About Us​

South Orange County Mediation implements a dual mediator model that is highly successful in reaching fair and satisfying agreements for their clients. The dual mediator model is more conducive to the fact finding, sharing, and brainstorming elements of the mediation process. It integrates the interests, needs, and concerns of the parties by providing two perspectives and two active listeners that help the parties move beyond emotion to identify and address the complexities of family/relational conflict, while balancing the interests of the parties.

While many attorney mediators are concerned exclusively with the law, they may not be highly trained in interpersonal relationships, conflict resolution, or redefining family relationships from married people to single people and co-parents, or from independent elders to elders in transition. Many therapist mediators are concerned primarily with the interpersonal dynamics of families, having little training and practical hands on experience with mediating the division of property, support and financial issues.