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. On deadline? Say so in the subject line and she will get back to you within the hour.
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. The fear of who a spouse will become once you file, and how preparation answers it. 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 and writing
- 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
- Divorce Coaching: A Tool for De-Escalating Family Conflict — Journal of The Missouri Bar (forthcoming, 2026)
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.