DRI Alliance for Marriage and Divorce Professionals

William J. Doherty, Ph.D.

Co-founder and internationally recognized marriage expert Bill Doherty, Ph.D. has been working with therapists, legislators, lawyers and mediators for years to better serve couples struggling with divorce decisions.  As a researcher, he has documented high levels of divorce ambivalence among couples even after starting the divorce process.  As a therapist, he has developed Discernment Counseling, a new way to work with divorce ambivalence presenting in the form “mixed agenda” couples where one partner is leaning out of the marriage and the other wants to save it.  This is a frustrating and challenging situation for therapists, lawyers, mediators—and most of all, for the couples themselves.  (read more at the site)