Recognized Expertise.

Jennifer Suzor is a skilled mediator and trainer known for her expertise in conflict resolution and effective communication. With a background in law and alternative dispute resolution and almost four decades of working with family breakdown, she brings a nuanced understanding of both legal frameworks and interpersonal dynamics to her work. Jennifer is particularly noted for her ability to facilitate discussions in high-stress environments, helping parties navigate their differences to reach mutually beneficial solutions.

Jennifer is Accredited in Family, Intergenerational and Child Protection Mediation by the Ontario Association for Family Mediation. She has successfully helped over a thousand families find a more peaceful future. Former clients have commented on her intuitive ability to listen to them and understand what is important, guiding them to find the solutions that work for them in a timely and efficient manner. Counsel have appreciated her ability to help their clients focus on the issues at hand while also assisting the clients to process through the complex emotions and conflict arising from separation.

As a trainer of mediators, she emphasizes practical techniques and strategies, equipping individuals and organizations with the tools needed to manage conflicts constructively. Her engaging style, combined with a focus on empathy and active listening, helps foster a collaborative atmosphere in her workshops and training sessions. Overall, Jennifer is dedicated to promoting peaceful resolutions and enhancing communication skills in both personal and professional contexts. She considers herself first, and last, a peacemaker.

Families need help after separation. There are two paths before them. One leading to continued conflict and one leading to peace.
— Jennifer Suzor

A modern approach

Jennifer has a simple philosophy about family breakdown. Separation is stressful and potentially damaging. She believes mediators provide a safe place and space for tough conversations.

“At some point over 95% of cases settle. Mediation allows families to roll up their sleeves, get the right information and make the tough choices that keep their finances in their control and their pockets”.

Families shouldn't experience more conflict and more stress as they move forward. They need guidance and information about the law and support in having their discussion and seeing the available options. Her favorite quote is "why cut what you can untie."

Our Services

We offer a variety of mediation packages so that clients can choose what works best for them. Additional hours can be purchased as needed.

Bronze Package

If you have relatively low conflict between you and want to mediate to work out parenting, support and some simpler property like deciding on your matrimonial home, with related issues, this package provides enough time for most people to do that. Once you have resolved the issues, you will receive a written Mediation Report. You can choose whether to hire a lawyer of your choosing to incorporate those terms into a formal Separation Agreement, or you can choose to use the terms from the Report to create your own Agreement, signing in front of witnesses to make it binding. Jennifer will discuss this with you further in your appointments and guide you in this process. We also have a list of lawyers that will help you do this.

This package includes:

  • Private intake session for each client

  • Up to two joint sessions of approximately two hours each

  • Drafting of a Mediation Report and any progress notes

  • Additional sessions can be purchased as needed

$1,500 | Get started

When there are more complicated issues, such as more than one home, pensions, businesses, or spousal support disagreements, and/or a higher degree of conflict, this package provides additional time to work through those issues. You may have already hired counsel who will either attend the joint session or support you in the background, or even if one party has done this, this package provides additional hours for communicating with the lawyers or other professionals and assisting you with the financial disclosure required to support your agreement.

This package includes:

  • private intake session with each client

  • review of any Mediation Briefs and any financial disclosure prior to the joint session

  • Up to two joint sessions of up to three hours each, or three shorter sessions

  • Discussions with the lawyers or other professionals to resolve any outstanding issues between or after sessions

  • Drafting of Mediation Report that will be incorporated into an Agreement by your lawyer or one you select to hire

  • Additional sessions can be purchased as needed

    $2500 | Get started

Silver Package

Our Gold Package provides the Silver level service with the addition of providing a specially trained family lawyer for each client. These lawyers will support your goal of working things out in mediation and staying amicable and keeping fees low and fixed. This package will provide you with the mediation time you need to resolve issues, and then each of you with one of the lawyers from our network to complete the drafting of the Separation Agreement and signing.

This package includes:

  • Private intakes sessions for each client

  • Review of any Mediation Briefs and any financial disclosure prior to the joint session

  • Up to two joint sessions of up to three hours each, or three shorter sessions

  • Discussions with the lawyers to resolve any outstanding issues

  • Drafting of the Mediation Report

  • Connection to a lawyer from our network at the beginning of the process for a pre-mediation session and then following for the drafting of the Separation Agreement and signing

$4,600 | Get started

Gold Package

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