Marco Abruzzi is a mediator, arbitrator, and parenting coordinator with a personal and professional commitment to resolving conflict in a way that protects families, relationships, and long-term outcomes.
Marco is a father in a blended family. He is divorced and the parent of a 13-year-old son, and is recently remarried. His lived experience of parenting across different stages of life and across family transitions deeply informs his approach to family dispute resolution.
He grew up on Vancouver Island and later studied law in Vancouver. He completed advanced mediation training at Harvard Law School and arbitration training at Oxford University, bringing together Canadian legal experience with leading international approaches to dispute resolution.
Marco also brings a trauma-informed perspective to his work. He grew up in a household affected by mental illness, an experience that shaped his understanding of emotional regulation, power imbalance, and the long-term impact of conflict on children. This background underpins his belief that how disputes are handled matters just as much as how they are resolved.
Marco’s practice emphasizes thoughtful process design, child-focused outcomes, and durable agreements that allow families to move forward with dignity and stability. He is a Law Society of BC accredited Family Mediator, Family Arbitrator, and Parenting Coordinator.
He employs a range of dispute resolution tools to assist parents in building and sustaining a functional, child-focused co-parenting relationship. His work is grounded in the understanding that effective parenting after separation requires parents to interact as partners in a shared responsibility, even where their personal relationship has ended.
Marco emphasizes that durable co-parenting outcomes depend on each parent focusing on their own conduct rather than attempting to control the behaviour of the other. His approach incorporates parallel-parenting principles and prioritizes self-regulation, flexible thinking, perspective-taking, and reflective decision-making as essential skills for reducing conflict and supporting children’s well-being.
His hourly rates are: $325 (mediation), $425 (parenting coordination) and $475 (arbitration)
