My Ex and I hired Shiela based on her claims to be an expert mediator on her website. We found that Sheila has no mediation experience what-so-ever. When the two of us would come to an impass, Sheila sat back and let us argue for hours at a time, all the while racking up time that translates directly into dollars - often with no resolution. I felt that she should met with us separately or at least used some mediation techniques to calm the meeting down. My experience with Sheila turned out to be disasterous, communication with my Ex rapidly deteriorated and Sheila did nothing to help rectify any of the situations that came up in our meetings.
In addition, Sheila is an administrative nightmare. She did not send out emails to follow up questions or request information or paperwork needs from either of us - even if one of us requested. It was as if she expected us to do it for her. She often did not know where we left off from the last meeting and did not remember many details that were actually worked out.
In the end, she asked for more money to finalize our divorce and child support obligations, and quite frankly, we would have been better off paying less to a couples therapist and working out the details of our separation, then go to someone to just file the paperwork.
Cons: She runs her business like a cab drive, taking you around the block a few times and then making you pay because she got lost.
If you have any sort of issues, do not expect Sheila to handle them, she is simply a clerk that knows how to file paperwork with the courts, I don't see much else value in her services.
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