Free Consultaion: If an agreement is reached, we can outline clear next steps or a formal agreement. We begin with an informal 15 minute conversation to determine if mediation is the right fit for your situation.

Pre-Mediation Preparation: Each party has the opportunity to submit a written statement regarding their perspective and goals ahead of time.

Mediation Session:

We meet in a neutral setting (or agreed location) and work through the conversation together. This may include:

• Joint discussions - each party gets to share their P.O.V.

• Private caucuses (one-on-one conversations) - Parties disclose any additional information in full confidentiality.

• With the option to return to joint session or not

Resolution: If an agreement is reached, we can outline clear next steps or a formal agreement.

• Private and confidential: Avoid public court records and sensitive information being shared openly.
• Cost-effective: Generally less expensive than lengthy court battles.
• Time-efficient: Resolutions can often be reached much faster than through the court system.
• Direct Personal Agency: Provides a space to fully express your perspective.
• Empowering: You maintain control over the outcome, rather than having a judge decide for you.
• Preserve What Matters: Keep integrity of relationships in tact. Mediation prioritizes long-term stability and mutual respect, allowing family and professional bonds to remain intact even through difficult transitions.

Flexible and creative: Solutions can be tailored to your specific needs, unlike the rigid outcomes of court.

This will depend on the type of case you have and the outcome you are seeking. While, in many instances a mediator may be an attorney, the mediator does not represent either party. Mediators and attorneys have different roles. Attorneys represent their clients' interests and advise them on the best way to present their case. Attorneys can discuss with you what may happen in court and the ways to get hoped-for results. In contrast, a mediator acts as a neutral third-party and doesn't give legal advice, even if the mediator is also an attorney. In mediation, you speak for yourself rather than having a lawyer speak for you.

For many people, mediation offers something court often cannot:
a way to resolve conflict while preserving relationships, reducing stress, and maintaining control over the outcome.

Mediation often addresses the emotional component and root of the problem and presents as an opportunity to repair relationships. 

In some cases, people choose to use both—working with a mediator to reach agreements, while consulting an attorney for legal guidance alongside the process.

Mediation can be accomplished virtually or in person. In joint sessions at the start of the mediation, parties will express their p.o.v. Afterwards, mediation sessions break into private caucus, in which parties do not have to see one another again. 

Parties do not have to be in the same room to reach settlement. 

While both parties must sign and agree to mediate before the first session, difficult people in the session will be handled with skillfully  ensuring that environments feel safe and respectuful.

Yes. Mediation is completely confidential. Any information shared in joint session will not be shared outside the table unless permission is given. Additionally, any information shared in private caucus will not be shared with the other party, unless permission is specifically given to the mediator to do so. 

As your Mediator, your consent matters.  I will check in with you throughout the session to ensure your consent, comfortability, and safety. 

Yes.Mediation itself is not legally binding—it’s a voluntary process where both parties work toward an agreement.

One of the key benefits of mediation is that you remain in control of the outcome.

Nothing is decided for you, and you are not bound to anything unless you both agree to it.

Perhaps avoiding a court battle isn’t your primary concern. 
You may simply want to repair and strengthen an important relationship.

If you find yourself stuck in repeating patterns of conflict—
talking in circles, feeling unheard, or unsure how to move forward, 
mediation offers a space designed for more honest, productive conversations.

In this structured environment, you can slow things down,
express what’s really beneath the surface,
and begin to understand each other in a new way.

Whether you are:

• a parent and child caught in ongoing miscommunication and frustration
• partners or spouses navigating recurring arguments or emotional distance
• friends or individuals facing unresolved tension
• or colleagues whose working relationship has become strained

mediation helps shift the dynamic from reactivity to understanding.

A skilled mediator guides the conversation so it doesn’t spiral or shut down, helping each person feel heard while also staying focused on what matters most.

Thereapy and Mediation share a lot of crossove, but serve distinc purposes. Both are interested in exploring the past, but for different purposes. Therapy may often dive deeper into past history, exploring the depths of why one might feel and experience life in the ways they do, whereas mediation is looking at the past as a way to understand how it affects current conflict. Mediation is oritented towards the present and future. It structures conversation in a way that transforms conflict into a set of issues that can be worked through and, ultimately, resolved.

People often turn to mediation in interpersonal relationships when they want to create clear, actionable steps for moving forward.

The mediator never creates solutions for you, but guides conversation to allow both parties to reach their own agreements. 

For interpersonal relationships, mediation has the power to transform relationships, refresh perspective, restore communication and strengthen connection. It provides a live model for navigating heightened emotions and conflict with honesty, clarity, and mutual respect.

The informal container of mediation often helps people to address conflcit collaboratively, and shows you what is possible when you engage conflict directly rather than avoid or escalate it.