About Cheltenham Mediation Services
Working with families in Cheltenham, across Gloucestershire and nationally, we provide a confidential, calm and safe place to enable you to resolve your family mediation difficulties and look forward to the future. We work with a wide variety of different mediation disputes including those concerning:
Family relationships
Property and money on separation
Arrangements for your children
Our trained family mediators have long experience of working with family mediation disputes. They have professional qualifications in law and counselling. Our team are ideally qualified to support you through these difficult decisions.
We are Cheltenham’s oldest mediation practice having been established in 2007.
We see clients face to face at our Cheltenham Offices, as well as online. Many mediators only offer online mediation.
Meet The Team
Rose Keyte
Director
Rose is a Family Mediation Council accredited mediator and a member of the Family Mediators Association and also a Child Inclusive mediator. She practised locally for over 25 years as a family solicitor and has extensive experience of dealing with complex financial disputes and issues concerning children between spouses, civil partners and cohabitees. She is committed to trying to help parents and couples resolve their disputes in as non-confrontational a manner as possible and has mediated successfully with this aim for many years.
Rose is accredited by the FMC. URN 0938A
Anne-Lise Wall
Senior Mediator
Anne-Lise is a senior mediator accredited with the Family Mediators Association and the Family Mediation Council. She practiced as a family lawyer for over 30 years maintaining her mediation practice throughout. She was one of the first family lawyers to train as a mediator in the early 1990’s. Anne-Lise’s career as a Family Lawyer led her to believe strongly that the pain and distress of the divorce court could be avoided using the mediation process. By talking in a calm, supported and structured way, couples can resolve difficult issues relating to parenting their children, or dealing with their finances following separation or divorce, in such a way that they retain control. Anne-Lise has mediated very many cases in this way with great success.
Anne-Lise is accredited by the FMC. URN 0187A
Dr Catherine Frances
Mediator
Catherine gained an MA and PhD in international child abduction, models for co-parenting with associated law and psychology, and worked for the United Nations University in Japan before returning to the UK.
She is accredited by the Family Mediation Council to mediate all issues – property, finances and child arrangements, and is a member of the Family Mediators Association.
Catherine’s passion is to help you avoid going to court as no one needs more stress in their lives.
Catherine is accredited by the FMC. URN 1569A
Emma Powell
Mediator
Emma is a trained Family Mediator working towards accreditation and registered with the Family Mediation Council. Originally trained as a nurse, midwife, and Health Visitor, she has spent the last 25 years working as a couple therapist before becoming a Family Mediator.
Emma has vast experience of helping people to talk through their differences and negotiate their needs to reach workable outcomes. She understands the emotional challenges people face when mediating and attempts to alleviate this by providing a warm, welcoming, and non-judgmental environment for people.
Emma is registered by the FMC. URN 1948T
“Thanks Rose for your hours of hard work, patience, clear mindedness, goal sightedness, impeccable neutrality and personableness throughout the process. It’s fair to say that we would have never been able to arrive at such a quality solution, which took into account all our wants and idiosyncrasies, had we been left to our own devices without your help and that of the Cheltenham Mediation Service.”
Administration Staff
Your first contact is likely to be with one of two assistants, Lynda Taylor or Georgina FitzGerald , who look after the day to day conduct of your file. Both will be able to assist you with any queries regarding the process of mediation.
Lynda joined us in April 2023 after gaining extensive administration experience in the private and public sector.
Georgina joined us in June 2019, having spent most of her career working as solicitor specialising in family law.
“Nice to be offered tea/coffee/water/tissues during a difficult time. Staff were always helpful on the phone etc and kept me informed throughout.”
”You have helped me so much by making a complicated process understandable in simple language and fair methods.”