The underlying ethic of our practice is to build trust in relationships. People come for Family Mediation seeking assistance with disputes, differences of opinions, help with decision-making about future direction of relationships, children and elder's lives and to solve problems and resolve conflicts.
Many come for Divorce, Couples, or Family Mediation. Others come for Individual, Couples or Family Psychotherapy. Helps divorcing/separating couples design creative living arrangement for, and talk with their children about divorce; helps them buy-out, sell, or hold their real estate together for a time.
Many come for Divorce, Couples, or Family Mediation. Others come for Individual, Couples or Family Psychotherapy. Helps divorcing/separating couples design creative living arrangement for, and talk with their children about divorce; helps them buy-out, sell, or hold their real estate together for a time.
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Janet graduated from Simmons College School of Social Work in 1972, with a degree in clinical psychiatric social work. During this time she obtained certification as a Family Therapist from the Boston Family Institute. Her undergraduate studies were in political science, psychology and anthropology.
Divorce Mediation stands in strong contrast to the traditional divorce process in which each member of a couple hires a divorce attorney to litigate or negotiate for him or her the terms of the Separation/Divorce Agreement. Divorce Mediation saves time and cost and prevents conflict for all members of the family.
Unlike Marriage Counseling or Couples Therapy, which have broader goals, Couples Mediation is for addressing a discrete topic, a specific goal or question. Shall we have our son live in a residential apartment with others his age or continue to live at home?. Shall we sue the doctors who gave her mother an overdose of methadone which caused brain damage?.
Unlike Family Therapy, which has broader goals, Family Mediation usually has a discrete topic, a specific goal or question. Sisters want their brother who molested all of them as teenagers to apologize and have healing of the family begin. Grandparents want to understand why their daughter and her husband want them to have such limited involvement with their grandchildren.
Clients and their mediators or psychotherapists typically describe marriage counseling or couples therapy as a forum to address issues of faulty communication, parenting, finances, lack of emotional and physical intimacy. The outcome is hoped to be the creation or re-creation of healthy, even thriving relationships and family.
Reviews (6)
Mary O'Quinn
Jan 06, 2020
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Bernhard Suhm
Oct 04, 2019
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Janet was not effective as a mediator for us, we ended up cutting our losses and switching to legal counsel combined with conciliation. She may be fine if all you need more than someone mostly passively listening, and occasionally offering some explanation of how the divorce laws work, but is that worth $300+/hr to you? While I kept (tentatively) offering concessions, some of them substantial (like co-owning the marital home for several years while maintaining the mortgage in my sole name, thus effectively preventing me from getting any significant new mortgage), my wife didn't offer anything in
Greg O'Quinn
Sep 02, 2019
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Janet helped a family member and I through a very difficult decision. We were in a business partnership where decisions, compromises, and understandings were not heard by either party. Janet listened to our concerns, our struggles, and helped us create a measurable plan that we both agreed on.
Janet was patient, warm-hearted, and caring mediator that sympathized with both parties. She knew how to encourage us to explain what the rationale around each other's point of views were, helped us understand the other side of the story, and set a goal before the next meeting.
Janet was fantastic, i would
Janet was patient, warm-hearted, and caring mediator that sympathized with both parties. She knew how to encourage us to explain what the rationale around each other's point of views were, helped us understand the other side of the story, and set a goal before the next meeting.
Janet was fantastic, i would
Daniel Oquinn
Aug 15, 2019
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Jen L.
Apr 01, 2018
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Unfortunately, we did not have a good experience. Janet changed her hourly rates after our initial phone consultation, charged over 1000 more than the agreed maximum amount while asking for more before we finally walked away from our loss, did not mediate the one issue we needed mediation on (we agreed on nearly everything except for one issue) and in fact did not do any work to resolve our key issue, and gave us a "final" document with countless mistakes from simple editing issues like duplicative paragraphs to misquoting financials and agreements we had discussed with her or given
Todd W.
Dec 10, 2017
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