You & Your Children Deserve Peace

Offering practical solutions for parents navigating divorce.

Services

  • Pre-Filing Strategy

  • Documentation Strategy

  • Custody Evaluation Prep

  • Mediation & Trial Prep

  • Parenting Plan Guidance

  • Co-Parent Communication

  • Self Care & Boundary Setting

  • Protective Parenting Support

  • Personal Power Reclamation

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Meet Your Coach

Cat Climaco

Nationally Certified High-Conflict Divorce & Custody Coach | Protective Parent | Domestic Abuse Survivor |

Family Court Success Story

I do what I do, because I am you. I see you. I hear you. I believe you.

I’ve been there. I felt exhausted, terrified, confused, anxious, desperate, and trapped. I looked at my son and decided I could no longer stay in a marriage that I would never wish for him. That I would not let him grow up witnessing the abuse and confusing it with love. That I would break the cycle and create a better life for myself and my son. Despite the years of abuse, I made what still felt like the hardest decision of my life and filed for divorce. Today my life, my son, and my personal peace and safety are all better for it.

When I began the process of divorcing my abuser I naïvely believed that the family court system would protect us, but escaping the abuse and divorcing my son’s antagonistic father was the single most traumatic experience of my life. But it didn’t have to be.

Knowing what I know now, I wish I could go back and approach my divorce from a totally different angle. I wish I’d had someone who had been through it personally, with the knowledge, strategy and tools to help me protect my son, and my peace while navigating the experience of divorce and family court.

After 4 years of traumatic post-separation abuse and chaos inflicted upon my son’s life by his unhealthy father, the court recognized domestic abuse in our case in the form of coercive control and I was awarded sole decision-making in all areas and 75% custody with my son’s father only having parenting time every-other weekend. This protection is difficult to achieve - even with the distinction of domestic violence.

My success in family court used to be a unicorn story - but more and more survivors are securing protection for their children and themselves. It truly comes down to a process, to knowing what the courts care about (and what they don’t) so that you can achieve peace, safety, and protection for your children and yourself. I would be honored to help you navigate your way toward peace.

I am here to walk with you in it and guide you to a more peaceful presence.

“I trust my lawyer with my life, but when I began my divorce journey she made recommendations that turned out to be a disaster - and were very costly - because she didn’t understand the toxic nature of my antagonistic co-parent.

As your strategy partner that truly understands what you’re up against I can help you anticipate, strategize around, and even prevent divorce disasters.”

Testimonials

  • “Cat offered a wealth of knowledge and resources provided in an actionable way with empathy and understanding. I wish I had her at the beginning of my divorce, because she answered and solved multiple issues I have been trying to find answers to for over two years in just two sessions.”

    - Liz E. | Peaceful Presence Client

  • “I felt overwhelmed every time I tried to tackle my divorce to-do list. Cat helped me break it down into manageable tasks & suggested creative ideas that my lawyer hadn’t thought of. I can rest easy knowing Cat helped me cover all the bases in planning my divorce.”

    — Katie R. | Peaceful Presence Client

  • "Cat met me where I'm at with my journey. She didn't go through a scripted plan. I really appreciated that aspect. She was insightful and helpful and I feel confident in her ability to help me when the time comes. She didn't talk at me, but rather made me feel as though I was a part of the process and conversation. Thank you, Cat!"

    - D.F. | Peaceful Presence Client

My approach

Divorce can be a lonely and stressful journey - but it doesn’t have to be. 
You’ll receive strategy-focused coaching through a trauma-informed lens with a heaping spoonful of empathy and self care tools to help you stay centered through every phase of the process.

Self Care & Boundaries

Self care tools and boundary-setting practices are foundational to my coaching process. Your children need you grounded, calm and present so you can provide the love, support and protection they need and deserve.

Customized Strategic Coaching
Your children, your goals and your situation are unique to you. I’ll guide you in crafting a unique strategy to achieve your goals for life after divorce.

Guidance for Life After Divorce

I’ll be here to support you & help you navigate the highs and lows of your journey every step of the way until you’re ready to stand confidently on your own. During our coaching partnership I’ll connect with you with tools and resources to empower you to get to the other side of this challenge so you, and your children, can experience a more peaceful presence.

Certified in all 50 states by the High Conflict Divorce Coach Certification Program, a distinction recognized by the American Bar Association.

“Cat Climaco is a graduate of the High Conflict Divorce Coach Certification Program. This eight-week, intensive course focuses on the difficult dynamics of high-conflict divorce and child custody battles. Our program focuses on the intricacies of post separation abuse and our coaches are trained that it only takes one toxic, abusive or personality disordered individual to create a high-conflict situation. Cat will be an amazing resource and advocate for those attempting to navigate the family court system. It was an honor to have Cat in our program and I look forward to cheering her on in her advocacy work. ”
— Tina Swithin, CEO/Founder of the High Conflict Divorce Coach Certification Program

  • "Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist. What a terrible burden for children to bear—to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living."

    Glennon Doyle

  • "We all fear pain and struggle, but they are often necessary for growth..."

    Brené Brown

  • "Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

    Elie Wiesel

  • "History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children."

    -Nelson Mandela

  • "A broken family is a family in which any member must break herself into pieces to fit in. A whole family is one in which each member can bring her full self to the table knowing that she will always be both held and free."

    Glennon Doyle

  • “Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.”

    S. Kelley Harrell

  • “You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren't alone.”

    Jeanne McElvaney

  • “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

    Carl Jung

  • “Each time a woman stands up for herself without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”

    Maya Angelou

  • "It’s okay to feel all of the stuff you’re feeling. You’re just becoming human again."

    Glennon Doyle

  • "My husband is a narcissist. His thinking is disordered. And that can never change. His story will never change. Every relationship will follow the same cycle. Every recollection he tells will be a lie. Every other person in his life will be nothing more than an object to be used as a source of gain for him. He will never love. He will never feel empathy. He will never experience remorse. He will never be honest with himself, or those around him. This is who he is, and I did my best to help him, but now I was free."

    Brandy Fuller Anderson

  • "Accountability for abusers is needed because narcissists don’t respond to empathy, compassion or second chances. They respond to potential consequences."

    Shahida Arabi

  • "You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have"

    - Unknown

Discover how Cat can help you navigate your way toward peace and safety with a free 30-minute consult today.