Chartered & Accredited Mediator
Chartered Mediator: Ilana provides closed or open, and child-inclusive Mediations
"Finding common ground | One conversation at a time"
Family mediation is a confidential, voluntary process where a neutral mediator helps separated or divorcing parents craft child‑focused agreements — covering decisions like parenting time, decision‑making, special expenses, and post‑divorce adjustments.
Ilana J. Miller is a Chartered & Accredited Mediator, Certified Arbitrator, Certified Parenting Coordinator, and s.30 Forensic Evaluator with over 20+ years of experience and dual graduate degrees | Child & family psychology — Master of Laws, LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law school.
Mediation serves to clear up misunderstandings, determine underlying interests and concerns, find areas of agreement, and incorporate those areas into solutions devised by the parties themselves.
Mediation is a process in which a chartered or accredited mediator works closely with parents who are newly separated or soon to be separated and need agreements in place so as to be able to move on with their lives.
The parents may disagree over decision-making (formerly known as custody) and parenting time (formerly known as access) arrangements that they would like to see for their children. Generally, parents who are not high conflict in nature are good candidates for this process as there needs to be some reasonable communication skills and goodwill between them.
As a mediator, Ilana Miller will facilitate communication and decisions and will help you achieve an agreement. She will help develop a lasting Agreement that is tailored to your family’s needs and most notably to your children’s unique age, stage and development. Prior to the completion of the plan, Ilana will request that each parent have the plan vetted by their counsel or taken to an independent family lawyer prior to signing off on the Agreement.
"An ounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation.” [Joseph Grynbaum]
Proudly serving families across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond, with designations that allow me to support clients throughout Ontario and across Canada.
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