Seamus brings vast experience and knowledge as a Certified Mediator with a solid grounding in family business, self-employment and in the last nineteen years as a Senior Social Worker working with families experiencing conflict.
His lived experience has been bolstered by his undergraduate study in Sociology and Psychology, a Masters in Social Work, and ongoing extensive training in The Developing Child, Attachment Training, Parental Alcohol Misuse and its Impact on Children, Domestic Sexual and Gender-based Violence, and Managing Challenging Behaviour.
Seamus has a wealth of experience of supporting families through conflict arising from couple’s relationship, separation and divorce, parents of children in care, custody and access conflict, adult sibling conflict, and family business and succession planning conflict. Seamus has valuable experience to identify the value of mediation as a dispute resolution approach.
Seamus practices mediation through a transformative lens ensuring a high-quality, professional and supportive mediation, and lending itself to strict impartiality and client self-empowerment, which is underpinned by a significant knowledge of attachment. This creates a safe, empathic, and non-judgemental environment in which the party can seek their agreed outcome.
Seamus is available to mediate adult family conflict, separating/divorcing couples, separated couples of children subject to Court proceedings, family business conflict and family business succession planning.