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Special Skills or Services:
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Family mediation; interviewing children; parent education; extensive experience working with children, adolescents and families in transition.
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Fees and Expenses:
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Mediations and ‘Hear the Child’ Interviews - $150.00 per hour, plus tax; Coaching and Consultations - $75.00 per hour, plus tax
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Year Began Mediating:
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2006
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Areas of Practice Experience:
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Blended Families, Child Custody/Guardianship/Access, Child Support/Maintenance, Co-parenting Agreements, Financial Aspects of Separation, Parenting Arrangements and Education, Parenting Plans, Step-parenting
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Mediator's Comments:
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I am a Certified Family Relations Mediator practicing a strength-based, child-inclusive approach to working with families. My focus on respectful communication and listening skills encourages clients to work collaboratively towards mutually beneficial solutions and optimal parenting arrangements. For eleven years I was a child and family counsellor working in partnership with the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) social workers, psychologists and mental health professionals. During this time I provided children and families with crisis-intervention, support, counselling, coaching, and advocacy services. I am a member of the Victoria Collaborative Family Law Group (CFL), the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), and Family Mediation Canada (FMC).
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