The Love Warrior · Private Mediation & Conflict Resolution
You Don't Have to Agree About the Past to Make Decisions About the Future.
When communication breaks down and important decisions remain unresolved, a structured conversation with a neutral professional can create a different way forward.
The Love Warrior provides private mediation and conflict resolution for couples, families, business partners, and organizations.
Evanston · Chicago · North Shore · Virtual by arrangement
Request a Private ConsultationA complimentary 15-minute introductory conversation.
When It Isn't Working
When the Conversation Isn't Working Anymore
Maybe you're navigating a separation and want to avoid turning the process into an unnecessary battle.
Maybe your family is divided over caregiving, finances, or an important life decision.
Maybe a disagreement between business partners is threatening everything you've built.
Or perhaps you've tried talking things through, but every conversation ends in frustration, defensiveness, or silence.
You don't necessarily need another argument, another ultimatum, or another person taking sides.
You may need a different process.
"The goal isn't to decide who's right. It's to discover what becomes possible when the conversation changes."
Services
What We Help Resolve
Divorce & Separation Mediation
For couples navigating separation, divorce-related decisions, responsibilities, and practical next steps. Structured facilitation around priorities, communication, and possible agreements. Legal advice, court filings, and legal drafting are handled by properly qualified attorneys.
Family Conflict Mediation
For families navigating disagreements involving adult siblings, aging parents, caregiving responsibilities, inheritance-related concerns, financial or household decisions, and longstanding communication challenges.
Business & Workplace Mediation
For business partners, founders, executive teams, and organizations navigating leadership disagreements, partnership disputes, and workplace relationship breakdowns. A practical, impartial process that helps participants explore solutions and workable agreements.
Organizational Conflict Resolution
For leadership teams, boards, and organizations navigating structural conflict, communication breakdowns, or decisions that require a neutral facilitator. Customized scope and engagement structure.
The Process
How It Works
Private Consultation
A complimentary 15-minute introductory conversation to understand your situation, answer your questions, and determine whether mediation is appropriate.
Individual Intake & Screening
Separate conversations with each participant to assess suitability, voluntariness, conflicts of interest, and safety before any joint session.
Agreement & Preparation
Written scope, fees, confidentiality limitations, and a signed agreement to mediate. Each participant understands the process and their role before sessions begin.
Mediation Sessions
Structured conversations designed to clarify issues, explore options, and work toward voluntary agreements. Sessions are conducted with impartiality and care.
Next Steps
A nonlegal summary of understandings where appropriate, with independent legal review recommended as needed. The mediator does not provide legal advice or draft legal documents.
Investment
Fees & Engagements
Focused Resolution Session
Starting at $999
Preliminary screening, preparation, up to three hours of joint facilitation, and appropriate nonlegal follow-up.
Private Mediation
Starting at $2,500
Individual screening, preparation, up to six hours of joint mediation, and a nonlegal summary of understandings where appropriate.
Executive & Organizational
Starting at $3,500
Customized scope and proposal for business partnerships, executive teams, and organizational conflict.
All engagements require appropriate screening, written agreements, and voluntary participation. No payment is collected automatically through the inquiry form.
Your Mediator
Anthony "Tony" Holmes
Anthony Holmes is a mediator, conflict resolution specialist, and executive leadership coach with decades of facilitation experience across personal, professional, and organizational contexts.
His qualifications include conflict-resolution specialist training through the Chicago Center for Conflict Resolution, divorce mediation training through Northwestern, and advanced psychosomatic practice.
His professional experience includes leadership and facilitation roles at Delta Air Lines and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Anthony Holmes is not an attorney and does not provide legal advice. Mediation is a voluntary, confidential process distinct from legal representation or therapy.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Get Started
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A complimentary 15-minute introductory conversation. Complete the form below and you'll hear back within one business day.
There's Another Way Forward.
You don't have to resolve every hurt, settle every disagreement, or repair every relationship. But you can choose a more intentional way of making the decisions that matter.
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