Dimant Resolutions is a team of independent mediators, who have a vast set of skills and experience, ready to help with personal or professional conflict. Please see the FAQ page if you would like details about how mediation works. Visit the Services page for more details on our conflict coaching, mediation services, and mediation education. If you have more questions or want to use our services, please use our Contact page, and we will respond with information on the best fit for your needs.
Tsipora Dimant has been a mediator and trainer for 30 years. She started her mediation career at Small Claims Court, where she mediated hundreds of cases over 15 plus years. She also directed the Dispute Resolution Department at the Better Business Bureau where she oversaw mediations and arbitration services for businesses and consumers in dispute.
In the last 10 years Tsipora worked as a mediator and conflict coach at OHSU and the City of Beaverton. Recently she helped launch a peer mediation program for the Oregon Education Association, which serves 45,000 members. She is currently mediating divorce and post divorce conflicts, and teaching mediation courses.
Her work is focused on helping couples learn new communication skills as they navigate the physical and emotional separation.
Patrick G. Ward, JD, is a Mediator who is committed to helping families in crisis and conflict find emotionally healthy resolutions. He is the current Owner and Founder of Clarity Law LLC, a Mediation practice focused on peaceful resolution of disputes. Previously, Patrick was a Senior Assistant Attorney General, Oregon Department of Justice, and litigated hundreds of cases involving parental custodial rights. After witnessing the trauma that children and parents suffer during and after litigation, Patrick knew that families needed a different and better way to resolve conflict.
Patrick is the Current Treasurer for the Oregon Association of Collaborative Professionals and is active with the following Professional Organizations:
- Academy of Professional Family Mediators
- Oregon Mediation Association, Standards and Practices Committee
- International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
- Clackamas Collaborative Divorce
- American Bar Association
- Oregon State Bar
Patrick is also engaged in the following volunteer activities to promote healthy families and the benefits of mediation.
- Portland Rescue Mission, Shepherd’s Door and The Harbor, Volunteer Mediator
- Six Rivers Dispute Resolution Center, Volunteer Mediator
- Multnomah County Small Claims Program, Volunteer Mediator
When not helping his clients, Patrick can be found hanging out with his wife and daughter, trail running, skiing, or bouldering.
Karla Zirbes is a mediator and dispute resolution consultant who’s patience is grounded in the belief that conflict leads to growth. She began by resolving playground disputes in elementary school, earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Oregon, and later was trained and mentored by Tsipora Dimant in mediation and dispute resolution. She gained experience with three years at the Better Business Bureau conciliating and mediating hundreds of disputes as well as coaching business managers. She is a coach for students of Portland Community College’s Basic Mediation class and a volunteer mediator with the Multnomah County and Washington County Small Claims Courts.
These are anonymous quotes from a few parties about mediating with Karla:
“Even though I didn’t get exactly what I asked for, I am extremely happy with the results. Thank you for helping me reach this settlement. It couldn’t have worked out any better.”
“I firmly believe that mediation, arbitration, litigation, or court would have all ended in the the same result obtained here. Regardless I am pleased that this is behind us. Karla did a great job!”
“Karla mediated this settlement very professionally. Given the circumstances I was very impressed. Job well done. Thank you”