How Am I Different?

I have experience as a divorce and family lawyer and as a child and family therapist with clinical and practical professional experience and training. I am able to build a rapport with the parties and empathize with their circumstances.

I am able to foster a trusting relationship with the parties and create an environment in which the spouses feel safe and secure to communicate with each other during this time of conflict, stress, anxiety and fear of the future.

I understand that divorce is one of the most difficult experiences a person can endure, and how difficult divorce can be for the children. I appreciate the emotional and financial costs a divorce presents to the family unit.

I appreciate and understand the emotional toll a divorce will take on the parties and on their children. I work with the parties toward solutions that best suit their family.

Divorce mediators are often lawyers, psychologists, or therapists, but mediators ­seldom have the legal expertise and the therapeutic training to connect the two disciplines and to create a deeper appreciation for the process.

I understand how to help you frame the context to reach an amicable agreement.

There are frameworks other than the traditional adversarial attorney and Court driven litigation model, in which the legal process dictates the categories of issues to be resolved with Court imposed schedules and rules in which to fight to a resolution.

Many traditional divorce attorneys see the parties' "issues" through their own lenses often clouded with preconceived notions and past cases. I look for solutions rather than issues and think "out of the box" in a creative and insightful manner to help the spouses collaborate and reach resolution.