Rebecca Stern

Rebecca, a graduate of New York Law School & Syracuse University, is the Founder of Pearl Mediation, LLC. She specializes in divorce and family mediation with expertise in helping parents of children with special learning, behavior, and mental health needs. As a certified divorce mediator and trained parent advocate, she navigates her clients through some of life’s toughest unexpected challenges. Through her online practice Rebecca helps clients across the country cooperatively navigate divorce, child custody and special education issues. Uniquely well-versed in both divorce and special education law, it is Rebecca’s deep empathy and unbreakable drive that shows her clients she’s been in their shoes, understands their concerns, and won’t settle for anything less than a positive path forward. Rebecca likens her role to that of a crisis management team, jumping in at a point when clients need a clear plan, guided by someone they trust. Many families reach out overwhelmed, not knowing where to begin, or exhausted, feeling they’ve tried everything. Rebecca replaces those emotions of being stalled and alone with feeling understood, informed, and in control of the process. As a seasoned negotiator, Rebecca helps clients find creative solutions and build enduring agreements, preserving the positive aspects of relationships in ways that work for everyone involved. Her clients learn the right questions to ask, sparing themselves wrong turns, saving significant time, money, and frustration. Rebecca’s collaborative model brings certified divorce financial analysts (CDFAs) and CPAs, divorce mortgage lenders, special needs financial planners, trust experts, health insurance advocates, mental health professionals, evaluators, behavior experts, coaches, and education consultants and more into the mix as needed. Rebecca lives in Bergen County, NJ, where for fun, she teaches spin classes, and can often be heard encouraging her riders, "You are stronger than you think you are!"