Sarah Rutledge Fischer

Sarah Rutledge Fischer is an attorney, mediator, divorce coach, artist, and advocate for people navigating life's most profound transitions.

After coming out as a lesbian at 43 following an 18-year marriage, Sarah found herself walking a path that remains largely invisible in public conversation: rebuilding a life, a family, and a sense of self after years of living out of alignment with her deepest truth. That experience transformed both her personal life and her professional mission.

Today, Sarah specializes in helping women who come out later in life navigate divorce, identity shifts, family transitions, and the often-overlooked emotional terrain between who they have been and who they are becoming. As a mediator and divorce coach, she is passionate about helping people move through separation with greater humanity, compassion, and self-respect, avoiding the unnecessary harm of adversarial divorce whenever possible.

Drawing on her background in law, mediation, the arts, and her own lived experience, Sarah helps people cross life's thresholds with courage, clarity, and a deeper connection to themselves.