Mediation for Individuals and Families

Divorce Mediation

If you need this service, we will recognize the trauma associated with divorce and offer a calm, reassuring environment (with or without the other spouse present—depending on your preference).  We help you sort through how to fairly distribute assets, determine alimony, child support, custody, child visitation, etc.

Sometimes a divorce is necessary. When this is true, things go better if you are willing to accept that everyone needs to compromise, maintain civility, and communicate clearly.

Mediation to Support Children During Divorce

If you need this service, we will discuss the emotional difficulties facing children of divorce and how you can help support your child’s grief journey, while simultaneously tending to your own emotional needs. 

When a marriage ends, the former marriage partners still must relate effectively as parents. Children of divorce do better emotionally when their parents get along. Unless abuse is an issue, children do best when they have easy access to both parents and when their parents give them permission to love the other parent.

During and after divorce, children grieve for the family that is now lost to them. Almost all would like their parents to reunite, and most also feel that they are at least partly to blame for their parents’ divorce. Adjusting to divorce becomes a grief journey. As they mature, their attitudes and beliefs about their parents' divorce also evolve, ideally in ways that support their long-term emotional health.  

Children do best during a divorce with supportive, empathetic parents who recognize the child’s grief and offer consistent emotional support.

Mediation for Elder Care

If you need this service, we offer a supportive environment where family members can come to terms with their parents’ situation and find solutions they can agree on that will be in the best interests of all involved.

Making decisions about care for aging parents can be agonizing—particularly when family members don’t agree. Parents often believe decisions about their care should be theirs alone, and are especially vulnerable facing the prospects of decreasing independence.