The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy 21st Century Divorce
An interview with family law attorney Laura A. Wasser, Esq. Curt and Katie talk with Laura about the process of divorce, collaboration among professionals, and the creation of her online divorce mediation platform, it’s over easy.
It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. We are human beings who can now present ourselves as whole people, with authenticity, purpose, and connection. Especially now, when therapists must develop a personal brand to market their practices.
To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.
Interview with Laura A. Wasser, Esq. C.E.O. of it’s over easy & Host of The Divorce Sucks! Podcast
Attorney Laura Allison Wasser is an author, entrepreneur, and Family Law expert. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the online divorce platform, it’s over easy. Laura has represented celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Ryan Reynolds, Angelina Jolie, Jimmy Iovine, Maria Shriver, and Stevie Wonder, but she maintains that divorce is the great equalizer—it terrifies everyone. Laura’s made it her mission to change that by creating it’s over easy, which gives divorcing couples an easy to use resource to dissolve their marriage that is accessible (and affordable) to everyone.
In this episode we talk about:
- Laura’s background in Family Law, her book It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way
- How Laura perceives the importing distinctions between being an empathic “divorce” lawyer and being a therapist
- How people can navigate through divorce by yourselves, without needing to bring in a divorce attorney
- The different mechanisms to get a divorce and how to decide which referral to make
- How Laura collaborates with therapists and decides to refer to therapists
- The importance of handling divorce well for moving forward in your life
- Her opinions on how to help families get through the process
- Boundaries that attorneys should set within their work
- Her referral network, how she develops her referral network
- The turn off of therapists talking too much about their own experiences
- Reminding ourselves that we are being observed by those who we are collaborating with
- The shock of mental health providers breaking confidentiality with her
- How she launched her product out to the market (online divorce platform)
- Her logic on how she created the platform, with all the pieces considered
- The flak she got from some other attorneys
- Connecting divorcing individuals to all the resources they need to move through the process effectively
- Addressing the broken, clogged up court system
- How to create closure when getting divorced
- The power of helping people get the knowledge they need
Resources mentioned:
We’ve pulled together any resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.
It Doesn’t Have to be That Way: How to Divorce Without Destroying Your Family or Bankrupting Yourself by Laura Wasser
it’s over easy blog: Co-Parenting with an Asshole
Credits:
Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/
Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/