Cherie Morris, J.D., CDC® Certified Divorce Coach, instructor in the CDC® High Conflict Divorce Coaching certification program, founder of Dear Divorce Coach, and author of Should I Stay or Should I Go? and Putting Kids First in Divorce.
Cherie is available for expert commentary, interviews and guest essays on divorce, co-parenting and conflict. Reporters and producers can reach her at cherie@deardivorcecoach.com. She responds quickly to working press.
Ideas she is known for
Cherie’s commentary rests on frameworks she developed across nearly a decade of coaching individuals, couples and co-parents:
- “Is this a today decision or a forever decision?” The discernment question for couples deciding whether to divorce.
- “It is not the divorce that harms children. It is the conflict around it.” The principle behind her whole-family approach.
- The conflict pivot. Moving from reacting to responding, pairing practical communication tools with somatic, body-based regulation.
- A parenting schedule is not a fairness ledger, it is a conflict-reduction instrument. Her reframe on custody schedules.
Where she can take a story
Gray divorce and deciding to divorce at or after 50. High-conflict co-parenting and communication with a difficult ex. The couple’s decision, whether to stay or go, made together rather than alone. Custody schedules and parenting plans. What divorce professionals get wrong about conflict. As a former attorney, she speaks fluently to the seam between the legal machinery and the human being inside it.
A leader among her peers
Cherie does not only practice this work. She teaches it and convenes it.
- She trains other coaches as an instructor in the CDC® High Conflict Divorce Coaching certification program.
- She hosts Between Sessions, the national peer community for divorce professionals — attorneys, mediators, coaches, therapists and financial professionals — founded by Karen Bonnell, author of The Co-Parenting Handbook, who entrusted it to Cherie on her retirement.
- Fellow professionals consult her on their hardest high-conflict cases.
“Cherie brought depth, experience and vision to Friday Consult Group; she imagined how the time between sessions with trusted colleagues could be developed and expanded. Thankful for her energy to carry on, develop the idea and bring co-parent coaching to a wider cohort!”
— Karen S. Bonnell, founder of Between Sessions and author of The Co-Parenting Handbook
Selected appearances
- Regulate Before You Respond: Somatic Strategies for High-Conflict Co-Parenting — Coparenting Beyond Conflict podcast
- The Tracey Coates Show
- Divorce Exposed
- Divorced Girl Smiling podcast — nine episodes as a recurring guest
- Partner Spotlight, Greet Mercer Island magazine
A fuller list lives on the Speaking page.
Fast facts
J.D., University of Iowa College of Law · B.A., Duke University · former attorney · CDC® Certified Divorce Coach with the High Conflict specialty · trained mediator · author of two books · writes the weekly Dear Divorce Coach advice column · divorced mom of four in a blended family, and a co-parent herself · works with clients nationwide, virtually
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Cherie Morris, J.D., is a CDC® Certified Divorce Coach and an instructor in the CDC® High Conflict Divorce Coaching certification program who has spent nearly a decade helping individuals, couples and co-parents navigate separation, divorce and co-parenting — from the “should I stay or go?” decision (including gray divorce at or after 50) through high-conflict co-parenting. She is the author of two books.
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Photographs by Chelsea Moudry. Free to use with press coverage of Cherie or Dear Divorce Coach.