The Divorce Coach Kirsten Gronning to explain the role of the coach and how they work alongside lawyers. (more ...)
- Jackie Walker - The Divorce Coach
For help and support with the emotional and practical side of divorce and separation (more ...)
- Annie O'Neil - New Horizons Divorce Coaching
A qualified personal coach dedicated to helping you reinvent your life after divorce (more ...)
Read Annie’s article 10 Secrets of a Successful Divorce
- Elizabeth Gates - The Lonely Furrow
A qualified life coach Elizabeth uses creative writing with clients to improve their self-confidence and esteem by providing them with better communication skills and a capacity for creative problem-solving. (more ...)
- Naomi Richards - The Kids Coach
Believed to be the only Life Coach in the UK that works with children as young as six years old. Visit The Kids Coach website.
Counselling Services
Counselling Works offer face to face and telephone counselling support for anyone struggling with the emotional side of a relationship breakdown.
Ending a relationship which you hoped would last forever is tough. The Counsellors at Counselling Works help you to confront the unimaginable. All counsellors are independently accredited by BACP. Phones are answered by people, not machines, 24 hours a day. Telephone counselling sessions can be arranged quickly.
Contact Counselling Works via their website. Take Counselling Works brief test here to see if you would benefit from the support of a counsellor.
Financial Advice for Expats
Blackden Financial is a Swiss based firm of independent financial advisors, specialising in advising non UK resident clients on all aspects of savings, investment and pensions as well as providing mortgage and life insurance advice.
All Blackden advisors have English as their mother tongue (Brits living abroad will realise important this point is). When it comes to portfolio management and construction, as independent financial advisors not only are Blackden able to spread the risk of your portfolio geographically and across the asset classes but they also believe in diversifying your exposure across different fund management groups.
Contact Blackden Financial via their website - www.blackdenfinancial.com, or e mail info@blackdenfinancial.com.
McKenzie Friends
If you decide to represent yourself in Court (ie you choose not to have the help of a solicitor or barrister) you may be accompanied by someone to assist you and this person is called a McKenzie Friend, named after the case which established the principles in 1970.
HR Family Breakdown provides the services of a McKenzie friend in cases concerning child contact and residence. Their service includes discussing how the case should be handled, helping complete all the necessary forms and submitting them to court, assisting with negotiations and attending court hearings. This can be useful if you feel you cannot afford the help of a solicitor.
Mediation
Human Law Mediation
Mediation can be used to discuss and negotiate issues around finances and child contact and residence. For more details visit the Human Law Mediation website
Legal Aid
Child Support Agency (CSA)
Dealing with the Child Support Agency can be difficult. NACSA is an organisation dedicated to helping all parents, family and friends who experience difficulties with the CSA. Their remit is to ensure that the Child Support legislation is applied correctly and to educate the public about the administrations and powers of the Child Support Agency.
With the extensive powers that CSA have to pursue maintenance and arrears, it is vitally important that assessments are correctly calculated. NACSA offer an assessment checking service to ensure that your assessments both past and present are correct. Please visit the website www.nacsa.co.uk for details.
Wills
Inheritance Act Claim and Will Dispute solicitors advise on disputes over wills, for example claims where a party considers that they should have benefitted under a will but have been left out, claims against executors and generally upon any dispute involving wills and the administration of estates. Contact Robert Weston on 01386 712101 and mention you found his details on the Woolley & Co website.
Support in Other Legal Areas