What is "separation counseling"?
Once you've made the decision that you no longer want to be with your partner, it would be very helpful for you and your spouse to sit down with a professional and talk about the best way to separate for your particular family. This separation counseling includes how to tell the children, how to divide property, how you're going to deal with extended family and who's going to live in the house. Separation counseling will take away some of the anger and the intense pain that people feel during this process. Separation counseling can be very helpful, and almost a vital part of having an ultimately good divorce.