Rina M. Goodman

Rina blends compassion and understanding with a balanced perspective and the neutrality required of professional mediators. As a former trial lawyer, she understands the financial and personal impact litigation often has on individual parties.

Prior to engaging in mediation practice, Rina immersed herself in mediation study and hands-on experience observing and then co-mediating numerous cases. She holds certificates of completion by the Northern Virginia Mediation Service in commercial and federal workplace mediation. In 2004, after being certified by the King County Dispute Resolution Center in Seattle, Washington to mediate family and business mediations, shefounded Transforming Conflict and has been engaged in full-time mediation ever since.

Tenacious and compassionate, Rina believes that most parties need little more than skilled guidance and emotional support to help them form their own creative and lasting solutions to their conflict. While her extensive legal background enables her to steer through the most complex disputes in a knowledgeable and straightforward manner, her mediation style—flexible, empowering and constructive—encourages creative problem solving and conflict resolution.