Abby’s effectiveness stems from her training and experience in conflict resolution, law, and mental health.
Abby helps people in conflict. She is mediator and represents people negotiating a legal solution. Since she is also a therapist, she is a divorce coach (family specialist) for those seeking divorce through the Collaborative process and a conflict coach for people who are in litigation, mediation, or otherwise struggling to find solutions to conflict. Her focus its to help navigate through discord and change. Abby facilitates family and team discussions to enhance communication, understanding, creative problem-solving and resolution. She has experience in guiding people to reduce conflict and manage emotional reactions that interfere with the capacity to consider a satisfactory solution.
ABOUT
MEET ABBY
A NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Abby draws on her acute understanding of the emotional barriers to resolving charged conflicts. Abby is experienced counseling people through life changes such as divorce, the loss of a loved one, and caring for an elderly parent. She is well versed in the needs of the disabled and those individuals who identify as part of the LGBTQ community. She is a trained parenting coordinator.
OTHER PLACES YOU CAN FIND HER
As a partner at Berkman Bottger Newman & Schein, LLP, Abby mediates a wide range of family disputes with compassion and efficiency, including divorce/separation, custody/visitation, elder care/planning, as well as those arising in the context of family-owned businesses. Abby serves on a variety of court-affiliated dispute resolution panels.
Pivotal Moments provides a structured program available in private and corporate settings for people who would like to or are forced by circumstances to make a significant change. Whether we initiate the change or it happens to us, we are bound to face some internal conflict that will test our current thinking and behaviors and will need help with the challenges that inevitably arise. Pivotal Moments is designed to help people gain clarity, advance with confidence, achieve a sustainable transformation, and construct solutions.
