Why collaborative divorce?

BRUCE FREEDMAN, PH.D.

LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST

3 Northwestern Drive

Bloomfield, CT 06002

Tel: 860-242-3702

Fax: 860-243-3224

Email: brushrink@gmail.com

Why collaborative divorce?

As psychologists, we know that children grow up healthiest after their parents’

divorce if they are able to maintain good working relationships with both of their parents.

In addition, their adjustment into adulthood fares best when their parents maintain civil,

working relationships.

Adversarial divorce cannot help but fan the flames of conflict, anger and

resentment. Collaborative divorce is based on a much different format. Divorcing

spouses sit together for a series of meetings, with their attorneys present, and a mental

health clinician helping guide the meeting constructively. Finances, care of children, and

planning for the future are all done openly within this group. A financial neutral

professional is sometimes added to the group to help form the agreement.

The result is the experience divorcing spouses have of working together to

create an individually tailored, mutually created agreement as a basis for the divorce.

The agreement and the process are ways that each adult shows care and respect for each other and any children involved.

Sincerely,

Bruce Freedman, Ph.D.

CREDENTIALS/DEGREES

Bruce Freedman is a clinical psychologist who has been licensed in the State of

Connecticut since 1982. He has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Georgia State

University, with a specialty in Family Studies, granted in 1981, a Master’s Degree in

Counseling and School Psychology granted in 1978, and a Bachelor’s of Science in

Psychology and Mathematics received in 1968. He has maintained a private practice as a

family psychologist since 1982. He has also worked extensively in the Connecticut court

system, including Superior Courts for family, criminal and juvenile matters, and Probate

Courts for family matters. He has conducted over 2300 evaluations, almost entirely

those ordered by courts or agreed upon by the involved parties. Dr. Freedman has been

recognized in the court system for his expertise in clinical psychology, child and family

psychology, child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and substance abuse.