Helen Adam
Helen trained as a divorce lawyer and worked in practice in Westminster, gaining considerable experience in financial issues for wealthy clients. She then moved to a practice in Streatham where she was made a partner, and where she acted for a broader range of clients. She has also developed and written material for a course in Divorce and Separation Recovery. She now works exclusively as a family mediator. Helen is married with 3 children.
Cressida Burnet
Cressida trained as family barrister and practised at the Family Bar for 8 years. She worked in areas of family law, including child abduction, residency and contact disputes, care proceedings and some financial work. She ceased working when her eldest child was born in 1997. After five years of running a successful recruitment business, she has moved back into the legal arena, retraining as a family mediator.
Cressida is trained in Direct Consultation with children and is therefore able to see children either within a mediation she is conducting, or , as a consultant to other mediators or organisations.
Carol Rawlence
Carol started and ran a printing business for 20 years. When her family were young, she co-wrote and organised parenting classes based from home for parents of 2 – 10 year olds. She has subsequently helped on various courses about all aspects of parenting, including teenage issues and single parenting. She is also one of a team leading a course in Divorce and Separation Recovery. Carol trained as a mediator with Regents College of Psychotherapy and now runs the community branch of Wandsworth Mediation Service. Carol also works as a family mediator with Mediation Works. Carol has been divorced for 7 years and has 3 teenage children.
Ewan Malcolm
Ewan was a family law solicitor for nearly two decades in Scotland, first training as a mediator in 1995. He then moved into mediation full time when he set up the Scottish Mediation Network office in 2002 (www.scottishmediation.org.uk) and remained its chief officer until 2009 when he moved London. Having clocked up nearly 200 mediations and around 1000 hours at the mediation table, he is considered to be a safe pairs of hands. People who have mediated with him say he is able to rapidly “command the respect and trust of both sides” and manages “to create an environment which allowed very positive discussion”. In 2008 Ewan was named Mediator of the Year at the Law Awards of Scotland. He is also Director of Training for an association of family law mediators.
Helen, Cressida and Carol are all members of the Family Mediators’ Association.
Mediation Works has other professionals available as co-mediators from a broad range of backgrounds including counsellors, experts in addiction, commercial experts and other family lawyers.