Learn About Our Mediators and Mediation Services
“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” – Max Lucado
Erik M. Feig, Mediator & Founder
Certified Co-Parenting Specialist & Disability Informed Professional
erik@feigmediationgroup.com | (301) 485-9272
Erik M Feig founded Feig Mediation Group, a parent and family-focused mediation firm in Bethesda, Maryland to help parents, families and businesses create paths to more positive outcomes when important issues and decisions are on the line and communication can be most difficult. He is a mediator, accomplished attorney, and parent of three amazing children.
As a mediator, he is committed to helping his clients align with each other when important issues and decisions need to be addressed and the old, familiar ways of doing things are no longer sufficient to meet the needs of today – or tomorrow. It’s an approach that recognizes – and seeks to mitigate against – the stress and harm that can result from poor or ineffective communication and unresolved conflict.
As a parent in a neurodiverse family himself, Mr. Feig has a particular commitment to working with parents where neurodiversity and special needs are factors in their families. He brings a practical, real-world approach to help parents engage each other more constructively when decisions impacting their neurodivergent children are required.
As an attorney with over twenty-five years’ experience, Mr. Feig has worked with companies of all sizes and at all stages of development, from start-up through to exit. He has a reputation as a hands-on, trusted counselor and business partner who not only “gets” his clients, but who is also skilled at helping them prevent and respond to issues in ways that create business and relationship opportunities. He has worked in private practice and as corporate General Counsel for an industry-leading organization, and holds certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
His experience and training extends to both family mediation and commercial business mediation, including mediation for parents needing help when they are not – yet – on the same page, including when neurodiversity is a factor in the family, separation and divorce (e.g., co-parenting and child access issues, and economic issues such as division of property and assets, and support), mediating high conflict family disputes, elder and adult family mediation, parenting coordination, and collaborative law practice.
Indeed, in the context of the collaborative law process he is a firm believer that a neutral mediator who does not have a stake in the outcome can be a valued resource to help get through impasse and sticking points, while supporting the goals and success of the collaborative law process.
Combining all of this with a background in engineering that is rooted in designing and developing practical solutions to complex problems, Mr. Feig draws from an extensive toolset that sets him apart from so many practitioners with “traditional” notions of what mediation can achieve. He helps his clients expand their perspectives to see the bigger picture so that they can better explore what’s possible, collaboratively and with less stress, thus facilitating more positive outcomes.
Mr. Feig received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law and his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. He is a member of the bars of Maryland, Washington DC, and New York.
A lifelong learner who believes strongly that every day offers opportunities to learn and expand how he may better serve the families he works with, Mr. Feig is a member and contributor to two professional discussion and learning groups, including through the Mosten Guthrie Academy, where he shares best practices with other leaders in the field. He is a member mediator on the rosters of Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals of Maryland and Collaborative Professionals of Baltimore, and is on the roster of approved mediators for the Circuit Court of the City of Baltimore, MD.
Other Professional Memberships and Affiliations include:
International Association of Collaborative Professionals
Maryland State Bar Association
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Academy of Professional Mediators
Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution
Association for Conflict Resolution
“As a parent of children who are behaviorally and emotionally diverse, I understand how difficult it can be for even the most engaged and collaborative parents to stay in step with each other. As an attorney and business executive, I’ve seen so many ways that teams and businesses can find themselves struggling to maintain relationships, teamwork, and alignment once conflict sets in.
In my experience, having a neutral resource to help navigate difficult issues and facilitate constructive conversations, and who can help explore where goals and interests could realign, can be transformative.” —Erik Feig
Who We Are
Feig Mediation Group is a resource for parents, families and businesses wishing to move beyond conflict. We help them explore ways they can align on the difficult, yet important issues, decisions and conflicts that are hard for them to resolve themselves.
We have a particular interest in working with the unique issues and challenges facing parents in neurodiverse families and families with special needs, including those having 2E (Twice Exceptional), GTLD (gifted talented learning differences), Autism spectrum (ASD), dyslexia, dysgraphia, and other language processing differences, social / emotional regulation issues, and the variety of other learning and behavioral differences. We also work with families living with chronic illnesses and similar challenges.
We also serve families needing to resolve sensitive family issues and disputes relating to elder care and aging family members. Topics like elder care, advanced directives, estate planning, aging in place, and executorship can trigger strong emotions in families, whether family relationships are strained or close. We can help clients avoid unnecessary dredging up of old resentments and facilitate the conversations required to help them make family decisions about the future.
We offer mediation services for issues such as:
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- Conflict resolution and mediation for parents in families impacted by neurodiversity and special needs.
- Planning and decision making about a child’s medical, educational, financial, or other needs and services.
- Parent Problem Solving mediation for parents needing support for important decisions affecting their families.
- Separation and Divorce mediation, including parenting plans, addressing co-parenting issues, and child custody matters, as well as property division, and support.
- Elder care and adult sibling conflicts and disputes, including family decision making, financial planning, estate planning, long term care, independent living, medical care, and other issues and transitions related to aging family members.
- Conflicts unique to family-owned businesses and business succession.
- Commercial business mediation services and contract dispute resolution.
If you are a professional and are interested in exploring ways to collaborate, we want to meet you.
Our process is focused on helping our clients reach agreement by having the participants meet during several private mediation sessions. We appreciate that every family and business is unique, and that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to navigating important issues and decisions.
Our mediators work closely with our clients to create an environment where everyone’s needs and concerns can be safely and constructively considered, and that is conducive to creating solutions that work.
We serve the Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic regional areas, and the entire United States, using online mediation services for your convenience.
“We don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.”―Steve Goodier
Areas Served
We serve Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the entire United States using online mediation, including Aspen Hill, Baltimore, Bethesda, Boyds, Bowie, Cabin John, Chevy Chase, Clarksburg, College Park, Columbia, Darnestown, Ellicott City, Frederick, Gaithersburg, Garrett Park, Germantown, Glen Echo, Greenbelt, Hagerstown, Ijamsville, Kensington, Kemp Mill, Laurel, North Bethesda, Olney, Pikesville, Poolesville, Potomac, Rockville, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Urbana, Waldorf, Wheaton, Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, McLean, Reston, and Leesburg.
Feig Mediation Group was proud to be a Silver sponsor of the 2021 Diamonds in the Rough Conference, a unique event at which parents, advocates, and professionals learn, connect, and share, with the goal of empowering children and ultimately launching them to becoming independent adults.
Contact Us
10411 Motor City Drive
Suite 750
Bethesda, MD 20817
erik@feigmediationgroup.com
(301) 485-9272 (Main)
(301) 785-8972 (Cell)