Ben provides all family mediation, collaborative coaching, and CPS® services.
Ben is a divorce, co-parenting and family mediator. After years working with families as a social worker, Ben fell in love with mediation after taking a training in 2009 and his mediation journey led him to establish Mediation and Family Services in 2014. He has since mediated hundreds of divorces and family disputes helping families stay in control of their decisions while saving time, money, and heartache. Ben is also a Divorce Coach for divorces following the Collaborative Law model.
In addition to mediation and collaborative law, Ben trains Collaborative Problem Solving for MGH Psychiatry’s Think:Kids’ program, is on the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, and was an Instructor for William James College’s High Conflict Co-Parenting Program. Ben regularly writes and presents workshops on mediation, divorce, advanced divorce mediation training for mediators, how therapists can support divorcing clients, and more.
Phone: 617-872-7731
Email: ben@benstich.com
Nnena offers divorce, pre & post-nup agreements, and paternity matters.
Weekend and evening mediation sessions upon request
Nnena has mediated the full range of family/domestic relations since 1997, and disputes involving employment, housing, business, consumer, and academic/higher education. Nnena is retired from Harvard Law School, where she was the Director and Sr. Clinical Instructor of the Family/Domestic Violence Law Clinic at Harvard’s Legal Services Center.
Nnena has worked with the Harvard Mediation Program (HMP) and Harvard Program on Negotiation as trainer, and with Harvard Law School to supervise students learning mediation and negotiation. She has taught mediation at Suffolk and B.C. Law Schools, MIT, and N.E. School of Law. Nnena regularly speaks about a variety of topics, including topics related to self-care and boundaries at work, race, gender, and LGBTQ+ rights.
“Thank you for being so good at what you do which has brought us to a situation that we can all live with… We all feel that we were blessed to find in you, not just an excellent mediator, but also a kind and funny person. Your warmth made these sessions so much easier.” -KS
Phone: 617-359-0059
Email: nnena@odimlaw.com
Kristin offers divorce, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, co-habitation agreements, and paternity matters.
Evening and weekends available.
Kristin specializes in facilitative mediation, with a focus on family mediation and estate settlement mediation. She handles all aspects of family mediation, including divorce and separation agreements, parental coordination, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, child support, financial agreements, and co-habitation agreements.
Early in her legal career, Kristin was a partner and founding member of a family law litigation firm based in New York. She decided there needed to be a better path forward for families to reach their desired goals. She believes that mediation is more conciliatory, less expensive, and ultimately, more successful in the short and long term for families. Kristin also provides mediation for estate settlements and disputes between beneficiaries of trusts and estates.
Phone: 617.347.5890
Email: kristin@mirlianimediation.com
Lydia offer individual conflict coaching services.
Evening and weekends available
Lydia provides one-on-one conflict coaching to individuals who want to build their skills and confidence in navigating family conflict. Her work includes supporting spouses and partners preparing for separation or divorce, parents working to set boundaries with teen or adult children, and preparing for challenging family conversations.
Lydia views conflict as a natural part of relationships and helps clients develop practical conflict resolution tools.
She has four decades of family social work experience and is a trained mediator. She has conducted presentations for the Children’s Trust Fund, MA Providers’ Council, National Association of Social Workers (MA-RI), and MA Department of Public Health.
Phone: 617-419-0160
Email:carbonelydia@gmail.com