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Stephanie Palau

Divorce Mediator

“Divorce Mediator”

Buffalo, New York

Core Practice Areas

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✓Family Law Mediation
✓Divorce & Separation
✓Child Custody & Visitation
✓Certified Neutral
✓Court-Approved ADR

About & Mediation Philosophy

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Stephanie Palau is a licensed master social worker, psychotherapist and mediator, with 25+ years of experience. Ms. Palau trained at Columbia University School of Social Work , The International Trauma Studies Program and The Center for Mediation and Training. With a holistic, psychosocial approach, she utilizes an attentive, reflective, and interactive therapeutic process enabling clients to gain deeper self-awareness and insight. In partnerships with her clients, Stephanie facilitates their wellbeing through compassion and has extensive experience supporting individuals, families and children in crisis and through life transitions. Stephanie offers divorce & family mediation for couples who prefer a non-adversarial, cost-effective, and self-determining process in facilitating stressful life events like separation, divorce, creation of parenting plans & parenting coordination. By making decisions yourselves, she helps you find compromise and guide you through the process, beginning to end. Divorce & separation can be difficult, and she will empower you and your partner to make what is a very difficult situation easier by facilitating mediation in a kind and organized manner, from the onset of the process to the settlement and beyond.

Credentials & Institutional Standing

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Licensed Master Social Worker

Education

Center for Mediation & Training

Basic & Advanced Supervised Practicum · Divorce & Family Mediation

Class of 2021

Columbia School of Public Health

Certificate · International Trauma Studies Program

Class of 2006

Columbia University

Masters of Science · Social Work

Class of 1997

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