Helen Adam

Helen trained as a family solicitor and spent some years working for a central London law firm. Having gained considerable experience dealing with financial issues for wealthy clients, she moved to a High St practice as a partner, where she broadened her experience to cover all aspects of family law. She took a career break with the arrival of her own family, and then spent some years developing and running Divorce and Separation Recovery workshops. She retrained as a mediator in 2007 with the Family Mediators Association and subsequently set up a mediation practice in South West London.  She also completed the Peaceworks mediation training to broaden her experience beyond family disputes.  More recently, she moved to Kent, where she has set up another local family mediation business.  She now works as a family mediator in London and in Tunbridge Wells.

Helen is an accredited member of the Family Mediators' Association and handles all types of disputes arising from family breakdown.  She has also been involved in community mediations and resolving church-based disputes.  She continues to lead Divorce Recovery courses through the local church, and she supports others in setting up and running the course in different venues.

Helen has led various courses to support marriage and family life.  In addition to the Divorce and Separation Recovery course, she has led the Marriage Course and Parenting Courses.  Outside of the family world, Helen spent 12 years on the management committee of Crisis and took an active role in visiting and assessing the many applications made to the charity for funding by local projects working with the homeless.  She then became involved in a local charity ministering to the needs of the women working in prostitution in Brixton/Streatham.  As well as being a Trustee, she did regular night outreach and volunteered in the drop-in centre.  She is now a trustee of Catalyst Urban Trust (Catalyst builds local response-ability through ordinary people doing extra-ordinary things in tough places...because love is a verb!)  and is also a founding Trustee of Rain Edge UK, which provides support to community projects working with street children in Kenya.