The six-credit course
Working depth on each of the four phases, and how to read the assessment that measures them. Six CE credits.
The free hour gives you the map. This is the terrain.
Each phase covered properly — what it looks like in a client, what moves it, what makes it worse, and what not to attempt yet. Plus the part that changes practice most: reading the Fisher Divorce Adjustment Scale, so you can measure where a client actually is instead of estimating.
Why measurement changes the work
Most divorce recovery is delivered on impression. The client seems better. They are talking about their ex less. It feels like progress.
Our own data says that impression is the least reliable signal available. Of the six areas the assessment measures, mental disentanglement is the one that improves without any intervention at all — it climbs about twenty points over six years on its own. Anger and trust do not move.
A client who rarely thinks about their ex is telling you the truth. It does not mean they have recovered.
Learning to read the six subscales separately is what lets you see that. It is the single most practical thing in this course.
What the course covers
PART ONE
Thinking — disentangling
The mind stays occupied long after the relationship ends. Clients loop on questions that have no answer, and answering them changes nothing because a new answer restarts the loop.
- Naming unanswerable questions as the intervention
- Why clear thinking is necessary and not sufficient
- Reading the disentanglement subscale, and what a score below the twentieth percentile indicates
- What not to attempt while a client is still here
PART TWO
Feelings — grief and anger
Grief and anger belong to one phase because they are two expressions of the same loss. The distinction that matters is between feeling an emotion and processing it.
- Why daily crying is not the same as moving through grief
- Anger turned outward and anger turned inward
- Normalising anger as a stage rather than a character failing
- Reading the grief and anger subscales, and why they are the two areas that do not improve with time
PART THREE
Identity — building the next version
Clients arrive wanting to get back to who they were. That person was shaped by the relationship and is not available to return to.
- Designing the next version rather than recovering a previous one
- Externalising the inner critic so a client can answer it
- The self-worth gap: why worth when alone and worth around others differ, and what each pattern points to
- Why this phase runs longer than the others and what that means for expectations
PART FOUR
Relationships — rebuilding trust
Frequently mistaken for dating. It is broader, and it starts earlier: divorce damages trust across every relationship a person has.
- Why naming this reduces pressure for clients who assume it means dating
- The question that separates wanting a partner from being ready for one
- Codependency patterns and practical alternatives
- Reading the social trust subscale, and why it is the last thing to return
PART FIVE
Reading the assessment
The Fisher Divorce Adjustment Scale reports six subscales and an overall score out of 500. This part teaches you to interpret them.
- What each subscale measures and how it maps to the four phases
- Points versus percentiles, and why change is measured in one and reported in the other
- Reading the gap between subscales, not just the total
- Where the instrument is weaker, and which readings to trust less
- Using a second assessment to show a client movement they cannot feel
PART SIX
Locating a client against the population
A score means little on its own. Against comparable people it becomes clinically useful.
- Reference norms by stage in the process and by who ended the relationship
- Why a client who was left and scores in the bottom third is typical, not alarming
- Using norms to normalise rather than to diagnose
- What the data says about timelines, and what it does not
By the end you will be able to
- Place a divorcing client within the four phases from presentation and from assessment scores
- Interpret all six subscales of the Fisher Divorce Adjustment Scale and explain them to a client
- Distinguish improvement that reflects real recovery from improvement that reflects the passage of time
- Identify the self-worth gap and describe what each pattern suggests
- Locate a client's score against reference norms for people in the same situation
- Sequence intervention so that work is not attempted before the phase before it has moved
- Recognise when a client's stated readiness for a new relationship is not supported by their scores
Who it is for
Professionals who already see divorcing clients and want to work with them deliberately rather than by instinct.
Licensed therapists, counsellors and social workers take it for the clinical depth and the six credits. Divorce coaches take it because the assessment gives them something objective to work from.
Prerequisite
None. The free hour is a useful orientation but it is not required — this course covers the framework from the beginning.
Not sure yet? The free hour covers the framework at a high level and costs nothing. Most people who take this course started there.
Continuing education credit
Licensed professionals earn six CE credits. Eligibility is currently pending.
Unlicensed professionals take the same course and receive a certificate of completion without the credit.
Common questions
Do I need the free training first?
No. It helps as orientation, but this course covers the framework from the start.
Do I get access to the assessment?
You learn to read and interpret it, and you can refer clients to it. Running it under your own name is a separate arrangement.
Is this a prerequisite for the twelve-credit course?
Yes. The twelve-credit course builds directly on this one.
Is it a prerequisite for becoming a facilitator?
No. The facilitator path is separate and covers the framework within its own training.
How long does it take?
Six credit hours of material. Most people work through it across a few sittings.
$397
Six CE credits
Stop estimating where your clients are.
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