First mediation firm to focus on marriage, divorce and family in the US Washington metropolitan area.

Divorce360.com (now wevorce.com) found staggering results in their 2008 survey: when filing divorce through courts, couples with at least one child spend from USD 53,000 to 188,000, including legal fees, financial advisory fee, consultation fee and fees associated with post-divorce housing arrangement. If assets are not clearly divided and child custody is also involved, the amount of time and energy needed will be even harder to estimate. In addition to time and money, the cold nature of court procedures further puts couples and children under tremendous pressure, furthering the psychological harm they suffer.

Don't Let Your Divorce Become a Disaster!

Shuangying mediation, LLC. has been 25+ years of expertise on family and marriage cases of over 10,000 hours, helping over 1,000 families.

Many people still do not know that family mediation exists. Far too many people do not know how many things professional family mediators can help with. Especially in cases of divorce, far too many people, including children of all ages, suffer unnecessary anguish and trauma because people do not know what family mediators can do. All over the U.S.A. and in most parts of the world, family mediators can help people make their decisions, put them in writing, and avoid adversarial litigation.

Family mediation is private and confidential. Mediators are required to be impartial. Our role is to help people negotiate constructively and create solutions that work for them in their unique circumstances. Isn’t that the best way to resolve family problems?

Over the past 25 years, I have been providing family and marriage services, with case experience of over 10,000 hours and helping over 1,000 families.

The first and only firm in the US Washington Metropolitan area provides marriage and divorce win-win mediation services for Chinese families. In launching the federal government's project on 甜蜜幸福之家 , I have seen countless couples part ways and many once-happy families become broken, but have also witnessed many couples that have undergone hardship together ending up reconciliation and taking their relationship t the next level of happiness. All these point to the need of increasing the common knowledge of marriage and family, as well as removing hidden risk for marriages, in order to build and maintain marriage on a solid and pure basis. For this, I conduct public courses on "7 rules of Happy Marriage", "How to cultivate emotionally intelligent children" and "How to Co-Parent after Divorce".

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Ms. Chau received graduate training from the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, the first university program that offered PhD training for Conflict Resolution in the United States. She has mediated complex community and family disputes since 2010 and received over 200 hours of training on mediation.

She is currently a family mediator in the Washington Metropolitan area (DMV - DC, Maryland, Virginia), a facilitator for Restorative Conferencing, and an evaluator for a training program for a Federal agency.

Change starts with the first step: After you fill out the online form, I will be in contact with you within one business day. I will be scheduling a free 30 minute consultation over the phone with you to let me understand you better and to identify how we can help.

1. At least 48 hours in advance is needed for appointment through email or phone, along with payment for one session. Notice of at least 24 hours in advance is needed for cancellation; otherwise payment for the session will be charged for no show.


2. Frequency and Number of Sessions:
   
   

   ✔	Marriage Reconciliation: Typically once a week, twice a week under some circumstances. Consultation may be reduced to only once biweekly or monthly at the later stage, until you believe no further therapy session is needed. On average, clients can experience the dramatic changes in the quality of their marriage after three sessions. 12 or more sessions stabilize and deepen these changes.
   ✔	Divorce Mediation: On average, 2 to 5 sessions are needed until the signing of a win-win agreement, with each session lasting 2 hours, depending on the emotions and needs of clients.

In order to provide you with the best quality of services, please read, fill in and sign the forms I will be providing you after your appointment reservation.

During my consultation period, I will periodically review the initial proposal and continue to check upon progress made to see if any revision or supplement in order to meet the expected outcomes.

✔	Confidentiality: Clients' privacy is my responsibility. Confidentiality applies to all content shared with us, including phone conversations. Confidentiality continues to apply even after the service has ended. However, we have a legal duty to report to agencies if your or others' lives are threatened, in order to ensure your or others' life safety.
✔	100% Guarantee: No fee if not successful

There is no charge for a phone consultation (30 minutes) about whether family mediation would be helpful for you and the other person or people involved in decision-making.

Our standard rate is $250 per hour, with sessions usually lasting 2 hours. For many couples two or three 2-hour sessions (plus homework) are enough. Mediation services include time in meetings, time writing drafts of Agreements, and non-trivial amounts of time used in phone and email discussions. Well-prepared couples with no minor children sometimes need only one face-to-face meeting and a little follow-up by email and phone.

Our standard rate is $350 per hour, with sessions usually lasting 2 hours. You may choose a team of one male and one female mediator, or two males, or two females.

Our flat fee for up to 10 hours working with one mediator is $2,000. This usually turns out to be about 6 hours of face-to-face mediation and about 4 hours of time writing your agreement and checking details by email and phone — a $2,500 value for only $2,000. The flat fee must be paid in full at the end of the first meeting to qualify for this rate. If you complete your agreement and use less time than 10 hours, we refund the difference between $2,000 and what you would have paid at our normal hourly rate. For example, if you paid $2,000 in advance and then needed only 4 hours of meeting time and 2 hours of writing time (6 hours total at $250/hour = $1,500), then we would refund $500 ($2,000 paid in advance minus $1,500 for 6 hours = $500). If you used 8 hours or more for mediation, there would be no refund, because the normal fee for 8 hours is $2,000.

You can make that decision at the end of your first session.

Our group includes mediators who are willing to accept lower fees from clients with low incomes.