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Tawhid ar-Rahman is an FMC-accredited family mediator and the founder of Salam Mediation. He conducts the MIAMs and the mediation sessions, and stays with a case from the first meeting to the written outcome.
Accreditation and professional standing
- FMC-accredited family mediator
- Registered with the Family Mediation Council
- Trained by, and a registered member of, the College of Mediators
- Professional indemnity insurance held with Protectivity
- BA (Hons), MA
- Nominated for Family Mediator of the Year and Diversity & Inclusion at the National Mediation Awards 2026
Accreditation is worth explaining because “mediator” is not a protected title and anyone may use it. An FMC-accredited family mediator has completed approved family mediation training, gained supervised practical experience with a Professional Practice Consultant, and demonstrated their competence through the FMC accreditation process. Accreditation has to be maintained and renewed. It is also what allows a mediator to conduct court-recognised MIAMs and sign the relevant sections of forms such as C100 and Form A.
National Mediation Awards 2026
Tawhid ar-Rahman has been nominated for Family Mediator of the Year and for the Diversity and Inclusion award at the National Mediation Awards 2026. The winners are announced at the ceremony on 2 December 2026.
Nominated for Family Mediator of the Year and Diversity & Inclusion at the National Mediation Awards 2026.
Accessibility is the whole ethos of Salam Mediation, not a feature of it. The practice was set up to make family mediation clear, easier to use and open to people who have historically found it hardest to reach. He works with families from many different backgrounds, mediates in English, Bengali and Hindi, and arranges interpreters for other languages where they are needed. The process is adapted for people who need something different from the standard format: shuttle mediation, adjustments for a disability, or simply more time to understand what is being asked before deciding anything.
The same thinking runs through this website. Most of its pages can be listened to rather than read, in English or in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic and Somali, with the words on screen changing to match the voice. It is written in plain English, built to work with screen readers and larger text, and nobody has to use the telephone: email and WhatsApp are there for anyone who finds calls difficult. The accessibility and support page sets out what can be arranged. He also understands the terminology and context around Islamic marriage and divorce, while working strictly within his role as a family mediator – set out in Islamic divorce, nikah and family mediation. The aim is the same in every case – that both people feel heard, understand their options and reach their own decisions in a calm and practical way.
Areas of practice
Over five years of work with separating and divorcing families, across the range Salam Mediation covers: MIAMs, arrangements for children, and financial matters including disclosure, the family home, pensions and debts.
Particular practice interests:
- Mediates in English, Bengali and Hindi; Portuguese in house; Arabic, Punjabi, Urdu and Somali with an interpreter
- Cases where communication has already broken down, including shuttle formats where direct discussion is not suitable
- Keeping children’s arrangements practical and workable rather than framed as a contest between parents
- Financial cases that need structure – disclosure first, then issues, options and proposals
Approach
Mediation works when both people believe they are being treated fairly, and that has to be as true for the quieter person in the room as for the more forceful one. Much of the job is keeping the conversation on what can still be decided rather than on what has already happened, and making sure a session is not simply carried by whoever is better at arguing.
He does not take sides and does not advise either of you. Under the FMC Code of Practice he is not permitted to, and that is precisely why both of you can rely on the process. Where independent legal, pension or tax advice is needed, he will say so plainly rather than work around the gap.
Background
His route into mediation was partly personal: he went through family breakdown himself and saw at first hand how slow and wearing the court route can be. That is context rather than credentials – what he brings to a case is the training and the accreditation. But it is why the practice is built around explaining things properly before anyone is asked to commit to anything.
Before mediation he worked in visual communication and documentary photography.
If you would rather get a sense of how he works before booking anything, a short phone call is usually the easiest way. Get in touch, or read what happens at a MIAM.
Languages, culture and faith
Mediation is conducted in English, Bengali and Hindi directly by the mediator. Portuguese is available in house, and Arabic, Punjabi and Urdu can be arranged with an interpreter.
Speaking to a mediator in your first language changes what a difficult conversation feels like. It is the difference between explaining your family through somebody else and simply saying it.
Alongside the practice, Tawhid ar-Rahman is a member of the Family Mediation Council’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team, which works on widening access to family mediation across communities that have historically used it least.
Many of the families who come here are navigating a civil separation and a religious one at the same time, and understanding that context is part of the work. We do not give religious rulings or religious advice of any kind. Where an Islamic divorce is also needed, that is a matter for a Shariah council, and we can point you to the organisations that deal with it. Mediation here is open to any family, of any faith or none.
If reading and paperwork are hard
Mediation runs on documents. Financial disclosure, a Form E, a court form, a memorandum at the end – long, dense and written in a register that is difficult for anybody, and considerably harder if you are dyslexic or process written information differently. People rarely say so, and then quietly struggle with it.
Tawhid is dyslexic himself, so he knows at first hand that the way information is presented can make a real difference. That does not mean everybody needs the same thing. If reading, paperwork, concentration or taking in information is difficult for you, say what helps you.
Tell us, and we will work differently. That can mean going through a document aloud rather than sending it to be read, breaking a form into shorter pieces across sessions, giving you a plain summary of what a page is actually asking for, allowing longer to prepare, or sticking to one thing at a time in a session rather than covering four.
None of this needs a diagnosis, an assessment or an explanation. Asking is enough, and it is not treated as a difficulty – it is simply how the process is arranged for you.