Yvette Walczak

Yvette has a degree in Sociology from the London School of Economics, a social work qualification in medical social work and an advanced counselling qualification from the Tavistock Clinic, where she worked in the Department for Children and Parents.

She has practised as a social worker, family therapist and counsellor in a variety of settings, such as Child Guidance Clinics and a Department of Family and Child Psychiatry. She was a senior lecturer in Social Work at the University of North London. There she also designed and ran an evening mediation course for a number of years. Both she and Ines Weyland taught on the course.

Yvette has acted as a Consultant and Supervisor for Mind and National Family Mediation and currently acts as a Mediation Consultant Supervisor for the Family Mediators Association Resolution and the Legal Services Commission.

Yvette has been a mediator since 1985. She is a member of the Family Mediators Association. She has a special interest in children's issues and her publications include "Divorce, the Child's Point of View".

 

Ines Weyland

Ines has a law degree and a PhD in Jurisprudence from the London School of Economics. She was a senior lecturer in family law at the University of North London. She has a certificate in counselling skills and attitudes from the Westminster Pastoral Foundation.

Ines trained as a mediator at the Institute of Family Therapy in 1985 and since then has practised as a mediator at three different services. She has been accredited as a mediator by National Family Mediation, the Family Mediators Association and by the Legal Services Commission. She is a member of the Family Mediators Association and Resolution.

She has done research in legal philosophy and family law and had articles published on topics such as contact with children, shared residence, child abuse and maintenance agreements and consent orders.