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Lynne Glazer, M.S.W. Bio

Lynne Glazer, M.S.W. Biography

Lynne Glazer earned an MSW from the University of Connecticut and is a certified mediator with advanced training, a marital and divorce counselor, researcher, coach and strategist.

Lynne was also previously an elementary school teacher and is a mother of two successful grown children. Needless to say, she has an in depth understanding of children. She has also been involved in creating, implementing and facilitating a successful divorce group for children.

After researching marriage and divorce for over ten years and spending five years in the adversarial legal system herself getting her own divorce, she found that the counseling field and legal system were inadequate for appropriately solving problems and meeting the needs of families. She found out first hand that the adversarial arena of lawyers and courtrooms only created additional emotional suffering and financial loss.

Glazer on Divorce...What You Need to Know

Lawyers make their client’s life more miserable, by pitting you against your spouse in a battle that is impossible to win. Your legal grounds are undermined, and you are made to look bad while your spouse is made to look good. While this battle ensues, years are marked off your life. You are out priced by your lawyer, and are still without a divorce! Needless to say, lawyers needlessly prolong the conflict and the agreements are not personally suited to meet the needs of the family. This is the norm not the exception.

She also discovered that there is no coherent therapeutic framework or model to work off of for marriage and especially for the divorce process. Thus, clinicians are at a disadvantage when working with clients. Many clinicians are often wedded to one method or theory to help solve marital problems. One theoretical approach cannot save a marriage. Generally speaking, she discovered that most marriage counseling does little to improve or save marriages.

In regard to divorce, she discovered that many clinicians involve themselves in different stages of the divorce process often with little awareness of the events. The continuity of the experience is lost in the clinician’s lack of training and experience in treating this unique crisis. Also, little attention is given to the divorce decision process. The decision to divorce is the single most crucial and perhaps the most stressful aspect of the divorce process. Yet, little attention has been paid to this process. People cannot do what they don’t know. They can’t make decisions in a vacuum. Perhaps, many marriages might have been saved if they had had the right information and many divorces could have been less agonizing and simplified.

After going through three lawyers and two mediators and learning about the legal system through trial and error, Lynne felt that if she could prevent one person from going through what she went through, then she would have made an important contribution and difference in the quality of people’s lives. Concerned about the high emotional cost of troubled marriages and conflicted divorces, she created her own successful marital and divorce practice in 1996 and is expanding her practice to the inter net. She enjoys helping people find their own personal direction and ultimately their own north star. "Once you find your north star, you will never be lost." Lynne Glazer, M.S.W.