Katie VandenBerg is a CDC Certified Divorce Coach® based in Morton, Illinois, who helps people navigate divorce with strategy, calm, and a clear head. Her work spans the full arc of the process — pre-filing preparation, legal proceedings, co-parenting plans, and financial untangling — with a steady focus on protecting clients from costly mistakes made in moments of emotional overwhelm.
She came to coaching through her own experience. After a painful divorce from her high school sweetheart, Katie realized she'd needed strategic guidance she never had. Years of informally helping friends through their own Central Illinois divorces led her to earn her CDC certification and build a formal practice around it.
Katie's local fluency is a real differentiator. She understands the courts in Tazewell, Peoria, and McLean counties, and the particular texture of small-town divorce — the social scrutiny, agricultural and corporate assets, and tight-knit community dynamics that generic coaches can't speak to. Clients describe her as knowledgeable, warm, and genuinely present through the whole messy middle.