Navigating a separation or divorce is one of the most stressful experiences a family can face. But ending a relationship doesn’t have to mean destroying your family’s foundation or draining your finances in a prolonged court battle.
At Level Up Wellness Group, our Family Mediation services provide a structured, neutral, and trauma-informed space to resolve disputes. We help you and the other parent create sustainable parenting plans, untangle your shared lives, and make informed decisions about your future—without the hostility and expense of traditional litigation.
Whether you are in Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, or anywhere across Canada, our virtual and in-person mediation options ensure you have access to top-tier dispute resolution.
Professional Mediator
Family Conflict Resolution Professional
With over 15 years of experience in resolving family disputes, Krista has worked extensively in various mediation and conflict coaching roles, helping individuals navigate complex family dynamics, including separation and divorce.
Family mediation is a voluntary, collaborative, and confidential Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process. Instead of a judge making decisions for you, an impartial, highly trained mediator helps you and the other parent negotiate a consensual and fair agreement.
Our mediators do not take sides, give legal advice, or make decisions. Instead, they manage the process, help to decrease the level of conflict, ensure the parties can have a balanced discussion, and guide you through complex conversations so you can maintain control over your own outcomes.
Start here. You’ll meet briefly with a mediator to discuss your situation at a high level and ensure that family mediation is the right fit for your specific dispute.
Before any joint sessions occur, our mediator will meet with each party individually. This is a private, confidential session designed to understand your personal goals, discuss required financial disclosure, and screen for safety and appropriateness. The pre-mediation appointment is also an opportunity to gain an understanding of what to expect in the joint mediation.
Please note: Joint mediation cannot be booked until both parties have completed their individual Pre-Mediation session.
Available in-person or virtually across Canada. You, the other parent, and the mediator will roll up your sleeves and work through the issues systematically. Our mediators keep the conversation productive, focused on the future, and centered on the best interests of your children.
Once you reach an agreement, your mediator will draft a comprehensive, written summary of your decisions. While this document is not a legally binding contract on its own, it is a blueprint you and the other parent may take to your respective family lawyers to draft a Separation Agreement or Consent Court Order.
When parents separate, making the right decisions for your family can feel overwhelming.
Child-Inclusive Mediation provides a safe, structured framework that ensures your children’s voices and experiences are gently brought into the decision-making process, without forcing them to take sides or make adult decisions.
Below is the step-by-step pathway we guide you through to create a durable, child-focused parenting plan.
An individual, confidential session between the mediator and the first parent. This meeting is used to understand the current situation, identify key parenting issues, and ensure that the child-inclusive framework is safe and appropriate for your family.
An identical, separate, and confidential session between the mediator and the second parent. It is vital that both parents have an equal opportunity to share their perspectives, goals, and any concerns regarding the children before the process moves forward.
A dedicated, safe space for your child to speak with our specially trained Mediator. Through age-appropriate conversation, drawing, or play, the consultant helps your child explore how they are coping with the family separation and what matters most to them.
A follow-up session with the Mediator. This second meeting allows the consultant to build deeper trust, clarify the child’s perspective, and gently work with them to decide what messages and feelings they would like to share with their parents.
Both parents return together to meet with the Mediator. With your child’s permission, the consultant provides oral feedback regarding how the children are coping, what they need, and their core wishes. Armed with this mutual understanding of your children’s perspective, we will then work together to shape a responsive, long-term parenting agreement.
Alternative Dispute Resolution is highly recommended, and in many locations is a mandatory pre-court requirement by the Alberta Court system including Alberta Court of Justice and the Alberta Court of King’s Bench.
When parents are able to communicate effectively and issues are resolved quickly, parental stress decreases and children experience happier and healthier environments.
We believe in absolute transparency when it comes to the cost of our services.
