BIO

Mediator, meditator, speaker, author, mom.

Vanessa Linsey is passionate about helping people get unstuck. As a divorce mediator, she facilitates productive conversations between couples, during which they dissolve their marriage with integrity and collaboration.Vanessa also provides martial discernment coaching, post-divorce support services, and blended family coaching.

Vanessa earned her BA in Speech Communications with honors from Bridgewater State University and her certificate in Professional Mediation at Cornell University's ILR School where she is honored to be a member of Cornell's mediator panel. Vanessa is also a certified Prepare/Enrich "Building Strong Marriages" facilitator. She has completed multiple advanced trainings in divorce, elder, and juvenille mediation.

Vanessa serves on staff at MWI, one of the country's top mediation firms headquartered in Downtown Boston. Vanessa has past experience mediating civil cases (small claims, large civil, and HPO) for Massachusetts Municipal and District Courts and mediating neighborhood disputes for MassHousing.

Before becoming a mediator, Vanessa was a meditation teacher (with a T). She was "the Boston Buddha's" very first certified Meditation For Everyone teacher. She started teaching mindfulness in public elementary schools in 2010 and co-founded Chrysalis Meditation Center in Winchester, Massachusetts 2015. During this time, she taught mindful communication workshops in schools and at wellness expos. She published Metta Mom: A Mindful Guide to Managing Your Mood & Your Brood in 2019 (see below).

Vanessa sees mediation not as a legal alternative, but as a wellness practice that transforms hurt into healing. She infuses her sessions with mindfulness-based techniques developed through years of training with institutions like University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness and Anodeah Judith’s Psychology of the Chakras.

When she's not helping families in transition, this mindful mother and step-mother of seven can be found at home in Massachusetts telling Alexa to play songs by Waxahatchee and begging her teenage children to hang out with her.

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Vanessa's playful, vulnerable approach to healing surprises and delights audiences. She explores healing through self-awareness, tapping into spirituatlity, empowering communication practices... and the power of the moon. Intrigued? You should be! Expect her talks and workshops to be interactive, anecdotal, and inspiring. You can also expect to smile. She presents a range of topics including:

Conversations that Make a Difference *New*: A workshop that strengthens relationships by broaching topics that are typically ignored or avoided (full day / AV required)

Speak from the Heart: An interactive how-to on fighting fair, feeling connected, and releasing grudges (75 minutes / workshop format)

Unstuck: A hilarious how-to on using moon phases to break free from habitual behaviors and relationships (75-90 minutes / AV required)

Here's what people are saying:

"So awesome listening to you yesterday. Best session of the day award right here!!"

@thisorganicgirl, WELL Summit Boston attendee (Unstuck)

"We just wanted to thank you again for being such a wonderful addition to [MHA's] program. The audience LOVED the session—we are so grateful!"

AC - Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, MHA’s Annual Women’s Leaders in Healthcare Conference organizer (Creating Emotional Boundaries through Visualization)

"WOW! I was fortunate enough to be part of your session at the WELL Summit this weekend. You're probably hearing this from a lot of people, but it was my favorite session of the day. So authentic, candid, and informative! It resonated with me on a personal level having bouts of depression. It was good to hear your success story and help re-frame."

AT - WELL Summit Boston attendee (Unstuck)

"While we're all fighting over who gets the bigger piece of the pie, Vanessa's in her mediation room baking up a whole new pie."

Attorney and classmate - Cornell University ILR School (Industrial and Labor Relations)

"I wanted to take the time to THANK YOU for such an amazing presentation at the W.E.L.L. Summit. I have really started to get into the phases of the moon, and the information you provided was exactly what I needed to start putting practices in place during the different moon phases."

SG - WELL Summit Boston attendee (Unstuck)

"Seriously loved this. I made a school year resolution to be less reactive and frenetic and this is right in line with that. My house, and I, were getting too stressed and negative. Thank you. Your voice is so calming and you really put my mind at ease. Looking forward to beginning the practice."

PB - Weekly meditator (Metta Mom)

"Why didn't we learn this skill in grade school? Seriously."

Audience member - WELL Summit Brooklyn attendee (Speak from the Heart)

A Mindful Guide To Managing Your Mood & Your BrooD

Available today on Amazon

In her debut, Vanessa Linsey takes us on an uproarious journey of spirituality, humor, and humility.

Metta Mom brims with stories unheard outside our most intimate moments like teenage slumber parties, deathbed confessionals, and appointments with a gastroenterologist. Each humbling tale brings lifetimes of powerful lessons gleaned from healing and miracle-making.

Metta Mom provides sanity-seeking parents with heroic, yet tangible steps to creating the harmonious family life they thought possible only in their dreams.

Can't wait to read it!

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Mediator, meditator, speaker, author, mom.

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A Mindful Guide To Managing Your Mood & Your BrooD

Available today on Amazon