‘Destructive divorce mediation can leave people vomiting from stress’

Divorce mediation is one of the “most damaging and destructive experiences” a couple can face when they split up and leaves some people vomiting from stress, experts warned today.

They said that mediation was often “pushed” to couples as a “risk-free” way of saving time and money — but that the process can inflict “psychological damage” on the less-assertive spouse and harm their prospects of achieving a good settlement.