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How to Contact Us [back
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Email: RiversMediation@aol.com
Phone: 215-266-0598.
Ask for Max or Elise.
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What Clients Are Saying About Us
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"You did
a mediation with us about 3 weeks ago… I wanted to say it was
really great ...Thank you very, very much, it was extremely helpful.
It was great. [My husband] really felt like he was heard and I
felt I was heard too." - Married Couple
"Wow! Your communication skills blow my socks off! If I
had asked you four or five months ago there would have been no
issue... Thanks for diffusing what could have been an explosive
problem!" - Tenant/Landlord issue
"We deeply appreciate your
insightful guidance and clarity as you assisted us in becoming
present to the joy we can create in our relationship."
- Unmarried
Couple
"You two
are amazing! [We] are so grateful for your skillful, heartful
mediation session with us!"
- Friends
Working Out Old Issues
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Photo by: Amy Sophia Marashinsky
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Who Are We [back
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Max and Elise
Rivers are Two Rivers Mediation. We are life-partners as well
as co-mediators. Both were trained by TMTC (The Mediation
and Training Collaborative) in Mediation and CHINS (Children in
Need of Services) in Greenfield MA. We have also taken advanced
mediation trainings from MWI (Mediation Works, Inc.) in Facilitation,
and Max has is also Certified in Negotiation (MWI), Divorce Mediation
(Berkshire Mediation) and Victim Offender Dialogues (Brattleboro
Community Justice Center) (See Max's Resume).
Elise is also an attorney and acupuncturist.
We are members of ACR (Alternative Conflict Resolution - the
national organization of mediators).
Elise is a graduate of the Priestess Path Training which reclaims
women's history and power. Max was the Director of the Boston
Men's Center for 15 years, running hundreds of men's groups and
workshops across the Northeast including Interface in Boston and
the NY Open Center.
Together they are pioneering the use of mediation to help committed
couples work through their differences and learn to communicate
constructively.
Our own spiritual path is called Jewish Renewal, which is an
experiential form of Mystical Judaism. For clients who have a
spiritual bent, we can use the spiritual metaphors of your practice
and help you become the kind of person your highest self envisions
in your dealings with your partners in life.
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When Are We Available? [back to top]
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Sessions
last 1.5 hours. We sometimes do hour sessions for our graduated clients who have
an issue come up that they just need a bit of help getting over.
Since most clients
prefer mediating evenings and weekends, we have timeslots available
during those times. We also are available days by appointment.
Contact us for current time slots which
are open.
Other Options:
Besides our
Mt. Airy (NW Philly, PA) office, we are also available to come
to your office or home (there is an extra charge, depending
on travel time).
We can also
do mediations over the phone. If either or both participant(s)
are too distant to come to Mt. Airy, we can do speaker-phone
mediations. Our experience has been surprisingly good in cases
where this was necessary.
Contact us to schedule an appointment.
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Our Guarantees [back
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We're so sure Couples Mediation can make a difference,
we're willing to Guarantee It!
Risk Free First Session.
At the end of the first session, if
both of you don't agree that this process seems right for you,
we'll help you consider what might work, and you don't pay
for the session.
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How Much Does It Cost? [back to top]
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For couples with children and infants, we have professional
childcare workers who will occupy your children in the
next room (or on our roomy porch and lawn on nice days)
during your session.
We subsidize this cost, paying 50% of the $30/session
fee so you pay only $15.
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Sliding scale rates for
Couples Mediation
Sessions
are generally one and a half hours long.
Average number of sessions for one major issue: 3-6.
Price Guarentee
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Couples Mediation:
Combined
Income Level
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Cost for
1.5 hour
Session
1 Mediator*
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Discount Cost
for each
1.5 hour session
if you pre-pay for
6
sessions
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Discount Cost
for each
1.5 hour
session
if you pre-pay for
7-12
sessions
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Discount Cost
for each
1.5 hour
session
if you pre-pay for
13+
sessions
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0-$49,000
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$200
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$150
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$140
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$135
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$50,000+
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$250
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$200
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$185
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$175
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$150,000+
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$300
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$250
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$235
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$225
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First Session
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Other Sessions
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Single Client
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$150/hr
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$100/hr rest
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Hardship
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$100/1.5 hr
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$75/1.5 hr
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Hardship requires special agreement |
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Parent/Teen
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$100/1.5hr
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$75/1.5 hr
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*For second mediator
add $75 to package session; $100 to regular session price
Compare this to the average costs
of divorce using attorneys:
- Uncontested: $16,000
- Contested, no children:
$45,000
- Contested with custody
issues: $75,000
- Contested with full
trial: $150,000
Discounts:
Weekly Non-Violent
Communication (NVC) class:
Intro to NVC: Mondays
6:45-7:00 pm is free.
NVC
Practice Class: Mondays 7:30-9:30 pm is $15/class.
Package Deal: Prepay for 6 classes and get one class
free! $60 for 6 classes (available on or before the 1st class
only).
We tithe 10% to the CNVC world organization. To encourage
our clients to continue the work they begin with us:
- Our Mediation clients get a discount of 20% on NVC/MVC
classes, and
- TRM Workshop participants get a 10% discount,
TRM Workshop participants also get a $20 discount on
their first mediation with us.
Other Charges:
Mediations off-site have a surcharge depending on distance.
Some types of mediation which have a lot of administrative
work between sessions (like divorce) have an added hourly fee.
Cancellations:
No charge if at least 24 hours notice, otherwise 1/2 the
cost of a session.
Clients who buy packages of four sessions:
- Canceling a pre-paid package visit leaves you
with the same number of visits in your package (if you were
unable to have your second session, your next session counts
as your second);
- Canceling all the rest of your sessions in the
package will mean a refund of a portion of your pre-payment,
with the sessions already done charged at the non-package
rate (so if your package rate was $200/session and you completed
two sessions, and the non-package rate was $250/session,
you would be refunded from the four-session prepayment of
$800 less two non-package sessions at $250 or $800-$500=$300).
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