Erik M. Feig is the founder and lead mediator for Feig Mediation Group. He specializes in guiding families through life’s most challenging transitions, with a unique focus on supporting parents of neurodiverse and special needs children. Combining professional expertise with personal experience, Erik helps families navigate complex decisions cooperatively and with less stress.
“Erik is the mediator you want. His desire to listen, grasp of the full picture, and thoughtful advice helped us when we needed it most.” -RM
A Different Approach to Family Mediation
With over 25 years of experience as an attorney and a background in engineering, Erik brings together legal insight and practical, solutions-oriented thinking to his mediation work. His hands-on approach not only resolves immediate issues for the families he works with, but also helps build stronger, more cooperative relationships for the future.
Erik’s mediation approach focuses on empowering parents and families to work together more effectively, even when their different viewpoints have been a source of division and stress. Whether co-parenting, managing elder care, or addressing post-divorce dynamics, his goal is to help families find real-world solutions that work for everyone.
He helps his clients expand their perspectives to see the bigger picture so that they can better explore what’s possible—thus facilitating more positive outcomes.
An Expert in Neurodiverse Family Mediation
Erik’s deep expertise as a disability-informed professional mediator and certified co-parenting specialist—coupled with his personal experience as a parent of differently wired children—has made him a trusted resource for neurodiverse families nationwide.
His mediation approach is tailored to help parents of children with additional needs make critical decisions about their children’s medical, educational, and day-to-day needs, while fostering a cooperative, child-centered environment. He helps parents co-navigate complex situations, including:
Educational and therapeutic supports
Medical, financial, caregiving, and logistical decisions
Co-parenting disputes and dynamics of parenting across two homes
Independence-fostering plans for adult children with additional needs
His empathetic, solutions-focused approach allows families to move forward with less conflict and more confidence, so that that their children’s unique needs are at the heart of every decision.
Helping Families At Every Stage in Life
Erik is experienced in helping families of all shapes, sizes, and stages of life move forward through thoughtful, cooperative decision-making.
An Industry Speaker & Thought Leader
As a leading expert on family mediation for neurodiverse families, Erik is a frequent industry speaker, and has appeared on podcasts such as Divorced Girl Smiling, Off the Fence, and the Autism Dadvocate.
A lifelong learner who is committed to continually building not only his own skills but also educating others, he’s been a member, participant and contributor to several professional thought leadership groups, including the Mosten Guthrie Academy (a national authority on mediation and collaborative training best practices), and WISER (a community of experts dedicated to serving diverse learners).
Certifications & Admissions
- Baltimore City Circuit Court Approved Mediator
- IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional
- Maryland Bar
- Washington D.C. Bar
