About Us
Let our experienced mediators help resolve your problems and conflicts.


We are focused on finding the best outcome
Start Mediation is a specialist mediation practice, solely focused on providing mediation services. Our mediators have backgrounds in law and have been extensively trained in family, elder, civil and commercial, workplace, community and school-based peer mediation.
We offer decades of experience as solicitors and mediators, and our cost-efficient approach helps clients achieve better, faster and more affordable outcomes than traditional court proceedings. We provide impartial and confidential services tailored to each client, as well as unparalleled online mediation for added flexibility.
Meet your Expert Mediators

Elisabet Anderson LL.B
Non-Practising Lawyer & Trained Mediator
Divorce & Dissolution Children & Parenting
Elder & Adults MIAMPet Custody
My career started as a family solicitor. After having my children and teaching in primary school for 8 years, I trained as a mediator. This suited me better than working in the often adversarial way associated with the legal process.
I help couples reach parenting and financial arrangements, speak to children in child inclusive mediation, help grandparents establish relationships with their grandchildren, and provide Mediation Information & Assessment Meetings (MIAMs).
I am also a Pet, and Elder and Adult mediator, and a member of the Family Mediation Council, Family Mediators Association , and Law Society.

Stephen G Anderson LL.B
Divorce & Dissolution Workplace Conflict
Financial Business & Civil Community
I qualified as a solicitor in 1994. After seeing the damage that solicitors and the court system caused to those going through a relationship breakdown, I decided in 2009 to retrain as a family mediator. Since 2013 I have worked only as a mediator.
I have trained in most mediation practice areas: family, civil & commercial, workplace, elder and community. This allows me to provide a wide range of ways of working which family mediation alone would not provide.
I’m also a Mediation Information & Assessment Meeting (MIAM) provider and a professional supervisor of other mediators.
I have attended and spoken on the UK, European and North American conference circuit. I’m widely known for my work in establishing online mediation as a legitimate way to work and helped write the online mediation standards for the Family Mediation Council.