At Transforming Conflict LLC, the goal is to help you attack the source of the conflict, not each other. Studies demonstrate that parties who are active and feel empowered in resolving their conflict do better emotionally, financially and legally than those who delegate responsibility to the courts.
I provide divorce, adoption, eldercare, family business and other family-related mediation services through a proven problem-solving process.
Many birth parents can now opt for open adoptions, where they maintain contact with their child after adoption becomes final. And that's often a good thing: open adoption helps the child know that he or she is loved by both the birth family and adoptive family and provides the opportunity for each family to be supportive of the other.
Still, open adoption can create quite normal feelings of insecurity, fear, jealousy, and resentment. Facilitative mediators can help both adoptive and birth parents through the emotional and unsettling maze of the adoption process - and beyond.
Disputes that can be mediated include: an open adoption agreement, voluntary termination of parental rights, grandparent or other relative adoption, and foster parent adoption. Post placement and reunion mediation are also provided.