Talia is a Certified Comprehensive Family Mediator, Certified Family Relations Mediator, Child-Inclusive Mediator, Certified Clinical Trauma Practitioner, Co-parent Coach/Counsellor, Certified Coercive Control Trauma-Informed Clinician and Certified New Ways for Families Coach who specializes in aligning cost-effective, and realistic paths forward for families that proactively reduce conflict and re-establish consistency as well as calm.
Her role is to guide folks and facilitate conversations that help to figure out the unfigureoutable.
She began her career at assault services almost two decades ago, she’s been fortunate to have led a wide variety of local, regional, domestic, and international teams toward the elevation of support and equity for vulnerable people in challenging circumstances inclusive but not limited to family violence, intimate partner violence, mental illness, substance misuse, homelessness, poverty, crisis, and trauma.
She practices from a culturally supportive, child-focused, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-affirming perspective where she aims to hold equitable space for folks to feel heard, and find solutions for their families.
She has extensive lived experience, education, and professional experience working with families navigating heightened conflict. She has received training from a broad range of well-respected institutions, organizations, universities, and professionals including but not limited to Family Mediation Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the Canadian Police Knowledge Network, the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, Children Beyond Dispute, Harvard Law School, Somatic Experiencing International, Stanford University, the Institute of Child Psychology, the Crisis and Trauma Research Institute of Canada, the High Conflict Institute, University of Toronto, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, University of Salford’s Master of Psychology programme with a specialization in coercive control, Provincial Association of Transition Houses & Services in Saskatchewan (a province with the highest rates of reported family violence in Canada), and Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse (RESOLVE).
She sits on the board for the BC Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She has published in the Law Review regarding the experiences of neurodivergent persons in family law and family services settings.
Those who work with Talia often note she’s soft-spoken, insightful, and gets things done.
Talia works in private practice with Kinder Family Services, as well as with Co-lab Consulting Corporation which offers online/virtual support for co-parents and conflict or court-involved families at cost-efficient rates, and on the Crossroads Family Support Team that provides holistic support (family mediation, co-parent counselling , child/play therapy, etc.) from a family systems lens for separated/divorced families who are navigating high levels of conflict and/or may be court-involved.
Memberships:
Associate Roster, Mediate BC
American Bar Association (non-attorney)
American Psychology Association
Hear the Child Society
BC Society for Children and Youth
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
The High Conflict Institute
Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada
Family Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario
Ontario Association of Family Mediation
Certification: Certified Comprehensive Family Mediator (C.CFM)
Certified Family Relations Mediator (C.FRM)
Certified New Ways for Families Coach (C.NWFF)
Certified Child Inclusive Mediation and Counselling Consultant (CIMC)
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP-II)
Certified Coercive Control Trauma Informed Clinician
ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP)
Dual Certified Child and Family Trauma Professional (CFTP)
Certified Advanced Grief Counselling Specialist (CAGCS)
Certificate in Gender Based Violence - Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women & Children
Certificate in Family Mediation - Herzing College
Certificate in Child Protection Mediation - Family Mediation Canada
Certificate in Parenting Coordination - Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Certificate in Parenting Plan Evaluations - Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Somatic Experiencing Professional Certification - Beg I, Beg II
