Talia specializes in aligning cost-effective, and realistic paths forward for families that proactively reduce conflict and re-establish consistency as well as calm. Her role is to guide folks and facilitate conversations that help to figure out the unfigureoutable.

She began her career at assault services also two decades ago, she’s been fortunate to have led a wide variety of local, regional, domestic, and international teams towards the elevation of support and equity for vulnerable people in challenging circumstances inclusive but not limited to family violence, intimate partner violence, mental illness, substance misuse, homelessness, poverty, crisis, and trauma. She practices from a culturally humble, child-focused, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-affirming perspective where she aims to hold equitable space for folks to feel heard, and find solutions for their families.

She has extensive lived experience, education, and professional experience working with families navigating heightened conflict. She has received training from a broad range of well-respected institutions, organizations, universities, and professionals including but not limited to Family Mediation Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the Canadian Police Knowledge Network, the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, Harvard Law School, the Institute of Child Psychology, the Crisis and Trauma Research Institute of Canada, the High Conflict Institute, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, University of Salford’s Master of Psychology programme with a specialization in coercive control, and Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse (RESOLVE).

Those who work with Talia often note she’s soft-spoken, insightful, and gets things done.