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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.…
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. …
Tammy Olson
Family Lawyer
Tammy graduated law school in 2003 from the University of Saskatchewan before moving to Edmonton and commencing her legal career in Alberta. Since 2006 Tammy has practiced exclusively in the area of family law. For over a decade Tammy has been an aggressive litigation lawyer handling matters within the Court system. However many years of experience in practicing family law has demonstrated that family law disputes are not well suited to the adversarial nature of litigation. …
Amanda Venner
Amanda has been practicing family law since 2020. Her practice is dedicated exclusively to family law. She believes that a collaborative approach often provides the best result for a family. Clients know their family better than anyone and are often able to come up with creative solutions about the issues facing their families.
Amanda was born and raised in Edmonton and has a genuine affection for what the city has to offer.…
Patricia E. Gay
Family lawyer
I was born and raised in central Alberta, growing up on the farm with 4 siblings and many pets. After graduating from Bentley High School, I left home and entered the working world, until, finding myself a single mother with two small children to support, I registered for and was accepted into the Arts program at the University of Alberta and after two years of undergraduate study, I applied for and was accepted into the Faculty of Law.…
James Bird
Jim is a Registered Collaborative Family Lawyer. Jim has extensive training in mediation and alternative dispute resolution strategies and applies those skills when helping clients resolve matters outside of Court. For his family law clients, Jim’s experience has taught that with the assistance of the right counsel and other professionals through the Collaborative Family Law process, most matters can be resolved with better outcomes and greater client satisfaction than through the traditional Court route.…
Marla S. Miller, Q.C.
Family lawyer
Marla has been an integral part of the Collaborative Divorce movement in Edmonton, being one of the founding members of the Edmonton Association and spearheading the initial training in Edmonton in 2001 by bringing in the founder of Collaborative Divorce, Stu Webb. She continues her role with the Edmonton Association on an almost daily basis.
Having been influenced early on in her legal career by the mediation training she received over 30 years ago, Marla gave up court as an option well before the advent of Collaboration as a formal process.…
Heather Malaryk
Family Lawyer
Heather’s focus is on helping people create solutions that work for them in a cost-efficient way, while preserving their assets and their important relationships. She named her firm after the star, Merak. It is one of the two stars in the Big Dipper that points the way to the North Star, which has long served as a landmark for travellers without a compass.…
Karim Mawani
Family Lawyer
Karim has been practicing law for 26 years. He came to Collaborative Practice after realizing that litigation left behind too many fractured families. Karim recognizes that Collaborative Practice allows his clients to keep their integrity and self-esteem as they prepare for a new phase of their lives. He is particularly concerned for the parent child-relationship: “You never stop being a parent, and the way you can parent your children now influences the relationships they will have for the rest of their lives.”
Karim wants his clients to be able to form new relationships that are better and stronger and to successfully co-parent.…
Andrea Campbell
Family lawyer
Andrea was born and raised in Camrose, Alberta. Andrea began her university career studying psychology at the University of Alberta, graduating with distinction in 2005. She went on to obtain her law degree at the University of Alberta in 2008. Andrea returned to Camrose in the summer of 2008 to article and practise law at Farnham West Stolee Kambeitz LLP.…
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