A Divorce Guide For Women: Oona Metz
Oona Metz discusses her new book 'Unhitched,' exploring the emotional journey of divorce, handling grief, and supporting children through separation. She shares expert advice on navigating complex family dynamics, boundaries, and finding hope after divorce.
Oona Metz, LICSW, psychotherapist, author, educator, and founder of a national training program for mental healthprofessionals.
Oona has spent over 30 years supportingwomen through some of the most defining, identity-shaping transitions of their lives. She is the creator of the Divorce Grief Model, a groundbreaking framework that gives women a language and a roadmap for the emotional journey of divorce — something that had never truly existed in the mental-health field. Her forthcoming book, Unhitched:The Essential Divorce Guide for Women (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, January 2026), brings this work to a wide audience and reframes divorce as a moment of profound self-leadership, resilience, and reinvention.
Beyond her clinical work, Oona is the founderof The Beacon Group Fellowship, a national training initiativeshaping the next generation of therapists. She has spent decades mentoring clinicians, advocating for women’s emotional wellbeing, and changing how the field understands relationships, attachment, and identity.
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Unhitched:The Essential Divorce Guide for Women