Sabrina Barbara is a professionally trained mediator, NMAS member, and ICEEFT-trained clinician based in Wellington and Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Her practice spans family mediation (including FDR), family financial mediation, voice of child processes, and commercial dispute resolution—serving separated families, parents navigating co-parenting conflict, and businesses and neighbours resolving disputes without litigation.
The Mediation Room is the third site in Sabrina's four-site ecosystem. Where TheRelationshipRoom.nz targets couples questioning their relationship and The Counselling Room serves the broader therapeutic audience, this site needed to speak to a very specific moment: the point at which conflict has reached an impasse and someone is looking for a way forward that isn't court.
The brief was complex: build a site that could address someone in acute separation crisis, someone heading to mediation unprepared, someone contemplating litigation, someone who needs to hear their child's voice in a family dispute—and make clear that mediation is not one-size-fits-all. This work requires six different entry points, not one.
Sabrina Barbara is a professionally trained mediator, NMAS member, and ICEEFT-trained clinician based in Wellington and Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Her practice spans family mediation (including FDR), family financial mediation, voice of child processes, and commercial dispute resolution—serving separated families, parents navigating co-parenting conflict, and businesses and neighbours resolving disputes without litigation.
The Mediation Room is the third site in Sabrina's four-site ecosystem. Where TheRelationshipRoom.nz targets couples questioning their relationship and The Counselling Room serves the broader therapeutic audience, this site needed to speak to a very specific moment: the point at which conflict has reached an impasse and someone is looking for a way forward that isn't court.
The brief was complex: build a site that could address someone in acute separation crisis, someone heading to mediation unprepared, someone contemplating litigation, someone who needs to hear their child's voice in a family dispute—and make clear that mediation is not one-size-fits-all. This work requires six different entry points, not one.
