I’m Jennifer Hershon, founder of The Estrangement Coach and Beyond the Break, where I support parents as they navigate the grief, uncertainty, and emotional aftermath of family estrangement.

My path to this work began long before coaching. With a background in nursing and healthcare leadership, I spent years supporting people through complex and deeply human circumstances. Later, when estrangement entered my own life, I came to understand the particular grief of loving someone who is still living, but no longer present in your life.

That experience changed the direction of my work.

Today, I support parents navigating estrangement with compassion, honesty, and practical tools for rebuilding steadiness and self-trust. My coaching is grounded in the understanding that healing does not require denying the loss, assigning blame, or forcing reconciliation. It begins by helping you find your footing again inside a life that has changed.

I hold a Master of Science in Nursing and am a Registered Nurse and ICF Certified Coach. I am certified in Grief Counseling and Mindset Coaching, with additional training in emotional trauma and resilience, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Time Line Therapy, hypnotherapy, and Mindset Dimensions. I have trained with Dr. Joshua Coleman and facilitated estrangement support groups for more than six years.

I am also the author of Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Estrangement, Loss Without Closure, and the Work of Living On, a memoir and practical guide drawn from both lived experience and years of work in the estrangement field.

My work is not therapy. It is a grounded coaching relationship for parents who are ready to move beyond survival mode and begin living forward with greater clarity, resilience, and self-trust.