Clinically Effective Online Therapy for Divorce and Separation

At Grouport, we offer a range of online therapy options to help individuals going through divorce or separation process the emotional impact, navigate practical decisions with clarity, co-parent effectively, and rebuild a life and identity beyond the marriage. Many members choose to mix and match therapy formats.

Online Group Therapy

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Online Group Therapy for Divorce

Join a close-knit group of typically 6-8 members and a licensed therapist. Group therapy is especially valuable during divorce because the experience can feel profoundly isolating. Hearing others navigate the same grief, anger, fear, and logistical chaos normalizes your experience and provides practical wisdom from people who understand exactly what you are going through.

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Online Individual Therapy

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Online Individual Therapy for Divorce

Get personalized one-on-one treatment. Our individual therapy provides a confidential space to process the full emotional spectrum of divorce: grief, anger, relief, guilt, fear, and uncertainty. Your therapist helps you make clear-headed decisions, manage co-parenting challenges, and begin rebuilding your identity and life.

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Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

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Virtual IOP for Divorce

For those whose divorce has triggered a mental health crisis, such as severe depression, inability to function at work, or difficulty caring for children, our virtual IOP offers multiple therapy sessions each week, combining individual and group care to provide intensive stabilization during the most acute period.

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Online Family Therapy

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Online Family Therapy for Divorce

Our online family therapy helps families navigate the restructuring that divorce creates. This includes helping children process their feelings, establishing healthy co-parenting communication, managing blended family dynamics, and ensuring that children feel secure and supported through the transition.

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Online Teen Therapy

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Online Teen Therapy for Divorce

If your teen is struggling with your divorce, showing signs like anger, withdrawal, declining grades, acting out, or expressed loyalty conflicts, our teen therapy programs provide a safe, neutral space where they can process their feelings with a professional who is not a parent.

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Online Couples Therapy

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Online Couples Therapy for Divorce

If you and your spouse are considering divorce but have not made a final decision, couples therapy can help you both gain clarity. Sometimes this means repairing the relationship. Sometimes it means coming to a mutual, respectful decision to separate. And if you have already decided to divorce, couples therapy can help you navigate the process as co-parents and minimize conflict.

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Online therapy for divorce: personalized, flexible, and therapist-led. Process the emotional upheaval, make clear-headed decisions, and rebuild a life that is yours on your own terms.

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01   Choose the Right Therapy Format & Plan

Whether you're interested in online group therapy for divorce, individual therapy sessions, a combination of both, or our virtual IOP for more intensive care, you'll start by selecting the format that fits your needs and schedule. You can customize the frequency of sessions and even pair live therapy with our DBT self-guided program for added support between sessions. Just complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.

02   Have a 1:1 Consultation with a Care Coordinator

After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will discuss your mental health challenges, goals, and preferences. They'll walk you through the range of therapy options best suited to your needs for managing divorce. You'll make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you'll meet with and select session times that are most convenient for you.

03   Begin Treatment

Attend your weekly online therapy sessions to build coping skills, mood regulation strategies, and stability tools tailored to divorce. Our team will be here to support you at every step of the way, ensuring you're happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.

Recognizing When Divorce Is Affecting Your Mental Health

Divorce is one of life's most stressful transitions. Whether it was anticipated or sudden, mutual or contested, it can affect every part of your life at once, your sense of identity, your finances, your relationships with family and friends, your daily routines, and the future you had pictured. Most people experience significant emotional difficulty during this process, and it can become hard to tell what is a normal reaction and what is a sign you need more support. If these patterns persist, therapy can help you process what you're going through and rebuild what comes next.

Common signs to watch for include:

  • Overwhelming grief, even when the divorce is your choice You are experiencing waves of sadness, loss, and mourning that feel disproportionate or confusing, especially if you were the one who initiated the divorce. You are grieving not just the relationship but the future you planned, the family unit, and the identity you built as part of a couple.
  • Intense anger or resentment You feel consumed by anger at your ex, at yourself, or at the situation. The anger interferes with your ability to communicate civilly, co-parent effectively, or make clear-headed decisions about legal and financial matters.
  • Difficulty functioning at work or home Your performance at work has declined, household responsibilities feel overwhelming, or you are struggling to be present for your children. The cognitive and emotional demands of divorce are consuming your capacity.
  • Anxiety about the future You are consumed by worry about finances, custody, being alone, starting over, or what people will think. The uncertainty of everything changing at once creates a persistent state of dread.
  • Guilt about the impact on children You feel intense guilt about how the divorce is affecting your children and may be overcompensating, avoiding necessary boundaries, or paralyzed about custody decisions because of it.
  • Loss of identity You built your identity around being married, being part of a couple, or being a family unit, and now you do not know who you are as an individual. The question "Who am I without this marriage?" feels unanswerable.
  • Difficulty making decisions You are facing an overwhelming number of decisions simultaneously (legal, financial, custody, housing, logistics) while your emotional state makes clear thinking nearly impossible. Decision paralysis or impulsive choices driven by emotion are common.
  • Unhealthy coping behaviors You have turned to alcohol, excessive spending, rebound relationships, overwork, or other behaviors to numb the pain. These coping strategies provide temporary relief but create additional problems.

If you recognize these patterns in yourself or a loved one, working with a licensed therapist can help.

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How Divorce Affects Daily Life

Divorce does not just end a marriage. It restructures your finances, your living situation, your social network, your daily routine, your identity, and your relationship with your children. The simultaneous disruption across every domain of life is what makes it so overwhelming.

Co-Parenting & Children

If you have children, co-parenting with someone you are separating from is one of the most emotionally demanding challenges of divorce. You may disagree on custody arrangements, struggle to communicate without conflict, worry about the impact on your children, or have difficulty maintaining consistent routines across two households. Children are remarkably resilient, but they need their parents to manage this transition well.

Financial Stress

Divorce often creates significant financial strain: legal costs, maintaining two households on income that previously supported one, dividing assets, and adjusting to a new financial reality. Financial anxiety compounds emotional stress and can impair your ability to think clearly about settlement decisions that will affect you for years.

Identity & Self-Worth

Marriage often becomes central to your identity. Divorce forces you to answer fundamental questions: Who am I outside this relationship? What do I want for my life now? Am I lovable? The loss of the marital identity can feel like losing yourself, and rebuilding takes time, intention, and often professional support.

Social Network & Isolation

Divorce frequently reshapes your social landscape. Mutual friends may take sides or drift away. Coupled friends may become uncomfortable around you. Your social calendar, which was built around being part of a pair, may collapse. The resulting isolation often coincides with the moment you most need support.

Mental Health

Divorce significantly increases the risk of depression, anxiety, substance use, and in severe cases, suicidal ideation. The grief, stress, loneliness, and upheaval create a perfect storm for mental health deterioration. People going through divorce are also at higher risk for physical health problems including cardiovascular disease, sleep disruption, and weakened immune function.

Decision-Making Under Duress

Divorce requires you to make some of the most consequential decisions of your life (custody arrangements, financial settlements, housing) while you are at your emotional worst. Anger, grief, guilt, and fear all distort judgment. Having a therapist as a thinking partner during this period can prevent decisions you will regret.

What to Expect in Your First Divorce Therapy Session

Starting therapy when you are already exhausted and unmotivated can feel like a big ask. Here is what your first few sessions typically look like.

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Share Where You Are

Your therapist will ask about your situation: where you are in the divorce process, what triggered it, how you are coping, and what feels most urgent. Whether you are considering divorce, in the middle of it, or trying to rebuild after, your therapist will meet you where you are without judgment.

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Identify Your Priorities

Together, you will sort through the tangle of emotions, decisions, and stressors to identify what matters most right now. This might be managing overwhelming grief, improving communication with your ex for the sake of your children, making a specific decision you have been avoiding, or simply surviving the next week.

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Set Collaborative Goals

You and your therapist will define what progress looks like for you. This might include processing anger so it does not drive your legal decisions, developing a co-parenting communication strategy, rebuilding your sense of identity, managing anxiety about finances, or creating a support system for the transition ahead.

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Build Your Support Plan

Your therapist will introduce evidence-based techniques tailored to your situation: grief processing for the loss of the marriage, cognitive restructuring for catastrophic thinking about the future, communication strategies for co-parenting, and behavioral activation to rebuild a life you are engaged with. You will leave your first session with a clear plan and immediate next steps.

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Your Divorce Treatment Starts Here

At Grouport, our virtual divorce therapy integrates several evidence-based techniques designed to help you process the emotional impact, make sound decisions, co-parent effectively, and rebuild a meaningful life:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT helps you identify and challenge the distorted thinking patterns that divorce triggers, such as "I will never be happy again," "This is entirely my fault," "I am a failure because my marriage failed," or "No one will ever love me." These thoughts feel absolutely true in the moment but are cognitive distortions amplified by grief and stress. CBT also helps you separate emotional reactions from practical decisions, so anger does not drive your legal strategy and guilt does not lead you to accept unfair settlement terms.

Grief Processing

Divorce involves a genuine loss, often multiple losses at once: the relationship, the future you planned, the family unit, your daily routines, mutual friendships, and financial security. Grief processing gives you space to mourn these losses fully rather than suppressing them or rushing past them. Unprocessed grief shows up as chronic anger, depression, or an inability to move forward. Your therapist will help you work through the grief at your own pace while preventing it from paralyzing you.

Co-Parenting Skills & Communication

If you have children, learning to co-parent effectively with your ex is one of the most important and challenging aspects of divorce. This treatment component focuses on practical communication strategies for reducing conflict, establishing consistent boundaries and routines across households, managing disagreements about parenting decisions, and keeping children out of the middle. The goal is a functional co-parenting relationship that prioritizes your children's wellbeing even when the personal relationship is strained.

Narrative Therapy & Identity Rebuilding

Narrative therapy helps you reconstruct your life story in a way that includes the divorce without being defined by it. After years of building an identity around being married, being a spouse, and being part of a family unit, divorce forces you to answer "Who am I now?" Narrative therapy helps you reclaim your story, separate your worth from the outcome of the marriage, rediscover interests and values that may have been dormant, and build a forward-looking identity that is authentically yours.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT helps you move forward with building a meaningful life even while grief, anger, fear, and uncertainty are present. Rather than waiting until you feel "over" the divorce to re-engage with life (a wait that can last years), ACT teaches you to take values-driven action in the presence of difficult emotions. If being a good parent, pursuing career growth, or eventually having a healthy relationship are important to you, ACT helps you move toward those values even on days when the divorce feels overwhelming.

DBT Skills

DBT skills provide practical tools for managing the emotional intensity of divorce. Distress tolerance skills help you survive the worst moments, like a hostile exchange with your ex, a painful custody handoff, or a wave of grief triggered by a memory, without making impulsive decisions. Emotion regulation helps you modulate anger, sadness, and anxiety so they do not drive destructive behavior. Interpersonal effectiveness skills (particularly DEAR MAN) help you communicate needs and boundaries clearly with your ex, your lawyer, and your support system.

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Meet Our Licensed Divorce Therapists

Every Grouport therapist is a licensed, accredited mental health professional with specialized training in divorce, relationship dissolution, grief, and life transitions.

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Our therapists typically have over a decade of clinical experience across diverse settings, with specialized expertise in divorce, separation, co-parenting, grief, and life transitions, and evidence-based interventions like CBT, interpersonal therapy, behavioral activation, and social skills training.

We continually evaluate outcomes through internal studies and outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne.

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Grouport’s Results

80%of our members start with moderate to severe mental health symptoms

70% of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks

50% of our members achieve remission levels within just 8 weeks

80%
of our members start with moderate to severe mental health symptoms

70%
of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks

50%
of our members achieve remission levels within just 8 weeks

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All Your Therapy Needs, All in One Place

Group, individual, couples, family, IOP, and teen therapy — all online, all therapist-led. Mix and match care options to fit your needs — and get discounted pricing when you bundle.

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Group Therapy

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Individual Therapy

$112/session
billed at $448/month

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Family Therapy

$160/session
billed at $640/month

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IOP Therapy

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We Also Treat These Conditions

Divorce often co-occurs with other mental health conditions. Our licensed therapists are experienced in treating a wide range of challenges, and many members address multiple concerns simultaneously through our flexible therapy options.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Services Does Grouport Offer?

Grouport provides online group therapy, individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, intensive outpatient program (IOP), all held virtually over video chat. We also offer a DBT self-guided program. Many members combine multiple therapy types to best fit their needs.

When Should I Start Therapy for Divorce?

As early as possible. Whether you are contemplating divorce, in the middle of proceedings, or trying to rebuild afterward, therapy helps at every stage. Starting before or during the process can prevent emotional reactions from driving decisions you will regret (especially around custody and finances). Starting after the divorce helps you process the grief and rebuild. There is no wrong time, but earlier intervention generally leads to better outcomes for you and your children.

Is Divorce Therapy the Same as Couples Therapy?

Not necessarily. Divorce therapy can take several forms. Individual therapy helps you process your own emotions and make clear-headed decisions. Couples therapy can help you and your spouse decide whether to divorce or, if you have decided, navigate the separation with less conflict. Family therapy helps children and the family system adjust. Many people benefit from a combination.

Are Grouport's Licensed Therapists Qualified to Help with Divorce?

Yes, every Grouport therapist is accredited and licensed. Our network includes Licensed Psychologists (PhD, PsyD), Licensed Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHC), and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT). Our therapists specialize in evidence-based approaches including CBT, grief processing, co-parenting skills, and narrative therapy.

How Does Divorce Therapy Help with Co-Parenting?

Divorce therapy helps you develop practical communication strategies for co-parenting with someone you are in conflict with. This includes setting boundaries, using structured communication methods (like BIFF: brief, informative, friendly, firm), keeping children out of the middle, managing disagreements about parenting decisions, and maintaining consistency across households. The goal is a functional co-parenting relationship that puts your children first even when the personal relationship is strained.

Can Therapy Help If I Am the One Who Was Left?

Yes. Being left by a spouse often triggers a unique set of emotions: rejection, betrayal, humiliation, loss of control, and shattered trust. You may be dealing with the grief of losing the relationship compounded by the shock and injustice of not having a choice. Therapy helps you process these layered emotions, rebuild self-worth that the rejection may have damaged, and move forward without the bitterness and resentment becoming permanent.

How Do I Know If I Should Get Divorced?

This is one of the most common questions people bring to therapy, and a good therapist will not tell you what to do. Instead, therapy helps you gain clarity by examining your relationship patterns, identifying what is and is not fixable, understanding what you need, and making a decision that is informed by your values rather than driven by fear, anger, or guilt. Some people find clarity quickly. Others need time. Both timelines are valid.

How Long Does Divorce Therapy Take?

The duration depends on where you are in the process and what you need. Some people benefit from short-term therapy (8-12 sessions) focused on crisis management during the most acute phase. Others engage in longer-term therapy (6-12 months) to process grief, rebuild identity, and establish a new life. If co-parenting challenges are ongoing, periodic check-ins may be helpful long after the divorce is finalized.

How Can I Find the Right Divorce Therapy for My Needs?

Finding the right therapy starts with understanding your needs. If you need personalized support processing emotions and making decisions, individual therapy is ideal. If you benefit from shared experience, group therapy connects you with others navigating the same transition. If the divorce is affecting your children, family therapy helps the whole system. Not sure where to start? Schedule a free call with a care coordinator who can help you build a personalized plan.

How Much Does Divorce Therapy Cost?

We offer flexible therapy options with straightforward pricing:

Online Group Therapy: Averages $32/session ($140/month).
Online Individual Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
Online Couples Therapy: Averages $114/session ($492/month).
Online Family Therapy: Averages $148/session ($640/month).
Virtual IOP: Averages $311/week ($1,348/month).
Online Teen Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
DBT Self-Guided Program: One-time fee of $500.

Payment Options: Monthly, Quarterly (Save 10%), Biannually (Save 15%). No long-term commitment. Switch therapists anytime. Cancel anytime!

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Does Grouport Offer Therapy for Children of Divorce?

Yes. We offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens and Adolescents (under 18). Our teen therapy programs provide a safe, neutral space for adolescents to process the impact of their parents' divorce. Children and teens often feel caught in the middle, experience loyalty conflicts, or internalize blame. Having a therapist who is not a parent gives them permission to express what they are actually feeling.

What Are the Stages of Grief After Divorce?

Divorce grief often follows a pattern similar to other forms of loss, though not in a neat, linear sequence. Common stages include denial (this is not really happening), anger (at your ex, at yourself, at the situation), bargaining (if I had done things differently), depression (the full weight of the loss), and acceptance (this is my reality, and I can build a life from here). You may cycle through these stages multiple times, and that is normal. Therapy provides structure and support through each phase.

What Outcomes Has Grouport Seen with Therapy?

Our therapy outcomes are backed by outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne. 80% of our members start therapy with moderate to severe symptoms. Within just 8 weeks, 70% of members see clinically significant reduction in anxiety and depression, and 50% achieve remission levels.

How Do I Cancel My Divorce Therapy Subscription?

You can cancel your subscription at any time. No long-term commitment is required. Simply email us at support@grouporttherapy.com and we will send you a quick cancellation form to fill out. If your sessions occur within the member portal, you can also cancel under the manage subscription tab.

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