Referrals

Why refer to Adrienne Cox at Devon & Exeter Mediation Practice?

In addition to her work as a family mediator, prior to specialising in family mediation, Adrienne was a practicing family law solicitor. She has been working with separated families for almost 30 years, 20 of which have been as a family mediatior. She is a mediation trainer and was a family law lecturer at the University of Exeter for 13 years. Adrienne also has had a leading role in the development of professional family mediation standards nationwide, working on the Family Mediation Standards Board for 5 years. The additional knowledge base and specialist mediation skills set her apart from many other mediators.

With your clients' consent, you will be kept informed of the stage that has been reached in mediation and will be sent copies of the Mediation Summaries, Financial Summaries and Memoranda of Understanding.

Obtaining independent legal advice is recommended to all clients throughout the mediation process.

The referral process

If you would like to speak to Adrienne about her work / approach as a mediator or about family mediation at any time please contact her on 01392 409094 or by emailing her at ac@devexmediation.co.uk.

To make a referral for a MAIM or mediation, you can telephone 01392 409094 or email to ac@devexmediation.co.uk

Alternatively, please complete the referral form below and then:

Download the referral form here (PDF)

Email to ac@devexmediation.co.uk or
Post to Devon & Exeter Mediation Practice, The Exeter Business Hub, Queensgate House, 48 Queen Street, Exeter, EX4 3SR

An assessment meeting or MIAM (if they are considering making a court application) will be arranged for your client within 7 days. If you would like the partner to be contacted first, please provide contact details and indicate this preference on the form.

Locations

Devon & Exeter Mediation Practice is located in Exeter but Adrienne now mediates for clients both nationally and internationally, due to availability and success of online mediaiton. To assist clients, if they wish to meet in person, meetings can also be held at different locations in Exeter, Taunton, Crediton and Okehampton. London mediations can also be arranged.

Costs (not subject to VAT)

All clients will be assessed for free mediation. If clients are not eligible for free mediation, details of costs will be provided to the client during the assessment meeting. Costs information is also set out on the costs page.

Testimonials

The mediations sessions that my husband and I received helped us enormously to discuss in an amicable way our finances going forward in our divorce and therefore reaching a settlement amicably. The sessions we received via zoom worked extremely well especially as my husband was then living abroad enabling us to carry on with the process in a manner which didn't instigate relationship tensions which both parties felt developed during negotiations with our respective solicitors.

Adrienne remained professional and sensitive to the upset and trauma that divorce can cause to either party. I felt that her mediation was clear, time efficient and with the ability to diffuse situations which at times became heated in a gentle but controlled manner.

I would most certainly have no hesitation in recommending Adrienne to anyone who unfortunately finds themselves going through a divorce. I would like to add that mediation not only saved my husband and I most certainly large solicitor fees but more than this it has enabled us to separate in an amicable way which at one time felt impossible. After 11 years of marriage this has been a gift in order to remember the good that we had together and not to be bitter because of the nature of the divorce process.

I can't fully express really just how helpful, reassuring and supportive I found working with you to be. You helped me to find a way through such difficult discussions and decisions at such a confusing and vulnerable time. Thank you so very much.

I was really pleased with it. I felt comfortable that we were going through things with a level headed, tactful guide.

I cannot think of any way to improve your service. It was especially tricky through lockdown and the fact that we were able to keep meeting in a safe, supportive and productive way was amazing.

Mediation with you exceeded my expectations. Having had several sessions with a different mediation service, I was apprehensive and actually pretty fearful of how the process would leave me feeling. You always made me feel reassured and I felt that our family was in good hands. Your calm and sensitive approach, along with your considerable expertise was invaluable and I so appreciated your honesty and objectivity. I always felt listened to and that the whole experience was impartial and balanced, with the welfare of the girls at the centre of everything. I would have been happy and confident for you to meet with the girls had we reached that point, knowing that you would be sensitive to them and their needs too.

Thank you so much for all your help and advice. I have found the experience invaluable and still often refer back to some of the things we talked about to guide my decisions and actions.

You were very helpful and approachable and fair. You kept us on track when conversations went off on a tangent & allowed us to reach a satisfactory conclusion.

I would highly recommend Adrienne Cox for any couple who is going through a divorce ( and especially where a young child is involved as was in our situation ). Adrienne is very professional, highly skilled and knowledgeable.

It has been a long road with many ups and downs between myself and my husband but Adrienne has always remained very professional, neutral and very patient. We got there in the end, thanks to Adrienne,with an amicable, healthy relationship between ourselves which is the best outcome possible for our Son and a clearer future for us all.

I was very impressed with your professional service and the way the sessions were conducted in a calm and understanding environment.

I am satisfied and convinced that I couldn't have found a more competent, professional and sympathetic mediator and mediation service than that offered by yourself and your mediation service.

Just to let you know that the consent order has now been approved, the house transferred and the decree of absolute through, so all done and dusted thanks to mediation.

I didn't know what to expect having never been through it before but was very satisfied with your service. I really didn't know where to turn but your service really helped me.

The client reported that the mediation with you was really good. You were understanding but firm and he said he thought they had all come away from mediation feeling progress had been made with them all having compromised.