"I started seeing the need for this kind of counselling when I was first practising in mediation. Family law counselling gives you the kind of support through your break up and family law experience that your friends or lawyers just can’t provide"

I’ve found clients really benefit from talking through their problems with someone who isn’t there to advise them on what to do legally, but who understands the system and can help them navigate it and survive it.

You’ve separated from your partner, and are struggling. You may have separated and want to live separately but for whatever reason that hasn’t happened and you’re struggling being separated under one roof. How do you make it happen?

Or you have moved out and are setting up a new house, working out new routines for the children, separating finances and money.

You have to go to your accountant, mortgage broker, lawyer, to mediation, possibly to Court – on top of the practicalities you are dealing with grief and loss issues around your relationship.

You find that your friends and family or even some counsellors who dearly want to help but don’t really understand the family law system. You can’t afford to spend hours with your lawyer or mediator because a) it costs too much and b) they aren’t really there to provide that kind of support.

There is nothing sadder than seeing clients in mediation who do not get great results because they have experienced some kind of break-down or are inappropriately dealing with their emotions – leading to a Court battle that didn’t need to happen.

As a mediator I love supporting each of my clients in a neutral way –so when I’m the mediator I can’t provide counselling support to one of my clients and not the other.

But if you are in a family law process –either with lawyers or mediators or both, and you need someone to support you through each stage who absolutely understands every bit of what you are going through, I can offer you that help and support.

I am happy to work as a team with all of your other professional help so we can get you through a very difficult time as well as possible, and ideally, the end of the counselling process starts to become a lot more positive, around new beginnings. The aim of Family Law Counselling is to get you to the new beginnings as emotionally well and positive as possible.