ABOUT US
We are an accredited mediation organisation providing an easy, cost-effective, and swift form of alternative dispute resolution.
Mutual mediation was established in 2018 and is accredited by the Family Mediation Council and a member of the College of Mediators, our mediators are adept in managing all forms of family issues, such as child contact arrangements, financial separations, and reconciliations as well as work conflicts, inter-generational matters, international property disputes, wills, and probate issues and community disputes,
Mutual mediation aims to provide a highly professional and responsive mediation service to facilitate clients in achieving practical arrangements and resolutions to disputes, saving our clients time and expense.
We have successfully mediated many separations, divorce, finance and property, alimony, child arrangements, and work conflict agreements and are also skilled in managing high-conflict situations.
Our team of professional mediators understands disputants can experience a mixture of emotions during conflicts and also the hardship of moving forward. Our mediators are empathetic and understand being locked in a dispute can be a difficult and confusing time, and therefore, do not judge individuals but support every client in moving forward towards a stress-free solution.
With more than 10 years of experience in negotiation techniques in commercial and private sales and financial agreements, we understand disputants need time, information, and the opportunity to safely and quickly seek options to mediate contentious issues outside of court using open communication and interest-based negotiation techniques.
We ensure our clients are comfortable and are in control of the process. All information is dealt with strict confidentiality and is without prejudice. Mediation does not make any judgment and all proposed agreements are made with both parties’ consent.
Mutual Mediation empowers clients by allowing our clients to maintain decision-making control of on they wish to move forward as opposed to being told what they should do.
Mediation facilitates the securing of an agreement suited and agreed by both parties. The arrangements and agreements achieved through mediation can be equally effective as court orders.
Mutual Mediation can also provide signed documents for clients to proceed with court applications where mediation may not be suitable or does not progress.
Mutual Mediation strives to provide their client with exceptionally high standard service and make the mediation process as simple and easy for you at a very competitive rate. We are able to provide special rates to clients who require more than five sessions.
Mutual Mediation has the facility to arrange meeting rooms closer to clients’ locations for convenience and all our meeting rooms provide privacy, comfort and are easily accessible.
Why Us?
Mutual Mediation has independent, professionally trained mediators who are accredited with the Family Mediation Council. Our Mediators are ready to help you and the other party work out an agreement and move forward from the disputes.
Our mediators are registered and regulated by the family mediation council and are members of the College of Mediators.
Mutual Mediation can help you stay in control. No one will make you do anything against your wishes.
Our mediators will help you find a solution that works for you both and explain how you can make an agreement legally binding.
Mutual Mediation uses the “SMART” proposal strategy to provide and help clients move forward with realistic and workable proposals and arrangements.
The “SMART Proposal Strategy” ensures all proposals are
- Specific to the issues that disputants have raised
- Measurable so both parties know what is to be expected from each other
- Achievable to ensure any proposals made are within their capability
- Realistic to ensure the proposal will last for a long time and can be improved in the future
- Timely to ensure both participants have a set goal of what to expect and when
A judge will expect you to have considered mediation before you apply to a court to hear your case. They can refuse to hear your case until you have done this.
We understand conflicts and disputes can be a very difficult time for disputants, our mediators ensure all parties to mediation feel comfortable and safe at all times and the sessions are tailored to our client’s needs.
We have the facility to provide separate meeting rooms to parties to facilitate shuttle mediation at their request and also hold co-mediation sessions with a second mediator.
We also have the facility of online mediation using video conferencing allowing our clients to access our mediation service from the safety and comfort of their own home
Our mediators are friendly, polite, approachable, and helpful, ensuring client care is always at the heart of their service.
Our offices are conveniently located throughout London and easily accessible via public transport.
We can also arrange translation service in any language to make mediation accessible to non English speakers.
We understand some matters may need to be taken to court where mediation may not be suitable or proceed further than the MIAM. We have a quick turnover time for providing signed documents to assist with making a court application.
How Mutual Mediation can help
- We give you more say about what happens and focus on what is important to you both
- Our mediation sessions are less stressful, with less conflict between both parties
- We can help you save costs of resolving disputes/conflicts and our services cost a fraction of the cost of legal proceedings.
- Our services are much quicker and cheaper than long drawn-out court battles
- Our Mediators remain neutral and impartial at all times
- Our mediators work with both parties and not against you
- We ensure you are comfortable and safe at all times
- Family mediation can be less upsetting or damaging for any children involved – and helps them continue important family relationships
- Your legal rights remain unaffected.
- No one will make you do anything against your wishes.
- We can help turn your agreements into legally binding orders
- We can facilitate negotiations to achieve flexible agreements where you make can changes if your circumstances change
- We can arrange meeting rooms closer to your location for convenience
- We can facilitate separate meeting rooms to accommodate shuttle mediation
- Most people who start mediation will reach an agreement without having to go to court
- Our family mediation service can help facilitate Arrangements for children after you break up (sometimes called custody, residence, or contact) Child maintenance payments Finances (for example, what to do with your house, savings, pension, debts).
- We can also help you with the other issues you might face, for example, your children keeping in touch with their grandparents, stepfamilies, or in-laws.
- We can also help when arrangements you’ve made before need to change, particularly as your children grow up or are no longer working.