Mediation for Couples, Partners, and Families
Support without committing to open-ended therapy or the legal process.
Structured conversations to navigate conflict, make decisions, and move forward. Restore communication when conflict or confusion has taken over. You can slow the conversation down, rebuild understanding, and decide what comes next with calm and intention.
Here’s how one client described it: “Not therapy, not lawyers: a middle lane for couples”
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I’m a relationship mediator uniquely qualified to help you with your relationships. I have professional, graduate-level, mental health training with specialized experience in couples and relationship dynamics. Relationship mediation for couples drawing on decades of professional and lived experience to meet you with compassion and care.
I work with “pairs” of all kinds: partners, co-parents, parent–adult child, adult siblings, friends, colleagues.
Mediation & Resolution
Short-term, neutral, facilitated sessions that help you talk through issues, reduce conflict, and find workable agreements.
Communicating
Improve communication, repair patterns, and get unstuck—whether you stay together, separate, or simply need clarity.
A structured, conversation-based process for adults navigating change or distance
Decision-Making
A values-based process to help you make clear decisions about your relationships, living arrangements, boundaries, or next steps.
• “Should we stay together?”
• “How do we separate respectfully?”
• “How do we move forward as co-parents?”
A compassionate approach to communication, conflict, and connection
In-person in Athens, Ohio by appointment • Online anywhere in the U.S.

From my Journal
On Communication, Connection, and Repair
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“Not therapy, not lawyers”
A clear, practical space between therapy and legal action
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What I learned about relationships from old textiles
How old fabric relates to our lives and relationships today.
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Mediation skills for therapists
A guide for therapists to help turn conflict into connection.
