Personal Counseling & Family Mediation Expert

Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A. Ask potential counselors or mediators how they would handle various scenarios you are currently dealing with. Trust your instinct. Ask about their background, experience, training, and specialities. Ask about their fees, policy for missed sessions, and payment plans. Ask whether or not fees have to be paid at the time of service or can one wait for insurance payments.

For most insurance and employee assistance programs, at least one of the clinicians at Blair Counseling and Mediation is in-network. Out-of-network benefits are available for all clinicians and are often comparable to in-network benefits. Please call and we will explain how. Blair Counseling and Mediation will bill your insurance company or employee assistance program as a courtesy, if you wish. Please call and we will help you determine your cost per session.

Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?

A. Success depends on the abilities of the client more than the clinician. The connection between the client and clinician is the next most important factor, and to a lesser extent the ability to create hope and the use of evidence-based practices.

Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?

A. The combination of counseling and mediation gives clients an optional approach to effectively deal with the complexity of situation and problems they face.

Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A. What's the difference between counseling and mediation?

Blair Counseling and Mediation works to provide tools that can be used to save relationships, manage depression or anxiety, and help children with behavioral concerns. We are certified to complete anger evaluations and anger management sessions for court. We also provide a respectful and understanding approach to addiction. The role of the mediator on the other hand is to provide a neutral setting to understand underlying interests and priorities of each party of a dispute and clarify communication between them. The goal of mediation is to create options and customize resolutions in a cost-effective way, and to reduce stress on the family. The agreements are mutual and no party should feel coerced or pressured into agreement.

Q. Write your own question and answer it.

A. What issues in a divorce can be mediated?

Decisions that have to be made in a divorce process include (but are not limited to) parenting, custody, division of assets/liabilities, child and spousal support, insurance, and tax filing. Blair Counseling and Mediation can mediate all or part of a dispute.