“Divorce coaches are supporting their clients through breakups, offering emotional support, logistical help and strategies for reducing stress and making clearheaded decisions.”
Brianna Holt, The New York Times, on the
rise of divorce coaching
A high-net-worth divorce is decided across dozens of high-stakes choices, made under pressure, on a compressed timeline, during the worst stretch of your life. You have advisors for the law and the finances. We make sure the person making the decisions is clear, prepared, and steady.
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A high-net-worth divorce isn’t settled in a single moment. It’s settled across dozens of high-stakes decisions: what to concede, what to hold, what to say in the room, and what to leave unsaid. Most of them are made under pressure, during the worst stretch of your life.
This is not a metaphor. Sustained stress degrades attention, memory, and judgment, the exact faculties a complex negotiation demands. People who are precise and composed in a boardroom make worse decisions when the matter is personal and the pressure never lets up.
No one on your team is responsible for the one thing that decides all of it: the quality of your thinking at the moment a decision actually gets made. That gap is where good outcomes quietly become bad ones.
Your attorney handles the law. Your financial advisor handles the numbers. If you have a therapist, they handle the grief. No one is managing you, the decision-maker at the center of it all, through the process with a structured plan and a clear head.
That is what Bradbury Company does. And because you arrive at every meeting prepared, organized, and clear on your priorities, the expensive hours you’re already paying for (attorney, mediator, financial advisors) go further. Preparation is aimed at exactly this. Fewer reactive detours, fewer escalations, fewer decisions that have to be reopened later. The goal isn’t cheaper advice. It’s a client who uses expensive advice well.
Derek B. Davis, CDC®
Founder, Bradbury Company
Derek B. Davis founded Bradbury Company to fill a void he saw repeatedly: high-net-worth individuals facing divorce often have an attorney for the law, an accountant for the numbers, and a therapist for the grief, but no one focused solely on helping the person at the center think clearly, communicate strategically, and make sound decisions under pressure.
Derek is a Certified Divorce Coach® and the creator of The Bradbury Method, a private coaching framework built for executives, founders, business owners, professionals, and families facing divorce with significant financial, personal, and reputational stakes.
His background sits at the intersection of psychology, communication, strategy, and high-pressure decision-making. He holds an MA in Industrial and Organization Psychology from Oklahoma State University and a BA in Communication from Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books on money, investing, and history, a longtime consultant to businesses on strategy and operations, and serves as a City Commissioner in Columbia, South Carolina.
Bradbury Company works with a deliberately small roster of clients at a time. Every engagement is private, personal, and built around discretion.
Before every pivotal decision, we separate emotion, urgency, and long-term priority, so you know what you actually want before you walk into the room with your attorney, not after you’ve already committed.
Attorney meetings, mediation, depositions, co-parenting conversations, family disclosures. You arrive clear on your priorities, aware of your triggers, and rehearsed, prepared for each one rather than reacting to it in real time.
The most expensive moves in a divorce are reactive: conceding to end the discomfort, or escalating out of anger. We build the deliberate pause between the trigger and the decision, where the assets and the control are actually protected.
You carry the weight of every decision alone, right up until you don’t. We slow the moment down, ask the questions your advisors won’t, and move you from reaction to intention before the stakes are locked in.
Documents, valuations, timelines, competing demands. We break it into a sequence: what needs a decision now, what can wait, and what to ignore entirely.
The capacity to stay clear under pressure doesn’t expire when the decree is signed. It carries into co-parenting, the next deal, and every consequential decision after this one.
One hour with the founder. Choose your time, then complete payment to confirm it. We discuss your situation, your timeline, your existing advisory team, and whether coaching makes sense for you. We’ll tell you honestly if it doesn’t.
We define what you want on the other side of this, identify the decisions that need immediate structure, and build a sequenced engagement that fits your commitments, your pace, and the phases of the process you’re in.
Ten one-hour sessions a month, plus targeted preparation before key events (mediation, depositions, disclosure conversations), debriefing after them, and accountability through the process. The method is integrated throughout; you always know what comes next.
Sessions conducted by phone or video. Scheduling is handled through a private booking page.
No, and that line isn’t blurry. We don’t interpret your agreements, evaluate your settlement, tell you what you’re entitled to, or touch a legal document. When something is a legal question, we write it down and it goes to your attorney. What we do is make sure you arrive at that meeting knowing what you want, why you want it, and which questions actually need answering.
No. Therapy processes the past; coaching structures the decisions in front of you. Many clients work with a therapist concurrently. The two are complementary, not interchangeable. If we believe you’d be better served by clinical support, we’ll say so.
Mediation and collaborative practice are processes for reaching agreement between two people. A mediator is neutral by definition and cannot take your side. A collaborative team is built around the settlement. Coaching sits outside all of it and belongs to you alone. It travels with you into whichever process you choose, and it doesn’t end when that process does.
The opposite. Attorneys consistently prefer prepared clients: you arrive at meetings organized, decided on priorities, and ready to instruct rather than deliberate on the clock.
We’ll walk you through what each process asks of you and what it costs in privacy, control, timeline, and involvement. We won’t tell you which one to pick, because that recommendation belongs to counsel. What we will do is help you build the questions to take to two or three professionals in each category, so the choice gets made deliberately instead of by default.
No. We work one side of the table. If your spouse wants coaching support as well, we can point them toward other coaches, but the value here depends on being unambiguously yours.
Only if you want us to, and only with your written permission. Most of the value happens without any coordination at all, because the work shows up in how you arrive at their meetings. Nothing leaves a session unless you send it.
Yes, as a matter of firm policy and professional ethics. Every engagement is governed by a written confidentiality agreement. One honest distinction: coaching conversations are not attorney-client privileged, so anything with legal sensitivity belongs with your lawyer first. We’ll help you keep that line clean, and we coordinate with counsel on what should live where.
It’s structured. We identify the decisions actually in front of you, separate the ones that are urgent from the ones that only feel urgent, and prepare for whichever room you’re walking into next. You leave with something written down. This isn’t an open-ended hour of talking about how it’s going.
No. Early is when preparation is worth the most. Many clients engage before anything is filed, while options are still open and nothing is yet on the record.
No. Clients arrive at every stage, including the week before mediation and the year after the decree. The decisions don’t stop when the filing happens. If anything they get more consequential and more compressed.
That happens, and it isn’t a failed engagement. The work is clarity, not a particular outcome. Some people arrive intending to leave and find they were reacting to something else. Some arrive uncertain and leave certain. Either way, the decision got made on purpose.
Yes, on the decision side. Parenting plans, communication protocols with the other parent, how and when you tell them, what you’re modeling in front of them. The consistent finding in the research is that conflict, not divorce itself, is what damages children. That’s a preparation problem, and it’s coachable. If your children need clinical support, that’s a child therapist, and we’ll say so.
Then coaching isn’t the right first call, and we’ll tell you that on the $99 session rather than after you’ve signed something. Depression, substance use, and any concern about your physical safety belong with licensed professionals. We keep referrals for exactly this reason. That conversation is confidential and it costs you nothing further.
Sessions are conducted by phone or video, and clients are located wherever they are located. Because this is not legal work, state lines are not a constraint. Your attorney handles the law of your jurisdiction. We work on the person making the decisions.
No. Nobody honest does. What we can tell you is what the work targets, which is the quality of your thinking at the moment a decision gets made. Everything downstream of that belongs to the process, the other side, and the professionals handling the law and the numbers.
The first step is a one-hour meeting with Derek B. Davis: $99, payable when you book. Your session is confirmed once payment is received. If we go forward, engagements are a flat annual fee covering ten one-hour sessions per month. There is no hourly meter. Derek will walk you through the numbers on the call.
The first step is a one-hour meeting with Derek B. Davis. Tell us where you are. We’ll tell you honestly whether coaching makes sense for your situation right now, and exactly what it would look like if it does.
Most clients arrive before the first attorney meeting. Some arrive mid-process. A few arrive after, rebuilding. All three are the right time.