Talia Spear
Langley, British Columbia V3A 4E6
Canada
Profession(s)
Mediator, OtherTalia is a Certified Comprehensive Family Mediator who specializes in aligning cost-effective, and realistic paths forward for families that proactively reduce conflict and re-establish consistency as well as calm.
Her role is to guide folks and facilitate conversations that help to figure out the unfigureoutable.
Talia began her career at assault services also two decades ago, she’s been fortunate to have led a wide variety of local, regional, domestic, and international teams towards the elevation of support and equity for vulnerable people in challenging circumstances inclusive but not limited to family violence, intimate partner violence, mental illness, substance misuse, homelessness, poverty, crisis, and trauma.
She practices from a child-focused, trauma-informed, and diversity-affirming perspective where she holds equitable space for folks to feel heard, and find solutions for their families.
Talia has extensive lived experience, education, and professional experience working with families navigating heightened conflict.
Those who work with Talia often note she’s soft-spoken, insightful, and gets things done.
Professional Activities
She holds membership with the Hear the Child Society, the Society for Children and Youth of British Columbia, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada, Family Mediation Canada, the American Bar Association (non-attorney/associate member), the Associate Roster of Mediate BC, the Family Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario, Ontario Association of Family Mediation. Talia is an organizing committee member of the British Columbia chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC-BC). She also was on the task force that developed the AFCC-BC Parenting Plan Guide. She also works with Crossroads Collective on their High Conflict Team that provides holistic support (family mediation, co-parent counseling, child/play therapy, etc.) from a family systems lens for separated/divorced families who are navigating high levels of conflict and/or may be court-involved.Professional Education
She has received training from a broad range of well-respected institutions, organizations, universities, and professionals including but not limited to Family Mediation Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the Canadian Police Knowledge Network, the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, Harvard University, Stanford University, the Institute of Child Psychology, the Crisis and Trauma Research Institute of Canada, the High Conflict Institute, University of Toronto, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, Provincial Association of Transition Houses & Services in Saskatchewan (a province with the highest rates of reported family violence in Canada), and Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse (RESOLVE).