Jody Willson Divorce Consulting 

From Loss, to Liberation: High-Conflict Divorce Strategies

If you're facing a divorce or custody battle with a high-conflict person, you deserve smart strategies and support in navigating the legal process, managing your ex, advocating for yourself and your children, and achieving the best outcome.

Jody Willson provides confidential personal divorce coaching, litigation expert services, mediation, and parenting coordination (PC) – bridging the gap between the family law system and the practical, expert assistance you need through this chapter of life.

High-Conflict Divorce Services

Proactive, professional guidance to help you act from your head, while protecting your heart.

Divorce Coaching

Trauma-informed personal coaching for individuals dealing with a high-conflict or personality-disordered partner, ex-partner, difficult attorney, or other quasi-legal professionals.

  • Feel confident in the face of trauma-inducing, high-conflict, high-stakes opposition

  • Clear away the “noise” to stay focused on critical issues and make sound decisions

  • Learn "soft skills" and strategies to skillfully navigate the personal side of a relationship split with grace and resilience

  • Break down the complex and intimidating legal system into clear and approachable steps

  • Dispel fear of the unknown and understand what’s happening in your case – and what comes next

  • Get the most from your legal representation with experienced guidance for high-conflict, high-stakes opposition and handling lawyers with poor “deskside manner”

  • Protect yourself and support your children through disheartening situations

  • Achieve the healthiest, most liberating legal outcome for yourself and your family

Legal Expertise

Non-testifying expert advising behind the scenes as part of a litigation team.

  • Expert direction for your lawyer in negotiating unique but common patterns seen in high-conflict opposition

  • Proactive assistance with pinpointing and gathering key evidence and preparing you for testimony at depositions, hearings, and trial

  • Tactical techniques for ensuring your communications with all parties remain clear and credible

  • Assistance in developing a calm, self-assured headspace for psychological evaluations, meetings with custody evaluators, guardians ad litem, and family court services

Expert witness testimony regarding coercive control and post-separation abuse, and its impact on families.

  • Evaluation of family violence dynamics, coercive control, and post-separation abuse based on provided evidence, witness testimony, and expert knowledge

  • Comprehensive report preparation, detailing the nature and severity of abuse in a manner that's easily understood by non-experts

  • Analyzing the impacts of coercive control and post-separation abuse on all family members, including psychological, emotional, physical, and social consequences

  • Providing expert testimony in family court regarding child custody and visitation matters in support of a child-centered outcome

Parenting coordination (PC) for high-conflict co-parenting and parallel parenting.

  • Specialized guidance, tailored intervention techniques, and structured frameworks to minimize conflict, streamline communication, and establish peace in high-conflict co-parenting situations

  • Recommendations for fair and beneficial co-parenting strategies that prioritize the well-being and emotional health of the child(ren)

  • Expertise in identifying potential areas of contention and proactively suggesting solutions to minimize future disputes

Co-parenting mediation for resolving complex parenting transitions.

  • Seasoned, skillful family law expertise through the lens of mental health to help resolve co-parenting disputes through mediated mutual agreements

  • Family law mediation that strives for detailed, enforceable, and thoughtfully-crafted resolutions to emotionally-laden joint parenting issues

  • Approachable and thorough child-centric parenting plans, backed by extensive expertise in helping families craft fair, practical agreements

Strategic Solutions and Meaningful Support

Going through a high-conflict divorce can be shocking, disorienting, emotionally draining, and costly. For most people, divorce is their first encounter with an intimidating legal system, and their introduction to it comes at the most stressful time of their lives.

My goal is to share with you insider knowledge, potential perspectives and options you may have overlooked, and pointers for costly pitfalls to avoid and methods to adopt – providing  you with calm confidence and the best chance of success. 

Reach out today to discuss how I can help.

Jody’s Impact

  • “Her ability to provide a confidential and caring environment fosters a safe space for victims of domestic violence to feel comfortable opening up and providing pertinent information. Survivors, both male and female, have found protection, hope, and guidance from Ms. Willson’s expertise. We are seeing a growing body of children, domestic violence victims, and struggling court professionals who are grateful to Ms. Willson for her clarity and discernment.”

    — Elizabeth Peterson, Family Court Reform Specialist

  • “As a licensed mental health professional, my colleagues and I are often met with seemingly insurmountable challenges when trying to help clients face what feels like systemic injustice and institutional betrayal in the family court system. Jody is an invaluable resource in helping survivors of psychological abuse, and all other types of family abuse at the hands of a high-conflict individual, navigate the often subjective and convoluted legal system. The depth of her knowledge in this field is vast; her expertise, grit, and empathy allow her to effectively empower her clients to seek justice for themselves and their children.”

    — Sarah Monich Hinkle, MSW, LCSW

  • “I have had the privilege of working alongside Jody in a program supporting individuals who are divorcing narcissists. Jody is a fantastic combination of compassion and realism. She has a brilliant strategic mind but is also down to earth and truly listens to the individuals she supports. I have had the good fortune to watch her make a huge difference in not only people's legal cases but also in their lives.”

    — Leah Hadley, AFC, CDFA, Professional Colleague

  • “Jody is awesome! Very knowledgeable attorney who is a wealth of knowledge. She helped me navigate my divorce and gave me wonderful ideas for my parenting plan. She is professional, resourceful, friendly, compassionate, and a champion for empowering women. Would highly recommend her. You won’t be disappointed!”

    — Ngoc "Yoomie" Nguyen, Physician Assistant and Coaching Client

  • “Balanced. Eloquent. Prepared. Unwavering. These are the qualities in a person needed to establish confidence in any high conflict situation. This is what Ms. Willson brings to the table.”

    — Elizabeth Peterson, Family Court Reform Specialist

  • “I highly recommend (Jody’s) services to clients needing guidance and support, as well as family law attorneys, organizations, agencies, and professionals who work with individuals and families who are impacted by the complexities of the family court system. I've seen first-hand how well Jody sorts through the chaotic mud-slinging of a family law case to focus on what truly matters for an optimal outcome.”

    — Sarah Monich Hinkle, MSW, LCSW

Meet Jody Willson

  • Nationally recognized and award-winning high-conflict divorce & custody expert specializing in the dynamics of coercive control & post-separation abuse

  • Trained parenting coordinator & mediator

  • Legislative policy influencer, child advocate & public speaker

  • Member of the National Safe Parents Organization

  • Trained in abnormal psychology, psychological and financial abuse, & family violence

  • Former practicing attorney who received winning decisions in every case litigated

With a legal background spanning more than two decades and hundreds of cases – and personal, first-hand experience of what it means to survive and prosper through a high-conflict divorce and custody matter – I can assist you with clarity and compassion.

Featured Blog Posts

Seasoned, experienced insights and practical guidance to help you before, during, and after high-conflict divorce, custody matters, and co-parenting.

Jody Willson  is a well-connected professional in the international family law arena and a blogger covering topics spanning cutting-edge trends in child custody law, family abuse, court reform, gender equity, post-divorce dating in the modern age, mental hygiene, and creating your best life!