About Starting Point
Guiding You Through Every Facet of Divorce
Divorce Can Be an Emotional, Legal, and Financial Maze
Whether you're caught off guard or seeking strategic direction during or after the divorce process, Starting Point offers multi-faceted support tailored to your unique needs.
We bring specialized expertise in these critical areas
Certified Divorce Coaching
We educate you on the complexities of the divorce process, assist you in organizing legal and financial documents and help you create co-parenting and future plans for your next chapter.
Rule 31 Family Mediation
Our role as a neutral third party helps you reach equitable agreements on contentious issues, thereby reducing the emotional and financial strain of court litigation. Trained in domestic violence and financial/emotional abuse, we aim for a resolution that respects all parties involved.
Real Estate Services: Research & Expertise
We specialize in all aspects of real estate involved in a divorce. From locating and providing accurate property valuations to offering assessments on the financial impact of keeping versus selling the family home - you will be prepared for your best decisions.
Parenting Plans & Co-Parenting Communication
We’ll work with you to explore parenting arrangements that support your family’s needs today—and evolve with them tomorrow. Together, we’ll outline practical, child-focused solutions you can bring to your attorney with confidence. Whether you're just beginning the process or refining an existing plan, our goal is to help you communicate clearly, reduce conflict, and build a foundation for successful co-parenting.
By working with us, you’re investing in an informed, streamlined, and less contentious divorce process. Our clients report savings thousands in overall divorce costs and emotional frustration because we ensure that you are prepared and know what you want and need. Our goal is to guide you through the emotions and overwhelm, educate you on the legal and financial intricacies (without giving legal advice), refer you to the right resources and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you as a thinking partner, trained advisor, and your attorney’s respected aid.
Your Path, Your Future
Together, we'll co-create a life plan that aligns with your values and aspirations, supported by a financial plan with one of our partners that sets you up for long-term success. We stay connected well after the divorce is finalized to ensure that your future and goals are achieved.
Transformations We Celebrate
Watching our clients rebuild and thrive is simply miraculous! We remain AMAZED and OVERJOYED by the progress and growth each of our families have achieved and celebrate each milestone with you.
The Story Behind Starting Point:
A Journey from Brokenness to Purpose
Keri Gwynne has walked the challenging path you are on. Everyone’s story is unique, but some challenges are universal.
In the depths of her own story, Keri faced debilitating PTSD symptoms and a compromised memory from concussions due to a life overshadowed by fear and overwhelming uncertainty. Once a strong, athletic, and successful woman and mom, she became a shadow of her former self. The emotional and physical toll of the marriage was so profound that even medical experts could not promise a return to normalcy. Yet, it was her unwavering faith in God that became her anchor.
Amidst this life upheaval, and facing the profound spiritual shame especially prevalent in the Bible Belt where contemplating divorce can feel like a cardinal sin even in abusive marriages, Keri yearned for a guiding spirit to walk alongside her. Through hours of prayer and writing came God’s mission on her life, to ensure that no one has to navigate the maze of separation and divorce alone. Those reflective moments transformed into a structured guide designed not only to protect individuals financially and legally, but also to help them survive and thrive emotionally and spiritually through the tumultuous phases of divorce.
Fast forward to early 2018, Starting Point Divorce Advocacy, LLC was born. Seemingly by divine orchestration, the company began to flourish. Today, we collaborate with leading attorneys, licensed therapists, child psychologists, and financial experts in Nashville, Middle TN, and around the nation to help create a tailored team of experts for you. We are committed to being your beacon and guide through any stage of separation or divorce.
We are also working to expand our reach through our initiative, Star Properties, which specializes in real estate transactions, providing another layer of expertise in divorce care.
Keri’s hope and mission are far-reaching. She aspires to prevent more marriages from breaking than the number she helps dissolve. Life has its peaks and valleys, and it is clear now that her struggles were not in vain. Her deep faith, personal divorce season, and skills as a business professional and writer equipped her for this chapter of service. Just as her story has served a greater purpose, so can yours.
Business Partner and Advocate
Sadira Salvo has joined the Starting Point Divorce Advocacy team. She is both a former Starting Point client and a trauma-informed practitioner and CDC Divorce Coach® in training. She is a certified Level 1, 2, and 3 Murray Method® Practitioner.
Sadira never saw herself divorced. She spent five years in counseling with her husband, believing in restoration. She was blindsided by the double life, adultery, and porn addiction quietly unraveling her marriage. When the truth surfaced after twenty-three years, her body entered shock. She developed PTSD, tremors, hormonal collapse, early menopause, and significant metabolic disruption. Her nervous system carried what her heart had just learned. Her faith became the place she stood when everything else fell away.
Through mentors, prayer, obedience, and long seasons of interior work, God began redeeming what had been broken. What once felt like loss became formation. Over time, her health stabilized, her strength returned, she lost weight, and she is no longer diabetic. Her lived experience, discipline, and understanding shape the steadiness and clarity she brings to others walking similar roads.
Sadira personally navigated betrayal trauma and major life transition with the support of Keri Gwynne and the Starting Point team. This experiential depth informs her work today. In her role at Starting Point, she leverages Murray Method® tools to support emotional stability, relational clarity, and grounded internal authority as individuals work toward becoming Healthy Balanced Persons.
She collaborates with coaches and mental health professionals, and works with Marilyn Murray, creator of the Murray Method®, a world-renowned framework for understanding trauma, abuse, neglect, and deprivation. Sadira is a Six Sigma Black Belt and is certified in Myers-Briggs, Crucial Conversations®, Crucial Confrontations®, and Influencer communication frameworks. Prior to her work in personal transformation, she served as a corporate and global quality and food safety leader at Mars Inc.
