Louise Zito has mediated family and related matters for over 20 years and draws heavily on her Mediation experience in her Collaborative work. She is Of-Counsel to Dolan Family Law, in Connecticut, giving consultations on collaboration, family matters and impasse, as well as giving second opinions. She is partners with Beth Karassik, PhD in Calma Collective, LLC a Retreat and Training collaboration. She trains Attorneys, Family Specialists and Financial Specialists in Basic and Advanced Family Mediation and offers advanced trainings to Collaborative Law Professionals. Louise is a Senior Fellow to the Quinnipiac School of Law Center on Dispute Resolution, an APFM Verified Trainer of Family Mediation and APFM Certified Advanced Practitioner. She leads retreats for mediators and collaborative professionals.
Louise is focused on bringing mindfulness to her Trainings and Retreat work and asking questions that have arisen after many years as a family mediator, such as: Why have our mediation cases gotten so much harder? How do we understand and process the trauma we are exposed to? How can we bring self-compassion to our work as well as compassion for our clients? For more information on ways to address those questions visit: calma-collective-retreats.com.
She co-founded the Divorce Solutions of CT and the Ct Family Mediation Training Group. She is a member of the Collaborative Divorce Team of CT, Connecticut Summit of Collaborative Professionals, Connecticut Collaborative Connection, Mediate.com, APFM and IACP. Louise is a member of the Board of Directors and Past President of the Connecticut Council for Non-adversarial Divorce (CCND).
Louise received the Howard Krieger Beacon Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.
ADMITTED TO CT and NY BARS: 1986
