Expert Support to Simplify Your Separation & Divorce.
Navigate separation with clarity, confidence andcompassionate guidance through a structured process designed to reduceconflict, uncertainty and overwhelm.
Simplify helps separating couples organisetheir financial information, build a clear picture of their asset pool, understand their options and work towards an informed agreement.
We then coordinate independent legal advice and prepare the Consent Order documentationneeded to formalise your financial settlement with the Court, guiding you everystep of the way.
Informed
Empowered
Thrive
A bright future begins with a well-planned, streamlined, and collaborative separation and divorce.
Are you feeling overwhelmed with these challenges?
- Feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to start?
- Understanding what information you'll need
- Dividing assets, debts and superannuation fairly
- Navigating parenting arrangements
- Communicating with your former partner
- Preparing for independent legal advice
- Formalising your agreement through Consent Orders
- Managing uncertainty about your financial future
- Reducing conflict and protecting important relationships
Your experience matters deeply to us.
You are empowered to have clarity and confidence to achieve your best outcomes
More informed
Breaking through the weeds to focus on the situation and factually communicate informed decisions brings fast, cost effective, and positive results, while avoiding costly mistakes.
More empowered
People who overcome emotional distress, and who are heard and understood are empowered to negotiate and communicate with confidence to achieve their best outcomes.
More opportunities
People who have the tools to achieve a resolution have less stress in their daily lives and an easier and more successful transition to a brighter future. This is how you thrive.
At Simplify, we can help you thrive through your Separation & Divorce journey and beyond
Andrea Hooper I Founder & Director | Separation Specialist
Andrea founded Simplify after recognising a significant gapin the separation sector: couples were often left to choose between engaginglawyers to manage every part of their matter or attempting to navigate anunfamiliar, emotionally demanding and legally significant process on their own.
Drawing on her professional leadership experience, personal experience of separation and extensive work supporting separating families, Andrea designed an end-to-end pathway that brings structure, coordination and humanity to the financial settlement process. Simplify guides couples from their initial strategy and financial disclosure through to a clear balance sheet, informed settlement discussions, independent legal advice, Consent Order documentation and filing with the Court.
Andrea remains involved throughout each client journey, providing strategic direction, guiding communication and supporting clients through the important decisions and more sensitive stages of their separation. She works closely with Simplify’s team, drawing on each person’s expertise while maintaining oversight of the process and ensuring clients feel personally supported from beginning to end.
Her approach combines calm, practical guidance with a strongfocus on reducing confusion, unnecessary conflict and emotional escalation.Andrea helps clients move through separation with greater clarity andconfidence, working towards legally formalised outcomes while preserving moreof their wealth and protecting the relationships that matter most.
It would be our privilege to support you to thrive too.
The Simplify Way
It’s the way we strategically approach your situation which aligns your needs with a streamlined and fast-tracked process
Our Aim
- To be your biggest supporter
- To advocate and capture key discussion points and decisions
- Providing tailored next step options
- Simplifying your journey
Your results
- Making clear and informed decisions
- Supported at lawyer and accountant meetings
- Options for accommodation, legal, lending, financial, accounting, utilities, and childcare services
- Equipped for a brighter future
What will it be like to work with Simplify?
Person-Centred Strategy and Support for a clear pathway toward resolution and best outcomes
Envision
Simplify’s 1:1 expert coaching and counselling sessions provide you with time and space so you can build emotional resilience, refine your mindset, define your best outcomes, visualise your future, and move forward with confidence. Your own Internal Advocate.
Inspired Action
Navigate your journey with Simplify by your side, offering continuous access through our popular packages to our expert emotional and logistical support, ensuring the successful implementation of your personalised plan. We are on your team, and here when you need us.
Empowered Future
Your separation and divorce will not define you. We support you to strategically prepare for your transition to a brighter life of independence, hope, freedom, and opportunity. We support career planning, financial goals, and navigating the world of dating. Also offering you access to our extensive network of post-divorce resources to make your transition smoother.
Your Chosen Legal Process
Navigating family law is complex. Working with an experienced lawyer who aligns with your values is crucial for achieving the best outcomes. Simplify can connect you with reputable family lawyers within your budget and support you in interviewing them to ensure a good fit. There are also DIY options for amicable couples. If you can agree on how to divide your property, you can:
Informal agreements can be made without a lawyer but are not enforceable by a court. This could lead to future court disputes. It’s often better to create a financial agreement or obtain consent orders.
A financial agreement outlines how property is divided and can be made at any relationship stage. Though court approval isn't needed, strict rules apply, and legal advice is required.
A consent order is a court-approved written agreement with the same effect as a court order. The court ensures fairness before approval. Applications are filed in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia or the Family Court of Western Australia.
Online and DIY solutions for consent orders or divorce applications are suitable for amicable couples with uncomplicated assets. Simplify can support your DIY application to reduce confusion. However, DIY options are not ideal if financial transparency is lacking or undue influence is present. Parenting disputes require family dispute resolution, and Simplify provides information and referrals to reliable services throughout your separation process. Contact us for your parenting agreement options.
How Simplify supports your Lawyer
Simplify handles many non-legal aspects of separation and divorce, allowing Family, Relationship, and Divorce Lawyers to focus on the legal process more efficiently, saving you time and money.
Simplify will guide you with empathy to turn the emotional side of divorce into the business of divorce. This is a time when many clients experience a gap between where they are and where they want to be. Simplify will support you at your lawyer meetings and you will feel prepared and ready to make informed decisions to close this gap.
The Simplify Engagement Framework collaborates with Divorce, Family, and Relationship Lawyers to provide holistic client support, aiming for non-combative and positive resolutions. We help you to stay above the line and out of the weeds.
How Simplify supports your Career and your Workplace
At Simplify, we understand the challenges that separation and divorce can have on your career, and how it can impact you in your workplace. Our mission is to ease this transition for you while offering educational and coaching support to your leaders and your organisation.
- Emotional support and logistical guidance to reduce the need for personal leave
- Supportive advocacy and communication with your employer for deeper understanding
- Tailored Leadership workshops in your workplace for Supportive Management
- Customised separation and divorce support programs for your broader organisation
Simplify is committed to bolstering your emotional wellbeing and supporting your career while collaborating with your organisation as needed. We are here to reduce your career disruption and support your workplace to better support you.
3 Simple Steps to Simplify and Fast-track your Separation and Divorce
Schedule a no-cost Discovery Call
Breaking through the weeds to focus on the situation and factually communicate informed decisions brings fast, cost effective, and positive results, while avoiding costly mistakes.
Tailor Your Plan and Choose Your Simplified Package
Our passion is to support your chosen legal process with the right non-legal supports at the times you need them the most.
First, we collaborate to create your tailored plan that fits your specific needs and situation.
Next you choose your flexible simplified package to keep you on track towards your best outcomes.
Experience a streamlined journey and feel future ready
Discover how a well-planned journey with continuous expert support can transform your experience and lead to a successful resolution.
Live your fulfilling and thriving life after separation and divorce. We can help you plan that too!
Our clients want you to hear about their transformative Simplify separation and divorce experiences.
Andrea became a pillar of emotional support, helping me build resilience and confidence in myself during moments of doubt and uncertainty. Her coaching to communicate effectively allowed me to navigate the process with the right mindset through to the end. She worked well with my lawyer and kept me focussed and on track.
Andrea is an amazing visionary, who is always striving to go beyond any perceived limitations set by others. I enjoyed working with somebody so dedicated to her purpose and the purpose of others.
In every step of this challenging journey, Andrea was not just a professional guiding me through, she was a compassionate ally who genuinely cared about my well-being. Thanks to her expertise, I emerged from this experience emotionally resilient, and financially savvy.
Because you shouldn’t go this alone
You need the right support to overcome your emotional distress and frustrations and create a plan to prioritise and work through your biggest challenges and blocks. But going this alone with limited non-legal support, or by leaning heavily on family and friends can cost you and your loved one’s time, money, and stress.
Get the experts you need who will support, listen, plan, and closely communicate with you through your entire journey and who will take your problems seriously to help you solve them quickly to achieve your best outcomes.
Choose your experience, reduce the stress, and make your thriving and independent future a faster reality.
Simplify are changing the face of separation and divorce. Join our clients in being a part of this revolution.
The Simplify Separation & Divorce Method
Vision
Define Your Future
Strategy
Plan Your Path
Commitment
Stay the Course
By flexibly integrating these three powerful pillars of the Simplify Separation & Divorce Method -Vision, Strategy and Commitment - you can navigate your separation and divorce with clarity, purpose, and resilience, leading to a successful transition into the next chapterof your lfe.