Certified Mediator Irene Garvey is the Founder of Abenaki Mediation & Facilitation Services and is dedicated to providing onsite mediation and facilitation services and conflict resolution training. Irene has a combination of six years experience in divorce/marital, environmental, family, and workplace mediation, and two years in conflict resolution training and facilitation. She serves on a number of NH Court Mediator Rosters and is a Certified Transformative Mediator, a Certified Marital Mediator, and a Victim/Offender Mediator. Offices located in Grafton, Carroll, and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire.

Irene, along with contracted mediation and facilitation professionals, provides various mediation services in New England including divorce, separation, parental and family, environmental, educational, work place, real estate, and contractor mediation. Meeting and roundtable facilitation to all types of stakeholders is also provided. She frequently coordinates with other New England wide mediators on sub-contractual basis.

Founder Irene Garvey is currently contracted with the Carroll, Belknap, and Grafton County courts. She is a court appointed mediator in New Hampshire and works for the courts as a small claims mediator, a contract federal occupational health mediator, a conflict resolution workshop trainer, and a Certified Juvenile Diversion Panelist.


Offices in Grafton, Carroll and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire

  • James Antes, Ph. D. - Fellow, Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation
  • Sally Ganong-Pope - Certified Trainer and Co-Founder, Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation
  • Dr. Olivia Ruel - Founder/Director, Alternative: A Center for Mediation & Training
  • Attorney Gregory Martin - Trainer, Alternative: A Center for Mediation & Training
  • Daniel Simon - Founder/Principal, Twin Cities Mediation
  • Attorney John Cameron -  Founder/Principal, Mediate First

  • Association for Conflict Resolution
  • New Hampshire Conflict Resolution Association

  • Contract Mediator: NH Administrative Office of the Courts, Family Division
  • Contract Mediator: NH Administrative Office of the Courts, Small Claims Program
  • Contract Transformative Mediator: Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation
  • Contract Mediator: Federal Occupational Health
  • Facilitator & Trainer: Conflict Resolution, Communities for Alcohol and Drug Free Youth and the Plymouth State University Community Counseling Center
  • Conflict Resolution Trainer: Resolving Family Conflict Program, Appalachian Mountain Teen Project, Carroll County and Belknap County
  • Volunteer Mediator: NH Department of Justice, Consumer Protection Bureau
  • Volunteer Mediator: Belknap County Mediation Program
  • Volunteer Mediator: Concord Victim-Offender Mediation Program
  • Environmental Compliance Inspector: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • 2001-2003: Contract Mediator, Carroll County Mediation Services

Institute of the Study of Conflict Transformation
Association of Conflict Resolution
Mediate.com
Mediation Training Institute & Dana Services Group Consultants Registry
Certified New Hampshire Marital Mediator
U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution