Our Team
Danielle Black
Principal Coach & Director
Since 2020 I have established myself as a respected child-focused and strategic authority in the post-separation space.
Having navigated my own complex separation, and guided hundreds of clients to successful outcomes, I utilise the solid foundation of my evidence-based Post-Separation Parenting Blueprint™ to provide support and strategies that prioritise children's safety and development over outdated ideology and assumptions about adult concepts of “fairness”. I specialise in helping protective parents to optimise the outcome for themselves and their children, and support clients to navigate situations that other professionals don't properly address. This includes supporting parents to prepare for meetings with report writers and single expert witnesses.
I work with parents navigating the most complex, high-conflict, and strategically demanding situations.
This includes supervised or no-contact arrangements, relocation, sole parental responsibility, and child refusal dynamics.
I am a mother of four children, and love spending time with my family when I’m not helping clients to protect theirs.
Trudie Hargrave
Senior Coach
My approach to coaching is both strategic and holistic, using the Post-Separation Parenting Blueprint™ as the foundation that underpins my 1:1 coaching work.
I provide clients with guidance, direct them to resources and tools in the Blueprint, and walk beside them every step of the way as they navigate what is one of the hardest things they will ever experience.
I’m here to help you understand the options open to you on your journey, and I specialise in helping clients understand the realities of the court system and post-separation co-parenting - including the realities of co-parenting after achieving parenting orders. I am also passionate about supporting families with neurodivergent or additional-needs children, and with preparation for trial-related processes including cross-examination.
I am a mother of three children, and I have extensive lived experience of high-conflict separation, divorce and co-parenting. This includes lived experience of the court system, legal aid, and optimising my court outcome.
Brigid Morgan
Senior Coach
My approach to coaching is trauma-informed, neuro-affirming, and nervous-system aware, with a supportive, empathetic, and grounded focus. I work holistically and strategically, supporting clients to stay connected to their values and wellbeing while navigating complex parenting dynamics and building long-term capacity under sustained stress.
I specialise in supporting parents navigating shared parenting without formal court orders, who want to prioritise their child’s developmental needs in informed, intentional, and sustainable ways. This includes supporting parents to parent protectively, maintain appropriate boundaries, and make defensible, evidence-based, genuinely child-first decisions, while minimising unnecessary conflict and protecting their own emotional and mental health.
Working within the Post-Separation Parenting Blueprint™ and Danielle Black’s coaching framework, I bring deep experiential understanding shaped by professional training and lived experience. Originally from New York USA, and now an Australian citizen, I understand the additional complexity that separation and co-parenting can involve for expat parents - particularly the experience of navigating high-stress family transitions while extended family and long-standing support networks are based overseas.
My work is also informed by lived experience navigating high-conflict separation as the primary caregiver to a neurodivergent child. In addition, I have over seven years of lived addiction recovery experience and support clients who are concerned about their own relationship with substances or habits, or who are navigating addiction or dysregulation in the other parent, with a strong focus on boundaries, insight, and self-protection.
From early separation, through to final outcomes, and life after separation - the team at Danielle Black Coaching has been there, and done that. Our aim is to support our clients in feeling steadier, less alone, better informed, and more capable of making grounded decisions that prioritise the wellbeing of both their children and themselves.
We’ve helped hundreds of Australian protective parents, just like you, to optimise their outcomes - protecting themselves and their children - with holistic ‘in the trenches’ support, and the kind of insight and strategy that only comes from having experienced separation, and ‘the system’, firsthand.
We’d love to help you too.
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Starting here first (either before booking a 1:1 call or group experience, or after booking while you’re waiting for your first session) means:
Immediate access to frameworks and tools (available now)
Work at your own pace through relevant modules
Book a 1:1 coaching session or group experience if/when you need personalised guidance
Arrive at your first session with your coach with increased clarity and specific questions
Receive $500 credit toward any coaching package of your choice if you later choose to invest in more intensive 1:1 coaching support
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