SEPARATION COACHING WITH LANA WICKSTROM | SASKATCHEWAN
Separation Coaching gives you a professional confidante for direct, honest, and effective advice.
What Separation Coaching Is (and Is Not):
What It Is
✅ One-to-one support for you, not both parents together.
✅ A place to think out loud with someone who understands the legal, practical, and human realities of separation.
✅ Scripts and language for hard conversations with your child’s other parent, your kids, your family, and professionals.
✅ Planning and boundaries around contact, timing, topics, and information-sharing.
✅ Perspective and self-regulation, so you can make decisions that line up with your values instead of just your reactions.
✅ Practical, skills-first, and grounded in real life — not theory.
What It Is Not
❌ Not legal representation and not legal advice. I don’t act as anyone’s lawyer.
❌ Not therapy or counselling. Coaching can sit alongside therapy, not replace it.
❌ Not a way to secretly move into joint work later — if I’m your coach, I won’t later mediate for both of you.
❌ Not about fanning the flames of conflict; it’s about making things less hard, even when the other parent doesn’t change.
Who Separation Coaching Is For
People in Saskatchewan who:
Are contemplating separation and feel frozen between staying and leaving.
Have just separated and feel like their brain is a mess of racing thoughts, fear, and grief.
Are somewhere in the middle and keep getting hijacked by their own reactions or other people’s opinions.
Feel like they’re using their lawyer as a very expensive counsellor and know that’s not sustainable.
Already have an agreement or order, but find it difficult or draining to deal with the other parent and want better ways to respond.
Common Worries I Hear
“My thoughts are all over the place — I can’t tell what’s real and what’s just panic.”
“I’m terrified of making the wrong move, so I’m doing nothing.”
“Everyone has an opinion: my friends, my family, the internet. None of it matches my life.”
“I didn’t see this coming and I feel like I’m always three steps behind.”
“We technically have an agreement, but day-to-day interactions with the other parent are exhausting and I don’t know what to do.”
Why work with a coach (and not just a lawyer / therapist / friends)?
Lawyers are essential, but they’re trained to handle legal issues, not to be your ongoing processing partner. Using them for everything is expensive and often unsatisfying.
Therapists are crucial for deep emotional work and mental health. Coaching focuses more on applied, practical decisions: what to say, what to do, and in what order.
Friends and family love you, but often give advice based on their own stories, fears, or values.
Separation Coaching gives you:
A law-literate, process-aware human in your corner who understands the systems you’re dealing with.
Space to sort through grief, guilt, anger, and fear and still make effective choices.
Help to design realistic, sustainable boundaries for you and your kids.
How Separation Coaching works:
We start with an initial one-to-one session (around 75–90 minutes) to understand your situation and priorities.
From there, we can decide whether a short series of sessions or a more flexible approach makes sense.
Coaching can be in person in Saskatoon or via Zoom, depending on your preferences and location.
Many clients are able to use extended health benefits if their plan covers services provided by a registered social worker. (You’ll need to check your plan; I don’t direct-bill.)
(You can adjust specific fees and session lengths as you finalize your offerings.)
Wondering if Separation Coaching is a good fit for you?
Get started with Separation Coaching.
I am currently able to secure a Roadmap Consult for clients within ten work days of being contacted.
I meet with clients via Zoom and in person. To get started, please watch the video and fill out the form below.
Watch the video below.
