Riverdale Mediation provides experienced and effective conflict resolution services. We are:

• Mediators of family, civil, education, health, criminal, and community disputes
• Facilitators of small and multi-party meetings
• Arbitrators of family law cases
• Dispute resolution process consultants to private and government clients
• Teachers and trainers for lawyers, mediators, arbitrators, mental health professionals, educators and business owners, providing courses and workshops in:
  1. Basic and advanced family mediation
  2. Negotiation and mediation: theory and skills
  3. Effective conflict resolution skills in the workplace
  4. Screening for power imbalances and domestic violence in mediation and arbitration
  5. Family law for mental health professionals
  6. Restorative justice conferencing processes
  7. Arbitration law and process.

Why family mediation?

Every separating couple should consider mediation before resorting to the more expensive options of collaborative law or lawyer-negotiation, and certainly before litigation.

Mediation is not only a more affordable way to have the necessary but difficult conversations that separating couples must have. It also allows people to negotiate — in a fair, safe, balanced and well-informed process — outcomes that address all issues, in a way that meets their needs and those of their children.