Services
Our Services
At CLEAR WATER PNW, we provide compassionate and tailored solutions to support families navigating divorce, parenting challenges, and co-parenting dynamics. Through evaluative mediation, settlement conferences, facilitative mediation, and insight mediation, we guide individuals toward resolution while fostering healthier communication. With a commitment to active listening and empathy, we ensure that each voice is heard, respect is upheld, and lasting solutions are achieved.
Coaching
Mediation
Law
Tailored Mediation Plans
Every mediation session we offer is uniquely crafted to reflect the specific dynamics of your case, ensuring that all viewpoints are considered and solutions are reached cooperatively.
Harmonious Solutions
Embracing the journey toward mutual understanding, we foster open dialogue and collaboration, using proven methods to guide discussions toward fair and positive resolutions.
Hybrid Flexible
We welcome meeting in person or via Zoom, our flexible approach accommodates both shuttle diplomacy between parties in different areas or facilitative mediation as needed.
Evaluative Mediation
Evaluative Mediation is a more Directive approach to Mediation useful in matters where the Participants have been engaged in Litigation and Discovery and seek to avoid the need for Trial. Shuttle Diplomacy is exercised with the Participants in separate rooms – whether in person or by Zoom Breakout Rooms. Participants may be represented by Counsel. Counsel provide Advocacy, Legal Advice, Drafting of Legal Documents, Oral Arguments to the Superior Court. While the Evaluative Mediator cannot substitute as Counsel, is not practicing Law, and serves as a neutral, the Evaluative Mediator will facilitate an Agreement and prepare the Memorandum of Understanding – Final Agreement – CR 2A Settlement Agreement.
Facilitative Mediation
Facilitative Mediation is less Directive and involves the Participants and the Mediator in the same room – whether in person or by Zoom. Often, Participants appear without Counsel. As with any style of Mediation, the Mediator cannot substitute as Counsel, is not practicing Law, and serves as a neutral. If Counsel are present, they are asked to allow the Participants to engage in their process. As a neutral, the Facilitative Mediator leads the Participants from behind to a “Common Ground” and may prepare the Memorandum of Understanding – Final Agreement – CR 2A Settlement Agreement. This method is often referenced in the Dispute Resolution Section of Participants’ Parenting Plans.
Narrative Mediation
Narrative Mediation is a type of Mediation whereby the Mediator guides the Participants to reframe their negative story into a positive story – helping the couple to recall all of the wonderful and beautiful things that brought them together in the first place, along with all of the wonderful and beautiful memories that shape where they are today to enable them to resolve their Family Disputes to create a positive outcome for each other and for their children.
Insight Mediation
Insight Mediation involves the Mediator engaging in further inquiry to enable the Participants to arrive at their own solutions with the guidance of the Mediator. It may involve a series of separate one-on-one Sessions with each Participant and then a Joint Session or Joint Sessions to arrive at a Final Agreement. As with any style of Mediation, the Insight Mediator cannot substitute as Counsel, is not practicing Law, cannot give legal advice, and serves as a neutral. The Insight Mediator may prepare the Memorandum of Understanding – Final Agreement – CR 2A Settlement Agreement.
Co-Parenting Coaching
Co-Parent Coaching involves engagement with the Co-Parents in tools to help them with the Uncoupling process to facilitate better Co-Parent Communications.
In the Co-Parent Coaching process, parents will be challenged by the Coach with appreciative inquiry to look within; will be guided to examine their own values and those of the other parent; will learn how to improve their communications in front of their children about the other parent and about their own grief, pain, loss, anger, etc.; and will learn how to improve their communications with their Co-Parent in terms of language, tone, body language, timing, etc. for the benefit of their children.
The Co-Parent Coach can assist the Co-Parents in developing a mutual Divorce Story for their Divorce (or mutual Separation Story, if unmarried Parents) to deliver to their children, so that their children do not carry the baggage of their parents’ Divorce.
In the Co-Parent Coaching process, parents will be guided in the development of a comprehensive and tailored Parenting Plan that suits their children’s best interests, or if they already have a Parenting Plan in place, they will be guided through disputes to resolutions.
At CLEAR WATER Mediation Services, L.L.C. – we offer a valuable tool to Co-Parents – a Workbook – Our Family in Two Homes.
Professional Boundaries define Co-Parent Coaches and the line between Divorce Coaching and the Practice of Law, Therapy, Mediation, and Financial Analysis.
Parent Coaching
A Parent Coach is a non-judgmental non-presumptuous guide who helps answer the universal need of parents for more support, knowledge, and clarity.
A Parent Coach provides the answer to the age-old lament that children do not come with a manual.
A Parent Coach helps parents to write their own manuals, meeting their family’s unique values and needs.
A Parent Coach is a guide, creating a safe space for parents to examine and break generational patterns to not repeat them and to highlight the generational gifts to pass on – so parents can create their desired family life.
The expectation has always been that every parent has to figure it out as they go along. But as our lives and the world become more complex, and as we see the way children and parents are struggling, more families are seeking support and guidance from professional Parent Coaches.
Our knowledge of Child Development, Family Dynamics, Brain Science, Emotional Regulation and Intelligence, Attachment Theory, Attunement, Positive Parenting has evolved. We now know that having a deeper understanding of these areas is one key to nurturing our children and guiding them to be the kind, confident, connected adults of the future.
That’s why many parents are turning to professional Parent Coaches to find the support, information, and tools to feel confident as parents and enjoy their family lives.
Divorce Coaching
Divorce Coaching involves divorce education and training, somatic, and other stress relief techniques. People in divorce experience high-stress levels and feelings of overwhelm and grief, pain, loss, anger, etc. by the enormity of this major life transition. A Divorce Coach guides a divorcing Client to stress reduction. Uncoupling, empowerment, more effective decision-making, and creative solutions.
A Divorce Coach can move a divorcing Client away from High-Conflict Divorce toward a more conscious, respectful, and dignified divorce.
A Divorce Coach highlights for the divorcing Client necessary actions to create a sense of empowerment in the divorce process.
Professional Boundaries define Divorce Coaches and the line between Divorce Coaching and the Practice of Law, Therapy, Mediation, and Financial Analysis.
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