Family Mediation Staffordshire | Caroline Browne

Caroline is committed to helping couples and families find resolution on finances, children and any relationship topics to improve communication, reminding clients of the importance of a future focused approach.

She is aware of the importance of clear communication and is able to facilitate open and respectful dialogue. She mediates in Family, Civil, Commercial and Workplace cases.

Creative, approachable and perceptive, Caroline combines strong analytical and interpersonal skills with attention to detail. She seeks to help parties identify innovative solutions, by finding resolution through a measured and structured process.

She is CMC Accredited for Workplace, Civil and Commercial and is registered with the Family Mediation Council WTA for divorce, separation, children and financial matters. She is also a member of the Family Mediation Association (FMA).

Her background as a solicitor, trainer and legal tutor ensures she has a wide range of commercial awareness and experience working with clients in a variety of industries. She also has experience in corporate coaching, both at a national and international level.

She provides professional training to non-native English speakers and is well-equipped to support those working in English a second language. She also has experience working with neurodiverse clients. She is a Level 2 qualified counsellor.

Caroline has a wide range of experience working with clients both face to face and online.

In her spare time she enjoys keeping active, being outdoors and cooking.

Rachel is an accredited mediator with over 10 years’ experience in supporting couples and families to resolve disputes. She works with clients to help them navigate issues arising from family breakdown, including the arrangements for separation, divorce, finances, and arrangements for children.

Education and Experience 

Rachel previously worked as a specialist family lawyer for over 15 years. She worked for a large National Law Firm and was recognised in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners legal guides.

She has the following qualifications:

• LLB Law Degree and Legal Practice Course
• Qualified solicitor since 2008, non-practising from June 2025
• Accredited Family Mediator
• Qualified Child-Inclusive Mediator

Professional Memberships 

Rachel is a member of Resolution and is committed to helping couples and families resolve disputes out of court whenever possible.

Personal Interests 

Outside of work Rachel has a young family which keeps her busy. She enjoys good food and wine, live music, swimming and keeping fit.

Desrine Edwards is a qualified social worker, family mediator and a highly experienced children’s advocate, with over a decade of experience supporting children and families through change. She is passionate about helping families find clarity, connection and constructive solutions during times of change. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work, a PGCE in Lifelong Learning, and a BA (Hons) in Youth and Community Studies. She completed her family mediation training with LADR in July 2025 and is currently working towards full accreditation. Desrine is also a proficient Portuguese speaker.

From 2020 until late 2024, Desrine worked as a Family Court Adviser at Cafcass, gaining extensive experience in private law and children’s advocacy. Her decision to transition into family mediation was driven by a desire to empower families to make their own decisions and to use her skill set in a more collaborative and solution-focused way. Since 2022, Desrine has been working with the National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS), where she continues to represent children’s wishes and feelings in private law proceedings, under the rule 16.4 cases, where a child is made a party to proceedings.

Desrine’s practice is grounded in safeguarding and emotional wellbeing, with a strong emphasis on ensuring that children are heard in decisions that affect their lives. Her approach encourages families to reflect on how their relationships and communication patterns affect one another, helping them find constructive ways to move forward.

Drawing on her background in youth work, teaching, and social care, Desrine brings a holistic, child-focused approach to her mediation practice. She also develops resources to help families navigate transitions with empathy and clarity, believing that every child deserves to understand what is happening in their lives and to have a meaningful voice in shaping their future.

Family Mediation 

Esther has been providing specialist Family Mediation services to families and their children for over 11 years. She is a skilled mediator, helping families make decisions about their children and their finances. She is also trained to speak to children as part of the mediation process after completing her Direct Consultation with children training in 2015.

Education and Experience 

Esther is a member of the Family Mediation Council. She completed and passed her family mediation training with the Family Mediation Association in 2012.

Family Law

Esther has a BA (Hons) law degree from Wolverhampton University in 1997. She furthered her legal education and completed her training with the Institute of Legal Executives and became a qualified Fellow in 2002. Esther has worked as a family lawyer as a Chartered Legal Executive in a legal practice for the past 26 years since leaving University.

Professional Memberships 

Esther has also been a member of Resolution as a Lawyer, reflecting her commitment to best practices in Family Law. She adheres the core values in her work every day by helping separating couples reach amicable and effective arrangements for their children, and when resolving their financial affairs on divorce or separation. Esther is committed to upholding the core values of Resolution, helping separating couples find amicable solutions for their family matters.

Personal Interests 

Outside her professional life, Esther enjoys spending time with her 3 grown up children and partners grandchildren. She enjoys cycling, running and keeping fit, and enjoys weekends away with her partner, including long walks along the welsh coast.

Family Mediation 

Louise has been providing specialist Family Mediation services to local families for almost a decade. She is a skilled mediator, helping families make decisions about their children and their finances. Louise is registered with the Family Mediation Council as an accredited family mediator.

Family Law

Louise is a family lawyer. She is an accomplished legal professional with 20 years of experience in family law and has, for the past 14 years, headed up the family law department at a firm of solicitors in Shropshire, taking the role of director in her latter years in legal practice.

Louise is now a non-practising solicitor, having decided to pursue her Family Mediation practice full-time, bringing with her two decades of experience in family law.

Education and Experience 

Louise is a member of Resolution. She completed and passed her family mediation training with Resolution in April 2016 and completed her refresher training in March 2023 with LADR.

Louise earned her law degree from Nottingham Trent University in 2004, graduating with a 2:1. She furthered her legal education with a post-graduate LPC at the College of Law, London, qualifying with Commendation in 2005. Louise started working in the family law team of a firm in the South-East in 2005 and qualified as a Solicitor in August 2007.

Professional Memberships 

Louise has been a proud member of Resolution throughout her legal and mediation career, reflecting her commitment to best practices in Family Law. She adheres the core values in her work every day by helping separating couples reach amicable and effective arrangements for their children, and when resolving their financial affairs on divorce or separation. Louise is committed to upholding the core values of Resolution, helping separating couples find amicable solutions for their family matters.

Personal Interests 

Outside her professional life, Louise enjoys spending time with her young family, which keeps her very busy. She enjoys running and keeping fit, and values weekends away with friends.

I am a trained mediator working towards accreditation, with a commitment to helping separating and divorcing couples find constructive solutions when working out financial settlements and arrangements for children.

My background is in family law, having qualified as a solicitor in 1999. I have also spent some time in teaching, as well as nearly 10 years in legal marketing working with solicitors and barristers on articles for publishing.

Working in family law mediation is a culmination of all my experience, combined with a strong desire to help negotiate creative solutions tailored to each couple’s unique circumstances.

Sam was welcomed to the team in September 2022 as an administrator.

Sam has a degree in Aviation and Airport Management and has since decided to take on a Masters in Psychology of Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Has a real passion to help others and their families who are going through difficult situations.

She Loves to socialise with friends and is a keen gym goer and loves to travel.

I qualified as a solicitor in 1997 and have specialized in family law. I have also worked as a university lecturer, training future family solicitors and barristers.

I enjoy working as a family mediator, assisting clients coming to amicable and collaborative proposals regarding their family.

In my spare time, I enjoy country walks and going to the theatre.

I am a dad and grandad who started his career as a Chartered Civil Engineer, working in the construction and insurance industries. Becoming a lawyer, being called to the Bar in 2020 and an accredited civil and commercial mediator.

I am a member of the Family Mediators Association and am currently working towards accreditation with the Family Mediation Council.

I take a pragmatic approach to solving problems, believing that many separating families, given the right environment, time and opportunities to talk, can make their own decisions on how to take their lives forward during this difficult and traumatic time in their lives’.

I am also the chair of a Primary School academy Council and chair of a sports and community wellbeing project which, provides facilities and opportunities for children, youths and adults to meet, dance and play sport.

My real passion, though, are motorbikes.

I trained as a Family Mediator in 2020 after realising I needed a new challenge. My background is varied and includes teaching, training, holistic therapies and customer service.

Having experienced separation and divorce myself, albeit 30 years ago, I encourage parents to move forward independently of each other, while prioritising the wellbeing of their children.

When I’m not mediating I’ll be pursuing my interest in rockets and space…or batch cooking plant based recipes.