Rachel Graycliff is a certified family mediator and ordained chaplain based in Ontario, Canada. She is the founder of QuietCourt Mediation and QuietCourt Sacred Dispatch, where she works at the intersection of family law, trauma-informed practice, and frontline systems support.
Rachel brings over two decades of experience in crisis response, spiritual care, and trauma-informed communication. Prior to founding QuietCourt, she worked professionally in the violence against women sector, supporting women navigating the intersecting realities of abuse, addiction, and systemic harm. Her work in this field was grounded in harm reduction and included roles as a frontline trauma counsellor and crisis intervention specialist.
She has studied paralegal law, equipping her with a strong working understanding of legal systems and how they intersect with conflict, equity, and family dynamics. In addition to her mediation practice, Rachel currently works as a Family Court Support Worker serving Indigenous individuals and families, supporting navigation of the family court system with a focus on safety, dignity, and procedural clarity.
Rachel’s writing and mediation practice emphasize discernment over neutrality, containment over escalation, and ethical presence over performance. Her work is particularly attuned to family systems impacted by coercive control, chronic harm, and institutional blind spots. Across all settings, her guiding commitment is the same: to hold space with precision and dignity, and to insist that systems learn before suffering becomes the teacher.
