Blended Family Success NZ About Adele

About Adele

Adele Cornish is an Author, Couples Therapist, Blended Family Coach, and Presenter. She has spent 20 years utilising her social work background to extensively research and address the unique challenges blended families face.

Adele has used her knowledge and her experience to develop a programme that has taught practical skills and strategies to thousands of couples worldwide, equipping them to overcome common obstacles to blended family success. She has appeared several times on television (the Good Morning Show TV1, Choice TV and Cafe TV3) and radio speaking about blended families, authored books, written magazine feature articles.

Adele is part of a blended family. She is a biological mother of three boys and has been a stepmother for over thirty years. Adele brings wise insight and compassion to this subject based on her personal and professional knowledge and experience.

Adele offers you...

Blended Family Coaching: This is goal orientated and action-focused to enable positive and immediate change in your family. It gives you the opportunity to discuss the issues you're facing and receive advice, support, accountability and direction for the way ahead. You and your partner can take part together or you can receive coaching on your own.

EFT Couples Therapy: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples will help you feel more connected to your partner. It enables you to understand and change negative patterns that cause distance or conflict in your relationship, while making it easier to share your deeper feelings in a safe way. EFT is one of the most scientifically researched and evidence based approaches to couples therapy with a high success rate.

Adele and her husband Mike run seminars and workshops sharing their knowledge with couples and professionals on how to blend successfully.

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Adele Cornish

BSW, NZCEFT, MSWRB

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Thousands of families world wide have benefited from Adele’s work. Now you can too!

Thank you for what you do and for sharing it with us… you may not know but you are making a huge impact on me and my family. Your words and advice is priceless.

Vicki Robinson

My wife and I enjoy your emails and discuss the topics. We are both in a second marriage and have 5 children between us. We have taken a lot from your emails and I personally have taken a lot on board. Thank you.

Paul Mckay

I find your emails encouraging and helpful. You have a very special gift and we are so blessed to have you help us cope and handle the difficulties of blending families. Thanks again for all your help, words and compassion. Keep it coming.

Pat Kelley, California

This has been an incredible resource. Thank you for helping me save my marriage. You probably underestimate the magnitude of your positive impact on such an enormously complicated issue. I don’t think I would have been able to do this on my own.

Catherine, USA

At times it is really tough. There are also good times. Your ideas and strategies have helped me get though the tough times and are helping me deal with issues. I thank you again.

ML, Australia

“Thanks for all of your help and articles. They have helped me become a better person, husband, and step father.”

Karl, USA

Check out this live interview with Adele on Brunch TV discussing what the blending process is all about

Professional Development Training

Adele and Mike have run several professional development training courses for organisations such at the New Zealand Association of Counsellors, Skylight Trust, NZ Kindergarten Association and others. These workshops are aimed at professionals working with blended families such as counsellors, social workers, psychologists, school staff, health professionals and clinicians. Focus is on equipping professionals with insights and strategies to assist them to effectively support children and couples living in a stepfamily.

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You'll receive an email from Adele which you can reply to plus her free report: 3 Crucial Mistakes Causing Step Family Breakup, & How to Avoid Them

Blended Family
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About Adele

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Thank you for what you do and for sharing it with us… you may not know but you are making a huge impact on me and my family. Your words and advice is priceless.

My wife and I enjoy your emails and discuss the topics. We are both in a second marriage and have 5 children between us. We have taken a lot from your emails and I personally have taken a lot on board. Thank you.

I find your emails encouraging and helpful. You have a very special gift and we are so blessed to have you help us cope and handle the difficulties of blending families. Thanks again for all your help, words and compassion. Keep it coming.

This has been an incredible resource. Thank you for helping me save my marriage. You probably underestimate the magnitude of your positive impact on such an enormously complicated issue. I don’t think I would have been able to do this on my own.

At times it is really tough. There are also good times. Your ideas and strategies have helped me get though the tough times and are helping me deal with issues. I thank you again.

“Thanks for all of your help and articles. They have helped me become a better person, husband, and step father.”

Professional Development Training

© 2025 Adele Cornish. Blended Family Success NZ. All rights reserved.
Warning: The information in this website is not intended as a substitute for a professional consultation.

Blended Family Success!

About Adele

As seen on...

Thank you for what you do and for sharing it with us… you may not know but you are making a huge impact on me and my family. Your words and advice is priceless.

My wife and I enjoy your emails and discuss the topics. We are both in a second marriage and have 5 children between us. We have taken a lot from your emails and I personally have taken a lot on board. Thank you.

I find your emails encouraging and helpful. You have a very special gift and we are so blessed to have you help us cope and handle the difficulties of blending families. Thanks again for all your help, words and compassion. Keep it coming.

This has been an incredible resource. Thank you for helping me save my marriage. You probably underestimate the magnitude of your positive impact on such an enormously complicated issue. I don’t think I would have been able to do this on my own.

At times it is really tough. There are also good times. Your ideas and strategies have helped me get though the tough times and are helping me deal with issues. I thank you again.

“Thanks for all of your help and articles. They have helped me become a better person, husband, and step father.”

Professional Development Training

© 2025 Adele Cornish. Blended Family Success NZ. All rights reserved. Warning: The information in this website is not intended as a substitute for a professional consultation.

Blended Family
Success!

© 2025 Adele Cornish. Blended Family Success NZ. All rights reserved.
Warning: The information in this website is not intended as a substitute for a professional consultation.