Collaborative Divorce, Mediation, a cooperative approach to divorce in NY without litigation, offers couples a respectful approach preserving family relationships. A child of an ugly divorce, i know the impact of conflict on children. Determined to help others find their way through a conflict in a way that each feels they matter is Andrea's secret to navigating participants to resolution of the issues they are facing. Nameless unspoken energy under the table too often fuels a conflict to impasse. Andrea, adept at identifying that energy, enables participants to find a new path forward.

After litigating family matters, Andrea became convinced that litigation tears families apart and there had to be another way. Finding mediation and collaborative law was the new way forward for Andrea. In 2007 she took all the necessary trainings and in 2008 she founded her own practice and today helps hundreds of couples find resolution to their issues in a way they each can honor. Andrea's key is recognizing and accepting each participant's experience and perspective, and using that to help a couple find solutions that will honor the core of each person. Couples working with Andrea emerge with a sense that they matter and solutions they can honor.