Essence Mediation
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Clara Puskas, Qualified Mediator, helping individuals and businesses resolve disputes privately efficiently and outside the courtroom. Serving the Greater Toronto Area and Ontario.
Private & Business & Construction Dispute Mediation
Disputes cost time, money, and relationships. Essence Mediation helps businesses, contractors, homeowners, and partners resolve conflicts privately and fairly, without going to court. Led by Clara Puskas, Q.Med, WFA, Essence Mediation combines formal mediation training with 23 years of hands-on construction, design, and retail industry experience.
Services
Mediation
In mediation, I bring both parties together as a neutral third party to help you negotiate a resolution you both agree to. I don’t take sides or decide the outcome. I help you reach a workable agreement, faster and more privately than court.
Benefits: lower cost than litigation, resolved in weeks not years, fully confidential, and it preserves the relationship instead of ending it.
I mediate: construction & renovation disputes, workplace & volunteer disputes, contract disputes, professional services disputes, and partnership disputes.
Consultation
Consultation is one-on-one support. I work for you alone, helping you understand your options, prepare your case, and build leverage before mediation, negotiation, or litigation.
Benefits: clarity on your situation, a stronger negotiating position, and guidance drawn from 23 years in construction and business.
I consult on: construction & renovation, workplace, contract, professional services, and partnership issues — whenever you need someone in your corner rather than a neutral in the middle.
Clara Puskas, Q.Med, WFA
About Me
Welcome to my website. I am Clara Puskas, an accredited Mediator and Certified Workplace Fairness Analyst.
With 23 years of experience in residential construction, design, and retail, I bring practical, industry-based insight to trade, construction, workplace, and business disputes. Before becoming a mediator, I built my career in construction and design. As a result, when a dispute involves a contractor’s quotation, an unexpected design change, deficient work, miscommunication, or a project that has gone off track, I understand the issues from the inside—not merely in theory.
I also hold an ADRIC–RICS Certificate in Construction Contract Adjudication, further strengthening my understanding of construction-related conflicts.
This combination of mediation training and hands-on industry experience allows me to identify the core issues quickly, ask informed and practical questions, and help the parties work toward a fair, realistic, and mutually acceptable resolution.
