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We provide certified mediators specializing in family mediation, narrative mediation and peace education.
We also work collaboratively with therapists and lawyers to develop an appropriate team for you to work through your conflict constructively. We encourage understanding differences as an opportunity for growth. Conflict is an invitation for change, and mindfulness a tool for finding appropriate means of resolving conflict.
 Roberta Morris, M.Div., Ph.D.
Dr. Morris does civil, community and family
mediations. She works with both healthy and
with troubled families who learn conflict resolution
skills through mediation before conflicts spin out of
control.
She serves on the first and second tier LA Superior Court mediation panels and on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission mediation panel.
Her practice includes:
Dr. Morris is currently producing the resource Artful Mediation, compiling best practices that draw upon the many gifts people bring to the table as they find means to resolve their own conflicts. Concerned that some traditional mediation practices privilege linguistically gifted people, Artful Mediation utilizes people's kinetic, visual, dramatic, even musical gifts as means of expressing and resolving conflict.
Morris wrote the book Ending Violence in Families, and ran training workshops for clergy and lay people in prevention of sexual and domestic violence. She has also worked with persons with various cognitive and psychiatric disabilities throughout her career and serves clients with accommodation issues.
You can arrange a phone consultation with Dr. Morris at a reduced hourly rate or contact her at artfulmediation@gmail.com for information about online consultations.
Dr. Morris works with a number of specialists in a collaborative law model for separation and divorce. For more information contact her by phone or email artfulmediation@gmail.com
DOVE PRESSNALL
For the past fifteen years, Dove has been providing supportive services to individuals and families from a variety of backgrounds.
She completed her Masters degree in Marital, Child, and Family Therapy in June 1999 and has been a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 2001.
After several years in private practice, she went to work in Liberia, West Africa with survivors of civil war. There she learned invaluable skills in cross-cultural work and appreciative inquiry. She returned to Los Angeles in May 2007 to begin a new chapter of life as a motherher son was born in February 2008.
As a therapist and life coach, Dove is interested in helping people find ways of relating to their problems and reducing the impact of problems on their day to day lives. This involves a solution-focused approach that really honors the knowledge and experience of the individuals who come to consult.
Times of transition and change can be disorienting, even when the change is needed or desired, and can put us out of touch with our sense of competence, meaning, hope, and/or identity. By working respectfully, developing a good understanding of each persons experience of the problem or problems, and exploring each persons strengths and resources, Dove works to help people map their path to the life they would prefer.
Joyce M. Young (associate)
M.S., Director, C.Med., Accredited Family Mediator
Joyce brings 20 years of mediation experience to the firm. A life-long learner, she brings her well-honed communication and mediation skills to the practice.
- Master of Science in Applied Behavioral Science, American University, Washington, D.C.
- Accredited Family Mediator, Ontario Association of Family Mediators
- Chartered Mediator (C.Med.) with the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Institute of Canada
- Board Member and Co-Chair, Family Section, ADR Institute of Ontario
- Certificate in Advanced Family Mediation, the University of Waterloo
- Faculty, Certificate in Advanced Dispute Resolution, York University
- Trainer for collaborative family law lawyers and Circle Process Mediators
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