About Louisa Hext, MA, ACC
Mediator | Conflict Coach | Founder of Embrace Forgiveness
Louisa Hext is an experienced conflict resolution specialist, life coach, and public speaker dedicated to helping individuals and families navigate emotional complexity with clarity and compassion.
Through her practice, she supports clients facing family breakdowns, estrangement, divorce, and life transitions — guiding them toward understanding, integrity, and meaningful resolution.
Drawing from over a decade of experience in alternative dispute resolution, Louisa offers a grounded, human-centered approach to mediation, conflict coaching, and facilitated dialogue, with a focus on family systems and emotionally charged dynamics.
Real Conversations That Heal and Transform
At the heart of Louisa’s work is a deep belief that conflict doesn’t have to destroy connection. Whether she’s mediating a divorce, helping adult siblings navigate eldercare decisions, or supporting someone through the grief of a fractured relationship, her role is to create space for clarity, emotional honesty, and forward movement.
Her approach is restorative, non-adversarial, and trauma-informed — designed not to “fix” people, but to help them meet one another (and themselves) with more understanding and less fear.
Professional Background
Louisa Hext brings over two decades of experience helping individuals and families navigate complex interpersonal dynamics through mediation, coaching, and restorative dialogue.
With a strong academic foundation in sociology and advanced training in conflict resolution, she supports clients facing divorce, family conflict, and life transitions with clarity, compassion, and integrity.
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M.A. in Sociology, The Ohio State University
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B.A. (Hons) in Social Studies, University of Liverpool
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Certified Life Coach, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF)
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Qualified Neutral under Rule 114, Minnesota Supreme Court (Civil & Family Law)
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SENE/FENE Evaluator, trained in both Social and Financial Early Neutral Evaluation
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Parenting Consultant & Custody Evaluator, Hamline University Dispute Resolution Center
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Guardian ad Litem, Juvenile Court, Hennepin County
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Restorative Practices Practitioner, trained in restorative conferencing
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Graduate, Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative, Harvard Law School
- Founder of Embrace Forgiveness
Looking for a divorce mediator in Minnesota or Wisconsin? Let’s make a difficult process more manageable. Louisa Hext offers calm, respectful, and solution-focused divorce mediation to help you move forward with clarity and care.