THERE’S A BETTER WAY THROUGH THIS
You've made the decision. Now you need to get through it – with everything that matters most still intact.
Your financial security. Your ability to show up for your kids. Your sense of who you are on the other side of this.
You're not looking for a fight. You're looking for a way through.
Divorce is one of the hardest things a person navigates.
The process should help you do that – with clarity, dignity, and care.
That's exactly what this is.
Flat-fee mediation. Massachusetts-based. Virtual or in-person.
Mediation, the way it should have always worked.
Most people come in thinking the mediator decides for them.
I don't.
My job is to sit between you – neutral, steady, and fully present – while you co-create an agreement you both understand, both chose, and can both actually live with.
No judge deciding your future. No opposing counsel escalating every disagreement. No process designed to extract the worst from both of you.
Just a structured, thoughtfully paced conversation – one that's designed around how people actually think and feel under stress.
Because here's what most mediators don't account for:
When you're in the middle of a divorce, your nervous system is not okay.
And you cannot make clear, lasting decisions from that place.
So before we talk terms, we create the conditions where clear thinking is possible.
That's what makes agreements stick.
About Mardi
I spent twenty-seven years in family law – much of it in high-conflict cases where I watched the legal system take an already painful situation and make it worse.
I also went through my own divorce.
So when I say I understand what you're walking into – I mean that from the inside, not just the file.
That experience changed how I practice.
I've spent years doing my own work – learning how to stay steady in rooms full of conflict, how to regulate myself when the pressure is high, and how to create a space where hard conversations can actually happen.
Not because I'm going to do that work for you.
But because I know what it takes to hold a container where you can.
What I bring into the room is twenty-seven years of legal expertise, a deep understanding of how people navigate high-stress decisions, and a process designed to give you the awareness and conditions to think clearly — even in the middle of one of the hardest transitions of your life.
You bring the willingness to do the work.
Together, we'll get you to agreements you can actually live with.
Located in the Greater Newburyport area (including Amesbury, Salisbury, Merrimac, Haverhill, Rowley). Available in-person or virtual. Serving all of Massachusetts. Your local integrative divorce mediator.
Reviews
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Shauna L.
“Mardi's dedication to helping me navigate the difficult & sensitive family court proceedings not only saved my relationship with my son, but ultimately reunited our family. Her rapport with & working knowledge of the court helped us anticipate & execute the appropriate steps needed to mitigate & meet both my son's needs & the concerns of the court. Her honest & savvy ability to straddle the line as both a respected member of the court & a caring member of humanity gave me the support, insight & confidence needed to traverse such an uncomfortably intimate journey to triumphant completion.”
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Todd B.
“Mardi brings an amazing collection of skills to bear to make a very challenging time just a little easier. From true legal advice, and guidance, mixed with her deep mediation skills - all serve to try and minimize costs - financial, emotional and karmic costs. She can be grounded, deliberate and forceful without coming across as shrill, arrogant or not caring, which helps make the divorce process feel less "us versus them." In the end, I felt like I had made a lifelong friend and partner that helped me through a very difficult time in my life, and I'm forever grateful.”
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John B.
Mardi is a total professional. She thoroughly reviews the facts of the case, considers all options, and makes sound recommendations. She provides a honest service based on the customer’s needs and not on the firms’ Effort to make money.
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