About Susan

Pease Gadoua

Susan Pease Gadoua is the co-author of, The New I Do, Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (Seal Press, 2014). She is the author of the San Francisco Chronicle best-seller, Contemplating Divorce, A Step-by-Step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go (New Harbinger, 2008), and Stronger Day by Day, Reflections for Healing and Rebuilding After Divorce (New Harbinger, 2010).

Susan is a licensed therapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area with expertise in helping couples connect, reconnect or disconnect in a healthy way. Susan founded the concept of the Parenting Marriage in 2006 when she began helping couples shape a workable alternative to divorce. Since then, Susan has helped dozens of couples transition their marriage from a love-based union to one in which raising happy, healthy kids are the primary focus.

Susan has appeared on television, radio and in print, including The CBS Early Show and A View From the Bay, and publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, Psychology Today, Divorce Magazine, Divorce360, The Modern Woman’s Divorce Guide and Responsible Divorce.  Susan writes regularly for Huffington Post, Thrive Global, and PsychologyToday.com.

In addition to her writing and local private practice, Susan provides client consultations via Zoom or phone. She also trains therapists in implementing Parenting Marriages with their clients as well as teaching therapists about divorce using the program she developed, Phoenix Method for Divorce Recovery TM. 

Susan lives with her husband, two dogs, three goats and four chickens in Sonoma County, California.