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2018 156th Avenue NE, Suite 100
Bellevue,
Washington
98005
Phone: 206-547-3166
Fax: 425-883-4751
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Practice areas
- Clinical Consulting
- Child & Family Therapy
- Couple Therapy
- Family Conflict & Adolescent
- Divorce Coaching & Counseling
- Mediation
Mediation Services
Instead of retaining lawyers, you can use a trained impartial third party to help you with any dispute. Mediators are trained in working with parties to reach settlement agreements through compromise. Mediators do not issue orders, find fault, or make determinations. Instead, mediators help parties reach a settlement by assisting with communications, obtaining relevant information, and developing creative options. Mediation is less expensive and less combative. Most people report a higher degree of satisfaction by working toward resolution through mediation than through the court system.
As a trial attorney for 20 years, Washington State Mediated Divorce Attorney Darcia Tudor played hardball in the courtroom, getting the results her clients sought. What she observed time and again, was that even when her clients won the fight, they didn’t walk away happy. They were left with a tremendous sense of loss because the underlying problems were not resolved. She knew that the real issues were not about the house, back payment owed or anything as trivial as a fight over a spatula. Those frustrations were just symbols of the control issues, financial issues and past relationship issues that were never resolved.
On the legal side, Darcia shifted her focus from trial work to mediation, allowing her to create for clients a practical course of action that holds up in court. Today Darcia is one of the few practicing therapists with a law degree in the Seattle area. She focuses her practice on helping families cope with conflict, crisis and change through all stages of life—from at-risk children and adolescent needs, to divorcing and blending families, to caring for elderly parents:
- divorce
- custody
- co-parenting
- residential schedules
- pre-nuptials
- child-support
- probate and estate disputes
Seamlessly blending two areas of professional expertise to create one unique service, her legal experience greatly benefits her clients. Based on experience, she can anticipate the different transitional stages a family will experience as children develop and can help her clients plan for change without returning to court to address future issues.
If you or someone you know in Seattle is seeking mediation for a pending divorce or family matter, contact experienced Washington State Mediated Divorce Lawyer Darcia Tudor toll free at 888-207-6927.
Therapy
My theoretical approach is Systemic and Psychodynamic. Family or systems therapy is a form of psychotherapy based upon the assumption that psychological problems are often rooted in and sustained by systemic relationship, including family, occupational, and social systems. Psychodynamic therapy interprets the unconscious meaning of individual verbalizations and behavior and their impact on individual and family functioning.
By the end of our first or second session, I will tell you how I see your case at this point and how I think we should proceed. I view therapy as a partnership between us. You define the problem areas to be worked on; I use some special knowledge to help you make the changes you want to make. Psychotherapy is not like visiting a medical doctor. It requires your very active involvement. It requires your best efforts to change thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. For example, I want you to tell me about important experiences, what they mean to you, and what strong feelings are involved. This is one of the ways you are an active partner in therapy.
I expect us to plan our work together. In our treatment plan we will list the areas to work on, our goals, the methods we will use, the time and money commitments we will make, and some other things. I expect us to agree on a plan that we will both work hard to follow. From time to time, we will look together at our progress and goals. If we think we need to, we can then change our treatment plan, its goals, and its methods.
An important part of your therapy will be practicing new skills that you will learn in our sessions. I will ask you to practice outside our meetings, and we will work together to set up homework assignments for you. I might ask you to do exercises, to keep records, and perhaps to do other tasks to deepen your learning. You will probably have to work on relationships in your life and make long-term efforts to get the best results. These are important parts of personal change. Change will sometimes be easy and quick, but more often it will be slow and frustrating, and you will need to keep trying. There are no instant, painless cures and no "magic pills." However, you can learn new ways of looking at your problems that will be very helpful for changing your feelings and reactions.
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