The following is a list of some of the many advantages for attending couples counseling divorce.

• Divorce counseling helps you to cope with the stress caused by divorce and helps you to rebuild your life. Talking openly with a therapist in regards to the negative ways you have been impacted can assist in leading you to having helpful conversations and the best ways to cope.
• Counseling will help you to work better with your attorney. A benefit of attending individual therapy for your divorce is that you will be more clear headed. When you have clear thought your able to make much better decisions in regards to your life, your children, etc. Lawyers can’t give you advice like a therapist can. Therapist are not able to provide legal advice. They can and do work well together and can make a very supportive team.
• Counseling can help you and your children to cope with the family system that is changing. Family therapy is a great tool to utilize. It creates a safe environment for you and your children. Here they can process the parents breakup. They can ask questions that otherwise they may not ask. This is due to fear of upsetting an already emotional parent. Many children and teenagers have feelings of anxiety, fear, resentment and often can feel responsible for the divorce. It is very important that you try to minimize the damage they are exposed to between yourself and your ex. Family therapy guides your family through the healing process and encourages members to rebuild. Family therapy is also very helpful in regards to co-parenting.
• Counseling assists in helping you and your ex to be sure about the finalizing of the divorce. For many divorcing couples, one spouse wants the divorce more than the other. For the sake of the children it may be worth it to you both to explore what it looks like to save the marriage.
• Discernment Counseling is a therapy approach that has one goal. That is to take a final glance or look at the marriage. Take a look before you call it quits. Discernment counseling is different from regular marital counseling in various ways: 1) the goal isn’t to solve the problems in the marriage, but rather it seeks to figure out if the issues and problems can be fixed and solved; 2) the process is mainly made up of individual conversations with each of the spouses 3) It is always for the most part short term.