

General Profile
Sandra is a qualified mediator specializing in Family Mediation who works in public and private practice.
Sandra has worked in Family Mediation as a Mediator for 12 years. Sandra has extensive experience in exploring and generating options with clients thus enabling them to move forward in their lives.
Sandra mediates issues including communication, separation/divorce, parenting agreements, family home, property, financial, pensions etc. Sandra was part of the Dolphin House District Court Pilot Project Mediation which led to a permanent Mediation Office in the District Court. Sandra is presently still working within the Courts Mediation System and all issues Mediation i.e Separation / Divorce.
Sandra’s aim is to help people focus on the future whilst being respectful of the past they shared together. Sandra has a commitment to facilitating comprehensive discussions between clients thus enabling them to arrive at decisions and accomplish their own agreements which they both believe to be fair. These discussions and decisions take place in a non adversarial and confidential environment using a structured process which focuses on the whole family.
“I have the utmost respect for people who choose mediation” says Sandra. “My aim is that people who come to me for mediation feel that they have been listened to, understood, that I have been fair and non judgmental in facilitating their negotiations"
Mediation Qualifications
- - Certificate in Mediation and Conflict Resolution with Athena Mediation
- - FMS Practitioner Family Mediation Training Programme (12 months)
- - Training workshops relating to family and separating couples include: Effective Relating Training, Communicating Across Language Barriers, Social Welfare, Pensions, Family Law, Domestic Abuse
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- - Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy with PCI College Dublin 22 November 2006
Education
- Advanced Practitioner Mediator 2010
- Dip in Child Consultation within Mediation.
Relevant Positions
- - Family Mediator in Private Practice
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Roles held within the MII
- Advanced Member of MII. Certified Member of the Mediators Institute of Ireland
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