Northland Family Mediators

Meet our Family Mediators and coaches in the Northland region.

Anneke Muijlwijk

Anneke Muijlwijk

Family Mediator & Coach
Anneke is a fully qualified mediator and counsellor. Her mediation service includes safe, confidential exploration towards creative, mutually acceptable solutions enabling clients to move forward. Her extensive counselling experience includes Family Court counselling and working with families, teenagers and children. Anneke has been trained both in NZ and overseas.
Ellen Altshuler

Ellen Altshuler

Family Mediator & Coach
Ellen is a Family Mediator based in Whangarei. She has previously worked as a mediator for the Office of Race Relations, the Human Rights Commission, and as a private mediator in family and property disputes, employment, and organisational and relationship conflict. She has been a trainer in conflict resolution and non-violent parenting as well as a provider of domestic violence and child abuse prevention programmes.
Mike Lee

Mike Lee

Coach
Mike is a counsellor/family therapist (30 years) and coach for Mediation. His counselling experience includes Family Court counselling, working with children and adults around issues of domestic violence, trauma and anxiety and couple counselling. His Family Therapy experience includes working with behavioural & parenting issues, family violence, separation and step parenting.
Janet Hetaraka

Janet Hetaraka

Family Mediator
Janet brings to the family mediation arena a lifetime of experience of whanau, 25 years mediation practise and a passion for helping tamariki to find their place in the world. While her whakapapa is Ngai Tahu, Janet has spent most of her life in Tai Tokerau with her large and interesting Ngati Wai whanau.