Meet Cherie Morris, J.D. — Certified Divorce Coach

Cherie Morris, J.D., is a full-time CDC® Certified Divorce Coach who has spent almost a decade helping individuals, couples, and families transform conflict before, during, and after divorce. A lawyer by training, she is the author of two books on divorce — “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” and “Putting Kids First in Divorce” — and writes the weekly Dear Divorce Coach advice column.

Cherie’s legal training makes her approach to issues logical and reasoned. She began exploring alternate dispute resolution and mediation in order to understand how to change the nature of conflict and improve dynamics when conflict occurs, in litigation and otherwise, when a solely rational approach may not succeed. Her approach to conflict now is that rational thinking must be accompanied by the ability to empathize and compromise in order to achieve successful results.

A divorce agreement is a very important contract that requires each party to recognize, and think about, the long-term consequences of taking specific action now. She believes it is very important to understand and analyze each decision in divorce carefully, and rationally, but with a strong consideration for your best self and a relationship that may continue with a former spouse well into the future, especially when there are children involved.

There are many professionals who may serve an individual in divorce, but a divorce coach may be the only one acting as an objective thinking partner who will help you decide how to frame important decisions that will serve you and your children now and well into the future.

Cherie is convinced that the best interests of children are served in divorce when the adults act as their best selves, inspiring their children to see that flexibility and resilience are important life-long qualities for all of us. This applies whether you are contemplating, in the midst of, or have post-divorce complications.

Cherie works with clients nationwide at every stage — from the “should I stay or should I go” question (including the growing number of people navigating gray divorce at or after 50) to high-conflict co-parenting long after the agreement is signed. She also hosts Between Sessions, a national community for the professionals who guide families through divorce, and her writing and interviews have appeared in HuffPost and on podcasts across the divorce world.

Cherie has four children of her own and is part of a blended family. She is delighted to include her partner’s daughter and say they have a combined five. Life is always interesting and challenging.

And because clients often ask: yes, there is life on the other side. Cherie and her partner are happy proof that divorce can be the start of a next chapter — not the end of the story. Navigating blended family is an important part of the work Cherie does now too.

In addition to her work with Dear Divorce Coach, Cherie offers coaching sessions regarding divorce and other life transitions for individuals and couples.