Separation can feel overwhelming, but you do not have to face it alone. Our family mediators help couples and families reach practical agreements on children, finances, and separation without unnecessary court proceedings.
At Marcia Mediation, we provide family mediation services across England and Wales. Several members of our mediation team are former family solicitors, bringing valuable legal insight while remaining impartial throughout the mediation process. This unique combination of legal understanding and mediation expertise helps families resolve even the most complex issues with confidence.
✔ Accredited family mediators
✔ Several mediators are former family solicitors with extensive experience in family law mediation, including complex financial issues
✔ Specialists in divorce mediation, child arrangements and financial disputes
✔ Child focused mediation
✔ Online family mediation across England and Wales
✔ Hybrid mediation involving your solicitors, accountants, Independent Financial Advisers and other professional advisers where appropriate
✔ Professional, confidential and impartial support
Our experienced family mediators help families reach practical agreements across every stage of separation. We can help with:
We also specialise in supporting couples who own family businesses, helping them resolve financial issues and business interests through mediation rather than costly court proceedings.
Whether you need support with parenting arrangements or how to separate finances before divorce, our experienced team is here to help.
Families come to us during some of the most challenging times in their lives. We are proud to have helped hundreds of clients reach positive outcomes through professional, supportive, and impartial family mediation services.
The first step is usually a Mediation Information and Assessment Meeting (MIAM). During this meeting, we’ll explain the family mediation process, discuss your circumstances, and help you decide whether mediation is suitable for your situation.
In many family law cases, attending a MIAM is required before making a court application.
If mediation is suitable, we’ll arrange sessions to help you resolve the issues that matter most.
Almost all of our mediations now take place online, allowing clients to attend from home or the office. Online family mediation offers greater flexibility, reduced costs, less confrontation, increased privacy, and makes it easier to involve solicitors, Independent Financial Advisers, accountants, and other professionals where appropriate.
For more complex cases, we also offer hybrid mediation, allowing professional advisers to take part in discussions where their expertise will help move matters forward. Secure digital document sharing also makes online mediation particularly effective for complex financial cases involving property, pensions, family businesses, and other significant assets.
Meetings can take place jointly, separately, or through shuttle mediation, depending on what will help everyone communicate most effectively.
As discussions progress, we’ll use our legal knowledge and extensive mediation experience, where appropriate, to help you explore practical solutions and identify areas of agreement.
Where agreements are reached, we prepare the mediation documents that your independent solicitor can use to prepare a Consent Order, providing legal certainty and allowing the agreement to be approved by the court where required.
Whether you’re considering mediation or need guidance on your options, we’re here to help.
Many people ask, what is family mediation?
Family mediation is a voluntary process where an independent mediator helps families resolve disputes relating to separation, children, finances, and future arrangements. Rather than asking the court to make decisions for you, mediation encourages constructive discussions that help everyone move towards practical agreements together.
Several members of our team have legal backgrounds as former family solicitors, allowing them to understand the legal issues that often arise during mediation while remaining completely impartial throughout the process.
Marcia Mediation was founded by Marcia Lister in 2014. A former family law solicitor, Marcia has long been a champion of the important role mediation plays in helping families resolve disputes constructively…
Marcia has worked exclusively as an independent family law mediator since 2004. She is an accredited Family Mediator, a qualified child consultant practitioner, and a qualified trainer of aspiring mediators. She is also a member of the Professional Mediators Association and Resolution.
Applying an approach built on empathy and pragmatism, Marcia has successfully helped families resolve a wide range of disputes involving both children and finances. Today, she leads an experienced team of family mediators, several of whom are former family solicitors, combining extensive mediation expertise with valuable legal insight.
