Child-Inclusive Mediation
Centering your child's voice without placing them in the middle.
What is Child-Inclusive Mediation?
When parents separate or divorce, children often experience big emotions they don't yet have the words to express. Child-Inclusive Mediation is a research-informed approach that helps parents better understand their child's experience.
The goal is to create parenting plans that truly support your child's emotional, developmental, and relational needs — not just divide time on a calendar.
This process is not about children choosing sides or making adult decisions. Instead, it ensures that their perspective is thoughtfully and professionally understood, then carefully brought into the mediation in a way that supports — not burdens — them.
Why include your child's voice?
They feel heard and emotionally safe
Children who know their experience was considered show significantly better long-term emotional outcomes after parental separation.
Parents understand needs beneath the surface
What looks like "acting out" often has a story beneath it. Child-inclusive sessions surface that story.
Plans reflect developmental reality
We build plans that account for who your child actually is — their temperament, their stage, their relationships.
Conflict is reduced
When both parents understand their child's experience from a shared, trusted source, conversations shift from positions to purpose.
The Child-Inclusive Mediation process
Parent Orientation Session
We begin with both parents to explain the process, address questions, and establish the ground rules.
The Child Consultation
Dr. Jones meets privately with your child in a warm, age-appropriate, non-pressured setting to understand their experience, needs, and feelings.
The Child Consultant's Report
Dr. Jones prepares a report summarizing the child's perspective, framed carefully to protect privacy. Shared with both parents together.
Informed Mediation Sessions
With the child's perspective in the room (without the child there), parents engage in mediation grounded in real insight.
The Parenting Plan
Together, you build a parenting plan that reflects your child's actual needs and your family's realities.
Is Child-Inclusive Mediation right for your family?
Even when parents don't agree on everything, child-inclusive mediation often helps shift conversations from positions to purpose — what truly supports your child.
"My role is to guide families through change while preserving what matters most."
— Dr. Eliezer Jones, PhD
Founder, My Child's Voice
Ready to put your child first?
Schedule a free consultation to learn whether child-inclusive mediation is the right fit for your family.