Couples & Family Mediation in Union County
From Elizabeth to Summit: End the Rematch.

Union County packs every kind of household into one compact county — dense city blocks in Elizabeth, train-line commuter towns like Cranford and Westfield, quiet affluence in Summit. What they share: couples having the same fight on a loop, each round a rematch of the last. Mediation is how the rematch ends — with terms, in writing, signed.

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Trusted With 1,000+ High-Stakes Agreements

Your mediator, Santo V. Artusa Jr., J.D., C.A.M.T., negotiated and mediated more than 1,000 agreements across 15+ years in New Jersey practice — matters thick with emotion and short on time, where families’ finances, children, and futures hung on getting to yes. He knows the pathways to agreement because he’s walked them a thousand times, and he knows the wreckage on the other side because he stood in Union County-area courtrooms when couples arrived there instead. This service is the off-ramp — taken early, while there’s still a household to protect.

Learn more about his background on the Executive Director page, or see the full service overview on our Couples & Family Mediation guide.

The Union County Sessions We Run Most

Three files dominate our Union County work. The commuter household: one partner on the Raritan Valley or Northeast Corridor line twelve hours a day, the other absorbing everything at home, resentment compounding weekly. The stretched budget: real estate taxes, childcare, and two families’ expectations pulling one paycheck in three directions. And the escalation pattern: arguments that get louder each month, which both partners privately know is heading somewhere neither wants to go.

Each resolves the same way: confidential individual intakes, structured joint sessions, private caucus for the things that can’t be said in front of each other yet, and a signed written agreement on the money, the labor, the boundaries, and the rules of engagement.

📌 Commuter-household fairness and workload agreements

🤝 Stretched-budget rules: taxes, childcare, family expectations

🗂️ De-escalation and rules-of-engagement agreements

✍️ Parenting alignment for train-schedule families

Union County couples caught in the escalation pattern should know both halves of our practice: mediation for the disputes, the Relationship Anger Management program for the escalation — coordinated through the Couples & Family Hub. Our guide to domestic argument arrests in NJ shows where the escalation road ends; mediation is the exit before it.

Union County Couples Ask Us

Our arguments are getting louder and we both know it. Is mediation enough, or do we need something more?

Honest answer: sometimes both. Mediation resolves the disputes feeding the escalation; our Relationship Anger Management program addresses the escalation itself. As the state's lawyer-founded anger management practice, we're the one provider that delivers both under one roof, coordinated by the same professional. The private intake call is where we map the right combination.

Do both of us have to be on video at the same time from the same place?

No — and we actually prefer you're not side by side. Our protocol has each partner in a separate room on a separate device with headphones. Partners can even join from different towns. It guarantees caucus privacy and keeps joint sessions measurably calmer.

What does the written agreement cover in a typical Union County case?

Whatever you're fighting about — typically a financial section (budget rules, spending thresholds, transparency), a household section (division of labor, schedules), a family-boundary section (in-laws, obligations), and communication rules (how disagreements get raised and resolved). Specific, dated, plain English, signed by both.

The step-by-step walkthrough and flat-rate package menu are on the main mediation guide.

SERVING ALL OF UNION COUNTY

Elizabeth · Westfield · Summit · Cranford · Union · Linden · Rahway · Plainfield · Scotch Plains · Berkeley Heights — and every community in between. Virtual statewide.

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One Confidential Call Starts It.

The rematch ends when the terms get written. Start with one confidential call to a mediator who has written more than 1,000 of them.

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New Jersey Anger Management Group, LLC · 97 Newkirk Street, 2nd Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07306
Santo serves as a neutral for both parties; mediation is not legal representation of either partner.

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