Be the Divorce Difference
Where your skills and perspectives have a profound impact on supporting clients in emerging from their divorce experience with the clarity, confidence, and courage to transform one of life’s most challenging transitions.
We pioneered the divorce coaching industry and operate in over twenty countries, offering best-practice certification programs. As a divorce coach, you’ll be part of a team dedicated to providing holistic support for those navigating divorce.
We are teeing up registration for the September 15 – December 11, 2026 CDC Divorce Coaching Intensive. The Bonus Program, scheduled for Tuesdays, August 11 – September 1, 2026, is included with your CDC course registration received on or before August 9, 2026.
The American Bar Association has on its website, in the Dispute Resolution section, a definition of various dispute resolution processes.
American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Overview
Dispute resolution is a term that refers to a number of processes that can be used to resolve a conflict, dispute or claim. Dispute resolution may also be referred to as alternative dispute resolution, appropriate dispute resolution, or ADR for short.
Divorce Coaching appears on the list of ADR processes and is defined as:
Divorce coaching is a flexible, goal-oriented process designed to support, motivate, and guide people going through divorce to help them make the best possible decisions for their future, based on their particular interests, needs, and concerns. Divorce coaches have different professional backgrounds and are selected based on the specific needs of the clients. For example, some divorce coaches are financial planners, mental health professionals, lawyers, or mediators who have experience dealing with divorcing clients.
In the CDC® program, we train various dispute resolution techniques as alternative or appropriate ADR approaches.
We train alternative, appropriate ADR approaches to helping people before, during, and after mediation; before, during, and after the collaborative law process; and before, during, and after litigation. There are other circumstances when this training can be applied, such as in co-parenting coaching. While this training also specializes in divorce matters, we train more broadly to encompass any disputed matter needing resolution.
Over the course of providing this training, we discovered the wide application in people’s lives in their relationships at home, work, and everywhere communication skills with these communication structures and frameworks are important.
To recognize our well-developed alternative dispute resolution structures and frameworks, we have decided to offer a dual certification.
Certified Divorce Coach® (CDC) and CADRC™ (Certified Alternative Dispute Resolution Coach)
14 Coaches Share Their Experience
We have hundreds of coaches certified by the CDC Board of Standards®.
Here are several divorce coaches sharing some of their experiences with clients.
Become Credentialled as a CDC Certified Divorce Coach®
MORE CREDIBILITY for YOU! This is the ONLY Certified Divorce Coach® Program. The CDC® certification marks are recognized in multiple countries, and we train coaches throughout North America and all around the world. This is the only Divorce Coach certification anywhere in the world and is The Professional Standard for Personal Divorce Coaching™. This program prepares you to have a new professional career.
LIVE TRAINING. Divorce Coaching requires live, interactive, experiential training to be an effective divorce coach. The course is live interactive training and coaching practice on divorce-related scenarios. This is not training to a minimum standard like most other programs – we train to a higher standard.
LEARN from EXPERT PROFESSIONALS. Instructors from multiple disciplines train the course with live interactions, discussions, and practice coaching during the class sessions.
We now have expert instructors training in Spanish. Click here for more information.
Professionals come to the Certified Divorce Coach® Program from many different backgrounds: mediation, family law, financial services, therapy, coaching, real estate, or other professions so there is much learning from each other in the interactive discussions.
Divorce coaches are confident and competent in the value they offer to their clients. Participants in the program are pleasantly surprised by the personal growth they also achieve during the course.
Throughout the program and after, every certified coach has an online community of graduates to turn to for support, insight, and encouragement.
All course participants also have access to the program founders by phone and email for support at no extra cost, from the time you enroll in the program until the day you retire from your divorce coaching practice.
There are many imitators in divorce coach training, but none who actually offer a regulated certification like the CDC Board of Standards®! Schedule a one-on-one call with our co-founders to answer your questions and discover what makes us different!
CDC Testimonial By Cherie Morris, JD, CDC®
Nancy Hetrick, CDFA®, CDC® of Smarter Divorce Solutions
Kurt Chacon, Collaborative Law Attorney, CDC® on the the benefits of Divorce Coach Training
Become a Certified Divorce Coach®
CDC®Known as the best organization to train and certify personal divorce coaches, the 6-part CDC Certified Divorce Coach® intensive includes a proprietary divorce coaching process and specific competencies designed to produce consistent results.
Find a Certified Divorce Coach®
A CDC Certified Divorce Coach® adheres to a Code of Ethics and Practice Standards and is qualified by the only regulated divorce coaching certification, which is registered in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. There are CDC Certified Divorce Coaches trained in over 20 countries. And there are no geographic restrictions on where a divorce coach can serve clients.
Divorce Coaching Masterclass
Free Virtual Masterclass Sessions with actionable insights to help you in specific ways. Topics include empowering clients, helping clients become credible clients, the biggest mistakes in divorce, taking the high road, real-life divorce coaching examples, and more.
I want to share with you how much I loved the CDC course.
I have done many courses over the years and would easily put your course as the best one I have ever done. The support we received was always available, the people I did the course with created such a beautiful sense of psychological safety and the tools I received were amongst the best I have been given. They are transferable across all the disciplines that I work in. Thank you for the enormous amount of time and energy that you put into delivering the course and for the ongoing thought that you constantly put into this to make it the professional course that it is!!!
As a Master Mediator who has often worked with high conflict couples, I was excited to have the opportunity to present this to the CDC Certified Coach Program and their coaches who support individuals involved in high conflict divorces. Pegotty Cooper has taken the De-escalation Skills Practitioner Training and teaches the skills to Divorce Coaches confronted with the emotional dynamics of their clients. In modelling these practices for their clients, they learn the secret to managing their emotions during challenging conversations and courtroom appearances; and as parents they learn to validate the intense emotions children experience when they feel caught in the middle between divorcing parents. I applaud the CDC Certified Divorce Coach program for embracing these leading edge, scientifically validated tools that can radically transform outcomes for individuals and families going through divorce.
Doug Noll
Master Mediator | JD/MA Author, De-Escalate and Empathy Leadership (Sept 2026)
Purpose Prize Fellow since 2014
BestLawyers.com – Lawyer of the Year 2014
California Lawyer 2012 Attorney of the Year
Co-Founders & Co-Authors Pegotty & Randy Cooper
Pegotty Cooper, CDC® and Randy Cooper, CDC®, Supreme Court of Florida Certified Family Mediator.
Co-Founders of the CDC Certified Divorce Coaching Program and Co-Authors of Divorce – Overcome the Overwhelm. Pegotty co-authored Divorce: Taking the High Road with 10 CDC® Certified Divorce Coaches.
Overcome the Overwhelm – 6 Biggest Mistakes in Divorce
Taking the High Road
From the CDC Blog:
How to Market Yourself as a Divorce Coach
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With CDC® Getting Clients Starts Before You Graduate
One of the most common questions aspiring divorce coaches ask is surprisingly simple: "How will I find clients?" It is an understandable concern. Starting any new profession involves uncertainty, and many future coaches wonder when they should begin thinking about...
Creating a Sustainable Divorce Coaching Practice
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The CDC Program is now available in Español!
Anunciamos que la capacitación acreditada de CDC Certified Divorce Coach® está ya disponible en español gracias a nuestro afiliado licenciado, Divorce Coaching Latino. La certificación es la misma, con el mismo entrenamiento de calidad y ahora en español.*
*(Announcing the CDC Certified Divorce Coach® accredited training is also now available in Spanish through our licensed affiliate, Divorce Coaching Latino. The training is the same. The certification is the same. Now also in Spanish. For more information, click here.