Ideal clients are...
ones that want to work together, want to create a positive future for themselves and their children
BCDM Key Points
Here are some key points to note when considering BCDM for your mediation or counseling needs...
Clients we don’t want...
are ones that aren’t respectful, want to win at all costs and have unreasonable expectations
Creating a safe, confidential environment is a priority to us
Trained Mediator through NJAPM
Allowing clients to have a voice and be heard
NJ Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Empowering clients to make choices that are best for their family
Trained in grief / loss / bereavement counseling
(divorce is a loss)
We want to break the stigma that divorce is a nasty nightmare...
while it is a difficult choice, it can be accomplished with dignity and where everyone walks away feeling as though they have made progress and made accomplishments
Offer co-joint mediation
(male and female mediators working with the couple concurrently)
No one gets bullied in our office
We work with children and families
We want to set our clients, the new co-parenting team up for success, together
Goals include creating new chapters...
new beginnings for divorcing couple, open up possibilities for healthy co-parenting, allow divorcing couple to direct how they want their future to look, etc.
Work away from the mindset that children are pawns or a power play in a divorce
Offer evening and Saturday appointment times
Offer community based resources...
to help with this process: realtors, attorneys, therapists, accountants, financial specialists, bankers, etc.
Want to keep what is usually the most emotionally...
charged, stressful, harrowing ordeal a family can go through at a point where the least amount of damage occurs
We work to decrease anxiety...
and animosity and increase productivity as to not drag out the mediation and divorce process
