Every engagement starts with a consultation — a conversation to understand where you are and what you actually need. From there, we find the right fit. These packages are a starting point, not a prescription. If something needs to be adjusted to fit your situation, we'll talk about that too.
All packages use milestone-based pricing: amounts are confirmed at your consultation and payment is due before each session begins. This keeps the process moving and removes the uncertainty of an open-ended hourly clock.
Costs are typically shared between parties. Whatever you're seeing here, you're not looking at this alone.
You may wonder how I can meet privately with each party and still remain neutral. The honest answer is that I don't practice old-style neutrality — being on no one's side. I am on everyone's side, and especially on the side of the family as a whole.
Individual sessions aren't a compromise to neutrality. They're how I make sure every person in the process feels genuinely heard — so that when we sit down together, everyone is actually ready to work.
If you're a professional or just want to understand this more deeply, there's a longer conversation about it on the page for attorneys and divorce professionals.
Sometimes you need to get clear before you can get to the table. The First Step is individual coaching — just you — designed for two different situations:
Either way, this is four hours of focused, one-on-one support. If you need more time after that, a renewal block is available at the same rate without purchasing a full mediation package.
You've both decided to move forward. You're not looking for a fight — you're looking for a process that keeps things calm, moves at a reasonable pace, and gets you to an agreement you can both live with.
This package works well for:
What's included: two hours of individual preparation sessions — one with each party — and up to four hours of joint mediation. A final written agreement is provided by Gradient Resolutions unless you elect to have independent counsel draft the language.
A note on how sessions are structured: joint sessions are scheduled in two- or three-hour blocks to prevent decision fatigue and keep the work focused. For cases that result in a court-filed document, the agreement is provided as an unsigned draft for submission — it does not become a court order until accepted by a judge.
Some cases need more than joint sessions. When communication has become difficult, when trust has eroded, or when the issues are layered enough that joint work alone won't move things forward — you need individual support woven into the process alongside the joint sessions.
This package works well for:
What's included: a combination of joint and individual sessions, structured so that you are fully supported and the case keeps moving forward. Individual sessions happen between joint sessions — giving each party a private space to process, prepare, and stay engaged without derailing the work you're doing together.
Parenting coordination is an ongoing process. This package is where it begins.
If you need a court-ordered Parenting Coordinator or Special Master, or if you and your co-parent are ready to establish a voluntary PC relationship, this is the structured starting point that makes everything that follows possible.
This package works well for:
How it works: we begin with a joint intake session — a conversation with both of you together. I want to learn from you first: what your family looks like, what isn't working, and what you need. That conversation shapes everything that follows.
Between the intake session and the individual sessions, I independently review your court orders and any relevant documents, informed by what I've learned from you about your situation and your children. Documents are reviewed together as they come up and are needed — not in advance of knowing your family.
From there, each parent meets with me individually — a private, confidential space to share your specific concerns, help me understand each child's temperament and needs, and establish the communication habits that will make the joint work possible.
Then we move into the first structured joint session: a focused meeting to stabilize your current schedule, address immediate pressure points — school decisions, activity conflicts, transition logistics — and establish the framework for how parenting coordination will work going forward.
What comes after this package: parenting coordination is a sustained engagement. After the intake process, the ongoing work typically moves through three phases: in the first quarter, we may meet as often as weekly or every two weeks — building structure, establishing patterns, and addressing issues as they arise while the framework is still new. As things stabilize, we move to monthly or every-six-weeks sessions, working through decision-making as it comes up rather than in reaction to crisis. Over time, as the framework holds and co-parenting skills develop, we move to quarterly check-ins — enough to maintain the structure without ongoing intensive support.
The scope, timeline, and ongoing structure of your PC engagement is determined together and, when appropriate, as ordered by the court, based on what your family actually needs.
If you're not sure whether you need parenting coordination or mediation, the worksheet below can help you think it through before your consultation.
Some situations need someone with you from the very beginning all the way through — not just for the mediation itself, but for the preparation before and the support after.
This package works well for:
What's included: individual coaching, mediation, and individual and joint sessions to build and maintain communication and agreements as your situation evolves. This engagement is built around your specific family — the issues, the timeline, the people involved — and designed to produce agreements durable enough to hold as life changes.
Pricing starts at $10,000 and is confirmed at consultation based on the scope of your specific situation.
Divorce and co-parenting conflict rarely need just one professional. Depending on your situation, you may also need legal advice, financial guidance, or emotional support alongside the mediation process. I am part of a broader network of professionals who work with families navigating these transitions — including the Irooze Divorce Directory, Fresh Starts, and collaboratively trained practitioners across San Diego.
I design the process and keep parties moving safely forward through their decision-making. But the people around that process — attorneys, coaches, CDFAs, therapists — are part of what makes the outcome durable. If you need a referral, I'll point you toward someone I trust.
These packages represent the floor for doing this work durably — not a premium offering. Mediation is significantly less expensive than litigation — and the gap is larger than most people realize. In my collaborative divorce training in summer 2026, attorneys in the room put the cost of building toward a single day of trial in San Diego at $20,000–$30,000. That's one day. These packages are designed to get you all the way to a durable agreement for a fraction of that — and to do it in a way that actually holds.