Parting Waters Mediation

We can’t say enough good things about the way the Parting Waters team guided us through our recent divorce. While we agreed on all our terms, we needed help finalizing an outstanding issue. Thanks to Katie’s mediation expertise, coupled with her kindness and compassion, we were able to easily and collaboratively work through our remaining issue in a single session. Her team prepared and filed our divorce documents and kept us in the loop as our case made its way through the court. The Parting Waters team made us feel supported and cared for during a difficult time, and we are grateful.

Emily Shannon is a brilliant mediator whose outstanding compassion, composure, and legal expertise helped me navigate a shocking and traumatic divorce. She enabled us to disentangle peacefully, thoughtfully, and without needless additional suffering. Emily created a safe environment that protected mental health, built trust, celebrated accomplishments, and kept us both on our best behavior. When negotiations got tense, Emily was masterful in diplomatically defusing further conflict and finding agreeable middle ground. She was able to get our agreement sorted out in just three sessions, and was tremendously helpful in answering all of my questions along the way. I can't highly recommend getting divorced... but I'm deeply grateful to have found Emily. I'd highly recommend her to anyone who

Linda helped my ex and I with our mediation and divorce. It was a difficult time, but we made it through and we are both doing great now. We have a really amicable divorce and we are handling the co-parenting thing smoothly. I wanted to thank Linda and Parting Waters for helping us navigate that difficult time in our lives. We are better for it.

My ex-husband and I went to several mediators before we fell in Katie's lap. She was fantastic and absolutely what we needed! With a warm yet direct approach, she was able to offer a safe environment for us both. A space where our feelings were important, though our future co-parenting agreements were the focus. We were able to work through 10 years of our built up resentment since the divorce and begin to see the value that we both brought to our children, including ways to appreciate and respect our parental differences and how they are beneficial to the family as a whole.

My ex-husband and I worked together with Katie on a mediation agreement to submit with our divorce petition. It wasn't a particularly complicated or high-conflict scenario, but it's still not a service you really look forward to using. What I most appreciated was Katie's calm demeanor and her ability to balance honoring our feelings and impulses with holding us to account in the larger process. In my opinion, she met us both where we were, and helped us find an agreement we both feel good about. She helped contextualize and normalize the process for me, and knew how to pivot approaches when needed.