Divorce and custody mediation: Mediating the difficult issues that divorcing families often confront can preserve healthy co-parenting relationships, benefiting all members of the family.  

Post-divorce mediation: Our mediators can help divorced parents negotiate their children's developmental changes or other issues, such as step-parenting, that occur in the years after divorce.

Parent/child conflict mediation: Mediation can provide support to both children and parents and can model respectful communication, boundary setting, and negotiation skills.

While family conflict is normal, certain life situations naturally increase stress and friction. Families face their own high-intensity periods tied to specific events. It's during these high-stress junctures that the guidance of a neutral professional can be particularly beneficial. Therapeutic Mediation combines elements of mediation (consensus building, collaborative goal setting, and creative conflict engagement) with therapeutic coaching (individual emotional support, learning more about areas where individuals might be “stuck”, and examination of interpersonal dynamics that get in the way of reaching shared goals) to support people dealing with deep divides, estrangement, transitions, difficult decisions, and/or communication challenges.

Family Mediation: Therapeutic family mediation is a great alternative to traditional therapy. Therapeutic mediation is a process that combines mediation techniques with therapeutic approaches to help individuals or couples resolve conflicts and address underlying emotional issues. It goes beyond simply resolving disputes and aims to foster healing and positive transformation in relationships.

The goal of mediation isn't just to reach an agreement, but to foster:

• Deeper Understanding: Helping participants understand their own emotions and perspectives, as well as those of the other party.

• Improved Communication: Facilitating healthier, more constructive ways to talk about difficult issues.

• Emotional Processing: Providing a safe space to acknowledge and work through the feelings associated with the conflict.

• Sustainable Solutions: Crafting agreements that address both the practical issues and the emotional needs, making them more likely to last.