Why see a mediator rather than a mental health professional?
Utilizing Mediation to Stay Married is not a choice of one method over another. A troubled couple should use all the resources they can. If one or both of the parties suffers from depression, addiction, or other problems, individual counseling is clearly indicated. Couples can also get great help from marital counselors, and if they have not been helped by a series of marital counseling sessions at one point in their marriage, they may be helped the second (or third) time they try it. Sometimes a few little kernels of knowledge gained by the couple’s efforts in all directions will provide the help they need to overcome a problem that is causing their marriage to break down.
