Brooke Deratany Goldfarb, JD, President
Since graduating from Harvard Law School in 1996, Brooke has practiced in multiple areas of the law.
A Member of a Friendly Divorce Network of Family Mediators, Brooke created Peaceful Beach in 2008 to guide couples and families through the divorce process in a more dignified manner; create more opportunities for individuals and families to resolve conflict without litigation; and help people in general move forward in positive, productive, and healthy ways. Brooke believes clients are the experts in their own lives. She creates a safe space for parties to speak their truth, feel heard, and brainstorm together for solutions in the best interest of all parties. Her goal is to empower individuals to exercise self determination and resolve their own problems without giving away their power to a judge who just met them, and to keep them from being traumatized or re-traumatized by impersonal and dehumanizing court systems and processes.
Brooke is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family & Circuit Civil Mediator; Qualified Arbitrator & Parenting Coordinator; Elder Care Mediator, Dissolution of Marriage Project Manager/Midwife/Doula, a certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Facilitator through the Justice Resource Institute, and a social justice and mental health advocate, especially for trauma-informed lawyering and court processes.
Brooke began her legal career in Miami, Florida in 1996 as an associate at the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig. In 1998, she moved to Washington, DC, where she continued to develop her deal negotiation and drafting skills as a corporate associate at the law firm of Swidler Berlin (now known as Bingham). Just prior to returning to Florida’s Space Coast in 2004, Brooke served two years as a legal recruiter at Mestel & Company, where she facilitated the matching of experienced lawyers with law firms and legal departments in the Washington, DC area. Once back in Brevard from 2004-2008, Brooke represented clients in over 700 cases in courtrooms throughout Florida in criminal, civil, real estate, family, dependency and juvenile matters. In early 2008 she started focussing her efforts on creating peace in her community with the Peaceful Beach concept.
She empowers divorcing couples to do so with dignity and privacy as they focus on the positive and on the future, limit psychological and financial damage, heal from the grief of divorce, protect their family and get on with life.
Since graduating from Harvard Law School in 1996, Brooke has practiced in multiple areas of the law.
A Member of a Friendly Divorce Network of Family Mediators, Brooke created Peaceful Beach in 2008 to guide couples and families through the divorce process in a more dignified manner; create more opportunities for individuals and families to resolve conflict without litigation; and help people in general move forward in positive, productive, and healthy ways. Brooke believes clients are the experts in their own lives. She creates a safe space for parties to speak their truth, feel heard, and brainstorm together for solutions in the best interest of all parties. Her goal is to empower individuals to exercise self determination and resolve their own problems without giving away their power to a judge who just met them, and to keep them from being traumatized or re-traumatized by impersonal and dehumanizing court systems and processes.
Brooke is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family & Circuit Civil Mediator; Qualified Arbitrator & Parenting Coordinator; Elder Care Mediator, Dissolution of Marriage Project Manager/Midwife/Doula, a certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Facilitator through the Justice Resource Institute, and a social justice and mental health advocate, especially for trauma-informed lawyering and court processes.
Brooke began her legal career in Miami, Florida in 1996 as an associate at the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig. In 1998, she moved to Washington, DC, where she continued to develop her deal negotiation and drafting skills as a corporate associate at the law firm of Swidler Berlin (now known as Bingham). Just prior to returning to Florida’s Space Coast in 2004, Brooke served two years as a legal recruiter at Mestel & Company, where she facilitated the matching of experienced lawyers with law firms and legal departments in the Washington, DC area. Once back in Brevard from 2004-2008, Brooke represented clients in over 700 cases in courtrooms throughout Florida in criminal, civil, real estate, family, dependency and juvenile matters. In early 2008 she started focussing her efforts on creating peace in her community with the Peaceful Beach concept.
She empowers divorcing couples to do so with dignity and privacy as they focus on the positive and on the future, limit psychological and financial damage, heal from the grief of divorce, protect their family and get on with life.