Marital Mediation

Family/Marital Mediation is a growing practice. It was designed to help families and marriages specifically to either stay married, stay communicating or build a healthy family. Family/Marital Mediation is not counseling or therapy. 
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Mediation is a facilitated method of dispute resolution. Family/Marital Mediation focuses on practical solutions. 
 
By using standard mediation techniques such as reframing, expressing interests and needs, and learning how to use active listening, faulty communications can be changed and angry interchanges can be lessened. This will make a couple feel good about each other again, thereby furthering and preserving the marital relationship.

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Additionally, marital mediators generally have experience in the financial matters relevant to marriages. These financial disputes can cause great distress and bitterness in a marriage. Financial matters can be addressed directly with the mediator who can analyze the financial data, and bring in experts where needed.

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Mediation is short-term, practical, and addresses concrete problems and communication difficulties. It is not therapy and does not delve deeply into family backgrounds or personal issues. It helps spouses negotiate issues that they are unable to handle directly with each other. It gives them tools to use at home when the mediator is not around anymore.
 
Mediation models better ways of communication when spouses are in conflict over important issues, or even where there are petty disagreements. Standard mediation practices such as reframing and active listening work well in marriages. Marital mediation often works to help a marriage at times when other methods have failed.
 
Sometimes married couples (or one of the spouses) has a great resistance entering into marital counseling. Marital mediation is a good option for these couples to get the help they want. Marital mediation can help the marriage survive through a difficult time, and the parties have a new chance and can use mediation (or other methods) in the future if they so choose.