Baltimore native Karen Levian brings an unusual professional and personal background to her mediation practice. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin. Upon graduation, she joined the United States Air Force, serving as a pediatric nurse.

While serving our country, she gained valuable experience in assessing family strengths and marital conflicts. She learned to intervene effectively to help families cope with not only physical health issues, but also with separation, parent-teen conflicts and divorce. As an officer, Ms. Levian supervised others and used her conflict resolution skills to resolve workplace, hospital, and care facility disputes. Following her military service, she went into business.

Ms. Levian earned her law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Combining her nursing, business and legal experience, she created a winning formula to assist people with complex issues to resolve conflict. She mediates matters related to family and personal disputes such as pre-marital issue resolution, marital conflicts, separation, child custody, parent-teen conflicts, visitation, property settlement, family business conflicts, divorce, elder care issue resolution and trust and estate disputes. Additionally, she mediates matters related to workplace and commercial disputes such as partnership dissolution, contract disputes, business-client disputes, congregational conflicts, family business conflicts and civil litigation lawsuits.

Whether you have a conflict in your home, personal life, workplace or commercial relationship you need to be comfortable with the mediator assisting you with conflict resolution. With 25 years of experience in the workplace, mediator Karen Levian’s compassion, sensitivity and conflict resolution skills are a winning combination.

“I believe that mediation provides a dispute resolution alternative grounded in dignity and sanity. Going to court isn’t always the best way to solve problems, and the process throws in variables you can’t always control. As a nurse and as an attorney, I saw first hand how important it is to people swept up in a difficult situation to understand what’s going on, to be able to have their say, and help control a process with tremendous consequences for their lives.  As a military officer, I learned how important it is to resolve disputes before they escalate into full-blown conflicts.

Litigation offers a way to handle disputes, but at great cost, financially and psychically. As a business person, I value promptness, effectiveness, and expense containment. Lengthy litigation taxes all of those resources, whether it’s a business or personal conflict.

It’s unhealthy to live in a heightened state of stress and conflict. I believe people truly prefer harmony and resolution to conflict and uncertainty. "I have a gift for helping people work through turmoil.”  - Karen Levian