Elizabeth Clemants

Elizabeth Clemants is a mediator and conflict resolution trainer who founded Planning Change in 2004. Planning Change supports individuals and organizations through important conflict and change. Her firm specializes in using coaching, mediation, circles, healing sessions and restorative justice practices to help others to grow, learn, evolve and heal, as well as resolve conflict.

Elizabeth Clemants is also the Founder of Hidden Water, a non-for-profit organization that uses a restorative justice model to interrupt the cycle of childhood sexual abuse and the resulting harm in families, communities and society. Hidden Water works with individuals as well as whole families to heal from harm and resolve conflicts that may have plagued a family for decades.

Outside of her work with Planning Change and Hidden Water, Elizabeth lectures on many related subjects throughout the year. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School. She speaks and trains in schools, religious institutions, for private events, conferences, corporations, non-for-profits, and has been a certified mediation trainer for the New York State Unified Court System since 2000.

Elizabeth received her Master of Social Work degree from Columbia University with a minor in Law in 1998. She is the author of Healing Together: A Family Guide to Recovering from Sexual Harm. She lives in Brooklyn with various combinations of her (almost) adult children, their partners and friends, one big dog and a few scattered chickens.