Mediation is helpful in family matters, in schools, business, and organizations facing an ever-increasing diversity of cultures, beliefs and personalities and who wish to find an acceptable and positive resolution to everyone’s concerns. This is practiced by professional mediators, lawyers, and counselors. When a therapist is also providing mediation, it can be very helpful in many situations. For example, when couples are considering separation or divorce and when looking for a non-adversarial resolution as compared to only using legal representation. The advantage of having a therapist act as a mediator is that all parties will have developed trust in the knowledge of the issues. For example, regarding the children, which is essential for such mediation work. However, it is also a challenge for the therapist to appear as impartial or neutral unless all parties have agreed on this role. If the counselor does not feel the right conditions exist for this perception of impartiality, they can consider a different professional to act as mediator.