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A New Group of Professionals Joins the Growing CDS® Community!What do REALTORS®, lawyers, mortgage professionals, financ...
10/26/2026

A New Group of Professionals Joins the Growing CDS® Community!

What do REALTORS®, lawyers, mortgage professionals, financial planners, and client service specialists have in common?

They all play important roles in supporting individuals navigating divorce, and each can benefit from specialized knowledge and communication skills that go beyond their core professional expertise.

Today, we're proud to recognize another group of professionals from across the United States and Canada who have earned their Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®) designation in 2026!

👏 Please join us in congratulating:

🇨🇦 Rebecca Dickerson
Client Intake and Office Manager, CDS®
Ontario, Canada

🇺🇸 Cynthia Munson
REALTOR®, CDS®
Colorado, USA

🇨🇦 Sean Smith
Professional Appraiser (P.App, CRA), CDS®
OntarIo, Canada

🇺🇸 Erica Fink
REALTOR®, CDS®
Michigan, USA

🇺🇸 Ken Hasty
REALTOR®, CDS®
Michigan, USA

🇺🇸 Karla Kyte
Mortgage Officer, CDS®
Colorado, USA

🇺🇸 Haralabos Valassis
Lawyer, CDS®
Connecticut, USA

🇨🇦 Sadaf Ehsan
Mortgage Agent Level 2, CDS®
Ontario, Canada

🇺🇸 Hope Pearse
Associate Broker/REALTOR®, CDS®
Michigan, USA

🇨🇦 Debora Trevisan
Financial Planner, CDS®
British Columbia, Canada

Their different professional backgrounds reinforce an important message: Divorce education isn't just for divorce attorneys.

Divorce affects finances, housing, family dynamics, and major life decisions. Professionals across these industries benefit from understanding how those challenges intersect and how to communicate effectively with clients experiencing them.

Through specialized communication training and interdisciplinary divorce education, the CDS® Program helps professionals build on their existing expertise and approach divorce-related client situations with greater knowledge, confidence, and understanding.

Congratulations to our newest CDS® Designees! Your commitment to continued professional development deserves recognition, and we're excited to welcome you to our growing community!

📘 Your professional expertise brought you this far. What could specialized divorce training add to it?

Discover what the Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®) Training can bring to your practice.

Get your FREE CDS® Training Guide:
🔗 https://thecdstraining.com/

Is the family home being addressed early enough in the divorce process? 🏡The family home is often one of the largest fin...
10/23/2026

Is the family home being addressed early enough in the divorce process? 🏡

The family home is often one of the largest financial assets in a divorce, yet real estate expertise is not always brought into the conversation early enough.

When real estate decisions are delayed or made without the right professional guidance, clients may face unnecessary financial risks, lost equity, and added emotional stress.

Join us for our November CDS® Canada Connect, where we will explore how a collaborative approach to divorce real estate can help professionals better protect their clients' interests.

The Home, The Equity, The Future: A Collaborative Approach to Divorce Real Estate

📅 Thursday, November 19, 2026
🕛 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST

Featured Speaker: Rebecca Plouffe, CDS®

Real Estate Broker and Managing Partner of The Mink Group, and Co-Founder of The Separation Network.

Rebecca will share insights into why real estate professionals should be involved early in the separation process and how collaboration across legal, financial, and real estate disciplines can help preserve equity, prevent costly missteps, and support more informed decisions.

What to Expect:

📚 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM: Educational presentation and professional insights
🤝 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM: Networking with fellow Canadian divorce professionals

CDS® designees can earn 1 hour of CDS® Continuing Education credit by attending.

Whether you work in legal, financial, mental health, or residential services, this conversation offers valuable perspectives on how interdisciplinary collaboration can make a difference for separating families.

Join us for an opportunity to learn, connect, and strengthen your professional network!

🔗 Register to attend: https://cdscanadaconnectnov2026.eventbrite.com

Please note: CDS® Canada Connect meetings are exclusively for divorce professionals in Canada.

More Professionals. More Industries. One Shared Commitment to Better Divorce Support.We’re excited to celebrate another ...
10/20/2026

More Professionals. More Industries. One Shared Commitment to Better Divorce Support.

We’re excited to celebrate another group of professionals who have earned their Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®) designation in 2026!

From real estate and financial services to mediation, coaching, and accounting, these new CDS® Designees represent a growing community of professionals across the United States and Canada who recognize the importance of specialized education when working with clients navigating divorce.

👏 Please join us in congratulating:

🇨🇦 Jae Morgans
Mediator and Coach, CDS®
Saskatchewan, Canada

🇨🇦 Hwan Young Kim
Financial Planner & Financial Advisor, CDS®
British Columbia, Canada

🇺🇸 Jennifer Roberts
Real Estate Broker, CDS®
New York, USA

🇨🇦 William Penner
Financial Advisor, CDS®
Manitoba, Canada

🇺🇸 James Adelfson
Real Estate Professional, CDS®
Queen Creek, USA

🇺🇸 Robert Yencha
Real Estate Sales Associate, CDS®
New Jersey, USA

🇺🇸 Lani Bozkurt
Practitioner, Certified Coach, CDS®
North Carolina, USA

🇺🇸 Clint Kuipers
Real Estate Agent, CDS®
Minnesota, USA

🇺🇸 Patrick Wanzer
CPA, CTRC, CDS®
Indiana, USA

🇺🇸 Ken Nelson
Real Estate Negotiation Expert, CDS®
Arizona, USA

What does this professional diversity tell us?

Divorce isn’t limited to one industry, and neither are the skills needed to effectively support those experiencing it.

That’s why the CDS® Training combines specialized communication skills with interdisciplinary divorce education, helping professionals strengthen the expertise they already bring to their work.

To our newest CDS® Designees, congratulations on investing in your professional development! We’re proud to recognize your achievement and welcome you to our growing CDS® community.

📘 Could the CDS® designation be the next step in your professional development?

Download our FREE CDS® Training Guide to explore the program, what you’ll learn, and how it can complement your existing expertise.
🔗 https://thecdstraining.com/

Supporting clients through divorce requires more than expertise in your own field. It requires understanding the challen...
10/16/2026

Supporting clients through divorce requires more than expertise in your own field. It requires understanding the challenges they face beyond it.

For Renee Cherowitz, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who specializes in supporting survivors of narcissistic and antagonistic abuse, the CDS® Training provided valuable knowledge about the legal, financial, and practical considerations that can affect her clients' decisions.

By expanding her understanding of the divorce process, Renee is better equipped to help clients navigate difficult circumstances with greater awareness, confidence, and a clearer understanding of their options.

This is the value of specialized divorce education:helping professionals strengthen their expertise while understanding the bigger picture of what their clients are experiencing.

Want to expand your knowledge and better support clients navigating divorce?

Learn more about the CDS® Training or download the FREE CDS® Training Booklet at www.thecdstraining.com

Different professions. Different areas of expertise. One shared commitment to better supporting clients navigating divor...
10/14/2026

Different professions. Different areas of expertise. One shared commitment to better supporting clients navigating divorce.

We're proud to recognize some of the dedicated professionals across the United States and Canada who have earned their Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®) designation in 2026!

👏 Jill Hernandez
Real Estate Professional, CDS®
California, USA

👏 Susan Conlin
Client Care Specialist, CDS®
Ontario, Canada

👏 Nina Kapferer
Lawyer, CDS®
Ontario, Canada

👏 Amanda Cowan
Broker Sales Associate, CDS®
Florida, USA

👏 Jamorgan Davis
Real Estate Professional, CDS®
Texas, USA

👏 Michael C. Weiner
Real Estate Professional, CDS®
New York, USA

👏 Chelsia Carriere
Financial Planner, CDS®
Alberta, Canada

👏 Amanda O'Reilly
REALTOR®, CDS®
Alberta, Canada

👏 Debbie Clark
Financial Advisor, CDS®
British Columbia, Canada

👏 Mataya Reid
Mortgage Broker/Associate, CDS®
British Columbia, Canada

Their diverse professional backgrounds reflect what makes the CDS® Training so valuable: Divorce impacts multiple areas of a client's life, and the ability to communicate effectively with clients navigating this transition is important across industries.

Through specialized communication skills and interdisciplinary divorce education, CDS® Training equips legal, financial, mental health, and residential professionals with practical tools to better understand, communicate with, and support their clients.

To our newest CDS® Designees, congratulations! Your commitment to professional development is something worth celebrating, and we're proud to welcome you to the CDS® community.

📘 Ready to take the next step in your professional development?

Get your FREE CDS® Training Guide and discover how this training can complement your professional expertise.

🔗 https://thecdstraining.com/

Your advice can be right and still be rejected.The question is not always whether your recommendation is sound.It may be...
10/13/2026

Your advice can be right and still be rejected.

The question is not always whether your recommendation is sound.

It may be whether you are communicating it in a way that makes sense to the client in front of you.

In divorce work, professionals often have to communicate complex information while clients are trying to make decisions, evaluate risk, determine their next steps, and move forward through significant change.

That is why simply providing more information is not always the solution.

Effective communication requires recognizing what the client is focusing on and adapting the conversation accordingly.

Are they focused on what they want to achieve?

What they want to avoid?

The larger outcome?

Or the specific next step?

These distinctions matter because the same recommendation can be communicated in very different ways.

The goal is not to change the professional advice.

It is to improve the communication surrounding it.

This is why specialized communication skills are a fundamental part of the Certified Divorce Specialist® (CDS®) Training. The program is designed to help divorce professionals strengthen the way they communicate with clients, particularly when conversations involve complexity, uncertainty, and heightened emotion.

Because being an expert in your field is only part of serving divorcing clients effectively.

Knowing how to communicate that expertise is a professional skill of its own.

Want to learn more about what is covered in the CDS® Training?

Download the FREE CDS® Training Guide to explore the program, what you will learn, and how the training can strengthen your work with divorcing clients.

The long weekend is almost over!And so is your opportunity to take $100 OFF the Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®) Trai...
10/12/2026

The long weekend is almost over!

And so is your opportunity to take $100 OFF the Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®) Training.

If becoming a CDS® has been something you’ve been meaning to do, you have just 1 day left to take advantage of the Long Weekend Sale.

Use code: CDSLW100

Enroll and Save $100: https://thecdstraining.com/become-a-cds/

“I have been in the Real Estate and Mortgage Industries for over 30 years and completed endless trainings and continuing education courses. This was by far the most informative, engaging, and enjoyable course I have ever attended.”
Jennifer Store, Senior Loan Officer, CDS® graduate

The weekend may be temporary.

What you gain from the CDS® Training can continue adding value to your work long after it’s over.

Don’t let this become another professional goal you planned to get to “later.”

You have 1 day left to save $100.

👉 Use code CDSLW100 before the offer ends tomorrow at 11:59 PM ET:
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You can be highly skilled in your profession and still encounter situations with divorcing clients that your original tr...
10/10/2026

You can be highly skilled in your profession and still encounter situations with divorcing clients that your original training never fully prepared you for.

Because divorce rarely stays neatly inside one discipline.

Communication breaks down. Emotions affect decisions. Financial, legal, mental health, and residential concerns overlap.

And clients often expect you to help them make sense of what is happening beyond the immediate issue in front of you.

That is where the Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®) Training adds another layer to your expertise.

Enroll and Save $100: https://thecdstraining.com/become-a-cds/

The CDS® Training helps you develop:
• Practical communication skills for challenging client interactions
• A broader understanding of the entire divorce process
• Greater confidence recognizing issues outside your own area of expertise
• Stronger interdisciplinary collaboration
• Specialized knowledge that can differentiate the way you serve divorcing clients

The training is on-demand with immediate online access, so you can start right away and work at your own pace.

“I am already applying my newly-learned skills and seeing an amazing difference in the effectiveness of my client communications. This training is a MUST for everyone who works professionally with clients going through a divorce.”
Debra Whitson, Family Law Attorney & Mediator, CDS® graduate

The goal is not to make you something you are not.
It is to make you even better at what you already do.

And through October 13, you can take $100 OFF the CDS® Training with code: CDSLW100

The more prepared you are for the complexities surrounding divorce, the more confidently you can show up when your clients need you most.

Use code CDSLW100 before the Long Weekend savings end on October 13 at 11:59 PM ET.

Become a CDS®: https://thecdstraining.com/become-a-cds/

Better client communication is not about saying more. It is about recognizing how the person in front of you is respondi...
10/09/2026

Better client communication is not about saying more. It is about recognizing how the person in front of you is responding and knowing how to adjust.

For Audrey Febres, a Paralegal and CDS® in Florida, the CDS® Training strengthened that awareness. She gained practical communication skills to build stronger rapport, reduce resistance, and respond more effectively during client interactions.

Because when clients are navigating divorce, how information is communicated can be just as important as the information itself.

Want to strengthen the way you communicate with divorcing clients?

Learn more about the CDS® Training or download the FREE CDS® Training booklet at www.thecdstraining.com

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