Knowing the basics might elevate the guidance you provide.
Here’s a quick rundown:
✅ Voluntary & Confidential – A neutral mediator facilitates, ensuring both voices are heard in a safe space.
✅ Structured Yet Flexible – An experienced mediator adapts the process to the couple’s communication style and conflict level, using multiple sessions to clarify issues and build agreements.
✅ Not Therapy, But Healing – Mediation helps reduce conflict and fosters cooperation, boosting mental well-being.
Therapists are key in navigating the emotional storm of divorce. Understanding mediation lets you equip clients with insight, set clear expectations, and steer them toward resolution.
How do you see mediation fitting into your work? I’d love to hear your thoughts—connect with me!
Beryl McNeill is a Calgary divorce lawyer who strongly believes mutual respect and understanding go a long way toward resolving family law matters. As a Registered Collaborative Law practitioner in Calgary, she has dedicated her firm to amicable, cooperative negotiation as a means for settling divorces. Furthermore, throughout her law career, Beryl has seen the costs of adversarial negotiations, both financial and emotional. In emphasizing the collaborative approach, Beryl offers her clients a more efficient model that preserves personal and monetary assets alike.
More and more individuals are attracted to resolving their family law matters in a civil, respectful way. Therefore, they come to Beryl from many walks of life—as professionals in the oil and gas industry and their spouses, business owners, and working spouses with children. Clients say that even after a single consultation with Beryl they feel less stressed and more clear about the way forward.
Beryl understands the often fearful, emotional early stages of divorce. Incorporating skills developed from her training as a life coach, Beryl helps clients move beyond their stress response to more logical, creative thinking. Once there, she works with clients to discover what’s truly important to them in attaining divorce. Furthermore, she encourages clients to picture what a successful settlement would look like a year or more down the road as a means of focusing on their goals. By educating and empowering clients, Beryl seeks to transform the way they resolve family disputes—in a more constructive, intelligent and amicable way than would be possible otherwise.
Finally, Beryl is very active with the Family Bar and the Collaborative Law Community. Her involvement provides her clients with the assurance that she has her finger on the pulse of Family Law in Alberta, offering them a distinct advantage in their quest for equity and civility.