Who We Are

 

Carl D. Schneider, Ph.D.

As Director of Mediation Matters, Carl provides mediation services to clients in the greater Washington D.C. area and conducts training for mediators nationwide. Carl has been mediating for 25 years and training for 20 years. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist and brings these skills to his practice of mediation.

He is a mediator uniquely able to help clients not only to reach an agreement necessary for the courts but also to achieve a sense of personal closure in their divorce.

He is an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and a certified mediator with the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution and the Supreme Court of Virginia. He is a member of the Divorce Roundtable of Montgomery County and an Approved Mediator with the Frederick County Civil and Family Mediation Programs, the Howard County and Prince George's County Custody Mediation Programs and the Montgomery County Juvenile Dependency Mediation Program. He has been the chair of the Certification Committee for the Maryland Council on Dispute Resolution. Carl holds his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and his M. Div. from Union Theological Seminary. He is the author of Shame, Exposure and Privacy (Norton, 1992) and numerous articles in books and journals.

 

Eileen L. Coen, Esq.

Eileen co-mediates divorce cases and coaches for training workshops with Mediation Matters. She has mediated hundreds of workplace and domestic disputes. She works as a family mediator in both the private and community-based sectors, mediates custody cases for Baltimore Circuit Court and child protection cases for DC Superior Court. Eileen is also a mediator with the Key Bridge Foundation, mediating work place disputes at the US Department of Energy and NASA.

Eileen brings her experience as an attorney, facilitator and trainer in cross-cultural communication to her role as a mediator. She is a trainer with Help Increase the Peace, a national program of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), and a facilitator for the Montgomery County Public Schools Study Circles Program, which helps schools address the challenges posed by cultural and racial differences and their impact upon school performance. Previously, Eileen worked as an attorney with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, working and travelling throughout Southeast Asia.

Eileen is a Board Member of the Maryland Council on Dispute Resolution (MCDR) and a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and Maryland Performance for Mediator Excellence (MPME), where she serves on the diversity task force. Eileen earned her J.D. degree from George Washington University in 1990 and is a member of the DC bar.

 

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