Becky Swanson Coaching

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For professionally established women facing divorce

Divorce doesn’t have to break you.It can be the place you become someone you respect.

A guided, guaranteed path through divorce — built for high-achieving women who want to protect their future, their kids, and their peace of mind, without losing themselves in the process.

Apply for a Strategy Session By application only — I work with a limited number of clients at a time.
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The part no one prepares you for

You’ve handled hard things before. This one is different.

You’re capable. You’ve built a career, run a household, made a hundred high-stakes calls before breakfast. Then divorce shows up, and none of that seems to help the way it should.

Suddenly you’re re-reading the same email four times, trying to guess what your attorney actually meant. You’re rehearsing a conversation with your ex that never goes the way you rehearsed it. You’re awake at 1am doing math on custody schedules, legal fees, and what happens to your kids if you get this wrong.

Every decision feels like it could be the expensive one. One reactive text can undo an entire day. And the advice everyone offers — fight harder, document everything, assume the worst — doesn’t feel like it’s protecting you. It feels like it’s costing you: in legal fees, in energy, in the version of yourself you actually want to be when this is over.

Getting pulled into the muck of divorce doesn’t just cost you peace. It costs you money — real money, in legal fees and decisions you can’t undo.
What strategic looks like

Imagine moving through this with a plan, instead of a knot in your stomach.

You know exactly what matters to you — emotionally, financially, for your kids — and you make decisions from that place instead of from panic.

Your communication with your ex becomes calm, structured, and hard to bait. Conflict de-escalates instead of compounding. Your attorney’s billable hours go toward strategy, not damage control.

You walk into mediation prepared, not just present. And you’re not carrying it alone — you have the right people, in the right order, actually working on your behalf.

This is what it looks like to respond instead of react. It’s not a personality trait. It’s a skill. And it’s the one I teach.

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Why this, and why me

I’m not your therapist. I’m not your attorney. I’m the strategist in between.

Attorneys solve legal problems. They’re not typically in the business of helping you regulate your response to an 11pm text, write the email that doesn’t sabotage your case, or decide what actually matters to you before you’re sitting across from a mediator.

Therapists help you process what happened. That work matters — and it’s usually not what you need most while you’re still in the middle of live decisions with real deadlines.

I work in between: emotional steadiness and strategic clarity, applied together, to the actual decisions in front of you right now.

ICF-certified life coach since 2014  ·  Certified Divorce Coach since 2023  ·  remarried divorced mom — I’ve done this myself, this isn’t theory
Everything you tell me stays off the record. I keep no session notes, so you can speak freely.
Ways we can work together

Support that matches where you actually are.

Every path starts the same way — with a real conversation, not a sales pitch.
1:1

Individual Coaching

The most focused way to work together. We meet on your schedule and build a plan around your specific divorce — not a generic one.

Group

Group Coaching

Structured sessions with other women navigating divorce alongside you — real coaching, plus the relief of knowing you’re not the only one.

Community

Courage & Grace

Private communities where you can connect with other women navigating divorce — for the moment a question comes up, or you just want to know you’re not the only one.

Which one fits depends on where you are and what you’re facing. That’s exactly what we’ll figure out together on your Strategy Session.

Getting started

Working together starts with one conversation.

Step One

Apply

Tell me where you are and what you’re facing. Every application gets a real read — not a form letter.

Step Two

Strategy Session

If it looks like a fit, we get on a call and look at your specific situation together. No script, no pressure.

Step Three

Begin

If we both agree it makes sense, we get started right away, on a schedule built around your life.

Is this you

This works best when it’s a real fit — on both sides.

This is for you if

  • You’re professionally established, used to solving hard problems, and currently out of your depth on this one
  • You’re weighing divorce or already in it, and you want a plan instead of chaos
  • You have — or want — a co-parenting relationship worth protecting
  • You want someone who tells you the truth, not just what you want to hear

Worth knowing

  • If your situation involves abuse or coercive control, or your children have needs that call for a specialist

I’ll tell you that directly on your application, and point you to someone better suited. That’s not a brush-off — it’s the same strategic honesty you’d be hiring me for.

Kind words from clients

“Becky is awesome! She provides a perspective that neatly and clearly identifies the issues. Becky listens — she processes — she demystifies and delivers an uncluttered assessment that is bang on. You’ll wonder how you managed without her.”

Patricia Nelson

“I highly recommend Becky as a coach. She is knowledgeable, patient, and non-judgmental. She helped me identify areas of improvement by asking a few simple questions. I wish I had met her a decade ago.”

Holly Wynter

You don’t need the whole plan today. You need the next right step.

Applying takes a few minutes. If it’s a fit, we’ll talk. If it’s not, I’ll tell you — and point you somewhere better if I can.