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This directory of Collaborative professionals in Edmonton and area provides the quickest and easiest way to find the qualified professionals you need to obtain a divorce or separation without going to court and needing to deal with all the associated costs and stress.
No two people will need the same support — you may need a collaboratively trained divorce lawyer and a financial planner, another couple may need a family specialist for counselling services and a divorce coach. Yet another couple may just need a family law lawyer who knows how to help a couple through a collaborative divorce.
Divorce Coaches help clients address issues that often create barriers in settling disputes during this challenging time. They will assist the individual by providing them with resources, education, and information, while helping the client to develop positive stress management, goal setting, effective communication, and conflict-resolution skills. Divorce Coaches can also assist with clarifying the individual’s needs, interests, and concerns to prepare them to advocate for themselves in team meetings. This keeps the process moving forward and allows them to be their best self in a two household family.
Divorce Coaches can have an educational background in law, mental health, or finance.
You have multiple search options (All, Family Lawyers, Financial Professionals, Family Specialists). You can also search by Postal Code if you are interested in “finding a Collaborative Professional in my area”, or by name and keyword.
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James K. Taylor
Family Lawyer
I am a person who is looking for the greatest long-term possibilities for the people I am trying to help. I understand that people who are going through a family issue are often facing the most difficult time of their lives, both emotionally and financially. Because the circumstances are so difficult, it is easy to get lost in the moment and forget about the future and what it has for us.…
Cassandra Jackson
Family Lawyer
Cassandra Jackson completed her articles with a law firm in Edmonton, Alberta and became an associate lawyer with the firm in June 2017. She opened her firm, Brick & Mortar Law, in 2022. Through her experiences, Cassandra has taken a keen interest in Family Law and has found the work extremely rewarding and fulfilling. She believes that her obligation as a lawyer is to heal conflict and ensure that families are able to move forward in a stable and healthy manner.…
Linda L. Long, Q.C.
Family Lawyer
Linda Long, Q.C. provides full-service collaborative divorce and mediation services, as well as offering family law consultations, assistance with negotiations, and divorce and family law coaching services for self represented clients who may not wish to retain legal counsel for all aspects of their cases. Her 32 years of combined legal and mediation experience, delivered by Linda with a practical, respectful and down to earth approach, provides clients with confidence that their difficult matters are in good hands.…
Renee Moore
Family Lawyer
Over the past 15 years, Ms. Moore’s love of the law and eagerness to assist people has found her at the boardroom table or before the Court. After earning three degrees and having been admitted to three Canadian Bars, she continues to be approachable and hard-working in the interest of justice. Ms. Moore is the founding lawyer of New Beginning Law— created to be a unique environment.…
Riley Gallant
Family Lawyer
Riley has been practicing law family law since 2009. Her professional life is dedicated to helping families navigate the issues that follow a relationship breakdown, including issues relating to parenting, finances and property division. Although Riley is an experienced litigator, she knows that going to court can be slow, stressful and costly. She believes that the best outcomes for families are achieved through a collaborative approach.…
Rebekah Weizman
Rebekah practices exclusively in family law, assisting clients in a wide variety of issues including divorce, family property division, parenting, and child and spousal support issues.
Rebekah has experience representing family law clients in both the Court of King’s Bench and the Alberta Court of Justice. Although she is an experienced advocate in Court, she also has a proven track record in resolving matters outside of Court and she works in the Collaborative process to assist her clients in achieving a resolution outside of court.…
Jessica Chapman
Family Lawyer
Jessica Chapman grew up in High Prairie, Alberta and completed all of her post-secondary education at the University of Alberta. She was called to the bar in Alberta in 2004 after articling at a small firm in Stony Plain. Jessica had a general practice until approximately 2008 when she decided to expand her family law practice. …
Dr Anita Dorczak, M.A, LL.B, PhD, CLP, PC, Cert. EM
Family Lawyer
Practice governed by kindness and compassion
Over 25 years of experience
Fluent in 3 languages
After many years of practice I became deeply disillusioned with the adversarial process which I view as ineffective, expensive and failing to respond to the idiosyncrasy of family conflict.
My passion for peacemaking has taken me to teach and present on collaborative law in Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay and Panama and I will continue to promote this model of dispute resolution as more effective and less costly but most importantly best suited for family disputes.…
Wendy M. Phillips-Berard
Family lawyer
I assist people with many of the day-to-day legal issues facing families, including transitioning through a separation, planning for death or incapacity, and purchasing and selling family homes. I am very interested in helping people sort through the confusion and uncertainty around a major life change, in educating them about their legal rights and obligations and supporting them in finding a new path forward.…
Rose-Marie Cassis
Family lawyer
Rose-Marie Cassis graduated from the University of Lethbridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree and is a graduate of the University of Calgary Law School. She has been practicing law in the Edmonton area since 1994.
Rose-Marie is able to assist a client through the emotional and stressful process of a marriage breakdown in a very caring and kind manner. …
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