Parents and teens. Many family issues that contribute to family stress and despair do not require family therapy or counseling to be resolved. Family members, sitting down with a mediator, can develop creative solutions to the tough issues of curfews, home, school and work responsibilities, and privileges. Mediation can help the family ease a very emotional period of family development. Open adoption agreements.
Children flourish when the important folks in their lives handle conflict constructively.
A mediator can help adoptive and biological parents develop ground rules and visiting plans that are in the best interest of the child. Married and intimate couples. People are constantly growing and personal needs and dreams change. Divorced parents facing changing circumstances. When circumstances arise that require modification of child support, parenting arrangements or other agreements made in the original divorce decree, a re-negotiation of current needs through mediation is less traumatic for families, especially the children, than an appearance in family court.