ABOUT GWENDOLINE
I built Artemis
for the guidance
I wish I'd had.
Artemis is divorce support for women leaving difficult, unequal, or controlling marriages — with clarity, strategy, and someone who understands the terrain.
CDC Certified Divorce Coach®
OACP Member
DV & Trauma-Informed
Portland, OR
Virtual Everywhere
BEFORE
I was grey and lifeless. Extinguished. I barely recognized myself in the mirror.
I was inside a marriage that had slowly, quietly hollowed me out. I had lost the thread back to myself, to the mother I wanted my kids to know.
Breaking up my family felt worse than succumbing to a slow internal death. I told myself happiness could wait. That I could manage. That this was just what marriage looked like.
Until I couldn't anymore.
Until I realized no one was coming. I had to find my own way out — and through.
THE TURN
No one was coming to rescue me.
I had to rescue myself.
Fear, it turns out, is not always a whisper of what not to do — but is, instead, indicative of the magnitude of the transformation that awaits.
AFTER
Leaving was terrifying. It also set me free.
The divorce was brutal. The process was complicated. There were moments I didn't know how I would get through.
But I did.
I came out the other side knowing something I couldn't have known before — that the woman who goes through this comes out larger. Fuller. More herself than she's been in years. A radiant badass.
That's what I'm building toward for every client — the depth, foresight, and guidance I wish I'd had.
THE PRACTICE
Why I built Artemis.
I went through my own difficult marriage and divorce. I know the invisible weight of it. The way it distorts your sense of normal. How hard it is to relay what you actually lived through to the professionals entrusted with getting you through.
So I built it.
My approach is strategic and compassionate. I see what's underneath the presenting crisis — and hold the complete picture: emotional, legal, financial, relational.
You won't spend our first session convincing me. I know what you're up against. Together, we'll chart a course forward that holds the process and the reality at the same time.
What I Bring
The lenses I work through beyond the credentials: