Private Counselling and Mediation offers three distinct, but overlapping services.

1. Counselling including Couple Counselling, Marital Counselling, Family Counselling, Individual Counselling and Online Counselling

We use counselling and psychotherapy to assist you in solving your emotional, behavioural and relationship problems. We are Mental Health Social Workers accredited by the Australian Association of Social Workers to use evidence based Focused Psychological Interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural and Interpersonal Therapy. Our family counselling, marital counselling, individual counselling and online counselling helps with many mental health issues including:

• depression
• anxiety
  
• anger
• stress and
• poor self-esteem.

 

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2. Mediation/FDR/Conflict Resolution

Mediation is a way of resolving disputes between people where a third party, the mediator, assists them to negotiate a settlement. Our focus is family mediation and as such we are Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners (FDRP's) accredited by the Commonwealth Attorney General's department . We provide:

• Property mediation
• Parenting mediation (including child inclusive mediation)
• Shuttle mediation (where parties are at different locations)

• Section 60I certificates​



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3. Children's Contact Service

There are several Children's Contact Centres in the suburbs of Adelaide and they provide excellent supervised time with parents where there is potential concern about conflict or safety. However, these centres often have long waiting periods due to high demand, limited hours and fixed locations.

When a parent is seeking to re-establish relationships with their children delays can have serious long term consequences both legally and developmentally.

Private Counselling and Mediation offers a mobile, child focused, professional and private Children’s Contact Service that assists children in the northern suburbs of Adelaide and the Barossa to maintain their relationship with a parent with whom they do not live especially where there is potential concern about conflict or safety in matters before the Family Court of Australia or the Federal Circuit Court of Australia.

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What is the difference between the three services and can I use two or three at once? 

This explanation is very much a simplification Private Counselling and Mediation offers: 

• Individual counselling- appropriate for personal issues such as anxiety and depression. Couple counselling- issues between couples, such as communication. Typically for when both clients want their relationship to continue.
• Mediation- when both clients accept their relationship with each other is over and they want to make arrangements for who gets what item of property and what the parenting arrangements should be for their children.
• Children's contact Services- when a parent is seeking to re-establish relationships with their children where there is potential concern about conflict or safety

Clients often use more than on of these services either sequentially or concurrently.

Distance is no barrier

​We serve the Barossa Valley (including Lyndoch, Tanunda, Nuriootpa and Angaston) and the Northern Suburbs (including Gawler, Elizabeth and Salisbury). We also serve the whole of Australia because our counselling and mediation services can be conducted using any combination of the following ways of communicating:

• Face to face for short distances, where either you attend our rooms or we come to you.
• Telephone, Skype or Facebook, which can be particularly useful for FIFO, interstate or rural clients.
• Email, which works best for people who enjoy expressing themselves in writing.

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