As a litigator she learned that she preferred to solve her clients’ legal problems through negotiated settlements, rather than through the litigation process. This was particularly true with respect to her family law practice, where she focused on settling family law disputes whenever possible. In many cases she found that divorcing couples were able to make their own decisions with their spouses concerning the parenting of their children, payment of support and the division of their assets, but that they were often simply uninformed, overwhelmed and confused with regard to their rights, and the role of the court in their divorce. She found that when client’s were able to control the outcome of the divorce process rather than face the uncertainty and conflict of litigation, their families suffered less and their finances were preserved. Ms. Breer began to limit her family law practice to those cases where she could act as a mediator between both parties. She returned to Pepperdine University and completed family law mediation training at the Strauss Institute of Dispute Resolution and began her mediation practice in 1995.

She is a member of Orange County Collaborative Divorce Solutions, a multi-disciplinary group of divorce professionals providing collaborative teams for resolving divorce using the multi-disciplinary collaborative divorce model for dispute resolution. This non-profit group includes financial planners, divorce coaches, child specialists, attorneys and mediators trained in the collaborative method of divorce.

Ms. Breer received Collaborative Divorce Training (CDT) in February 2004. She is a member of the International Association of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) and participated in the IACP Conference in Boston in 2004, Atlanta in 2005, San Diego in 2006. She is the founder of the South Coast Collaborative Divorce Professionals and hosts luncheon meetings in Irvine, California providing an opportunity for divorce professionals to network, share their services and resources for the benefit of their divorce clients.