Ben Stich
Mediating Divorce & Family Cases via Zoom
617-895-4028 | divorce@mwi.org
Dispute Resolution Experience
Ben Stich is a family and divorce mediator with MWI. He mediates conflicts of all kinds, specializing in family disputes. He mediates divorce, co-parenting conflict, and marital issues. Ben also mediates all types of family disputes such as conflict between parents and their adult children; adult siblings; and parents and their teenage children. Ben also helps families improve their co-parenting as an instructor for the state’s only High Conflict Parent Education program at William James College.
In addition to mediating, Ben is certified in the Think:Kids Collaborate Problem Solving© model and works with Think:Kids at MGH’s Department of Psychiatry to help families, educators, and clinicians work effectively with children and teens who exhibit challenging behaviors .
Ben is a licensed independent clinical social worker and an active member of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation and the Massachusetts’ chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.
Focus Areas
- Divorce for short-term and long-term marriages
- Co-Parenting plans
- Custody disputes
- Parent-Teen Conflict
- Marriage Problems
- Interim separation agreements
- Asset and liability division
- Property division
- High conflict divorce matters
- Elder and estate disputes
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
- Member, Massachusetts Council for Family Mediation (MCFM)
- Licensed Independent Social Worker (LICSW)
- School Adjustment Counselor License
- Member, National Association of Social Workers
- Collaborative Problem Solving Certification from Mass General’s Department of Psychiatry’s Think:Kids program
- Member, AFCC
Lectures and ADR Trainings Conducted & Publications
- “Better Parent” Parent Education Program, June 2016 – August 2021
- Parenting Apart Instructor for the Divorce Center, 2014 – 2016
- Communication and Conflict Blogger, 2013 – present
- Communication Workshop for the Parent/Professional Advocacy League, 2014
- High Conflict Divorce Mediation Training, 2013
- Collaborative Problem Solving for:
– Canton School District, Central Cabinet, 2011-2012
– MENTOR Network – Therapeutic Foster Care Program, 2011
– Massachusetts School Counselors Association – Guidance Administrators Forum, 2011 - More Than Words, Workplace Communication Workshop, 2010
- Germaine Lawrence, Family Communication Workshop, Co-Facilitator, (2001 – 2005)
- Residential Treatment for Adolescent Girls for:
– National Child Welfare League of America Conference (2005)
– MASOC Annual Conference (2005-2009)
– Tenth National Workshop on Adult and Juvenile Female Offenders (2003)
Background and Education
- M.Ed in Organizational Development, Endicott College
- MSW, Boston College, 2001
- BA, Trinity College, 1996
