Our Services:
Guiding Your Family Towards Resolution, Connection and a Brighter Future
At Family Pathways WA, we understand that every family's journey through separation is unique.
Our approach to Family Dispute Resolution is built on flexibility and customisation, moving beyond the adversarial nature of litigation. We work with a therapeutic lens, focusing on improving communication, fostering healthier interactions, and strengthening family connections.
Our goal is to empower you to find constructive, lasting solutions that prioritise the well-being and growth of every family member, especially your children, in a supportive and understanding environment.
Family Dispute Resolution (FDR)
Parenting
Who it's for: Separated or separating parents who need to make decisions about the care, living arrangements, and upbringing of their children.
Outcome Goals: To help parents create practical, child-focused parenting plans that outline responsibilities, routines, and holiday schedules, avoiding the need for court intervention.
Benefits: Reduces conflict, empowers parents to make their own decisions, provides children with stability, saves time and significant legal costs compared to court, and improves co-parenting communication.
Child Inclusive Mediation (CIM)
Who it's for: Parents engaged in dispute resolution where there are children, and whose views or experiences might inform parenting arrangements. Children attend a separate session with a child consultant.
Outcome Goals: To ensure children's voices are heard and considered in a safe, age-appropriate manner, providing parents with valuable insights to make truly child-focused decisions.
Benefits: Improves parenting plans by reflecting children's needs and wishes, helps children feel heard and reduces their burden of silence, and supports parents in understanding the impact of conflict on their children.
Parenting Coordination
Who it's for: High-conflict separated parents with existing parenting orders or agreements who struggle with implementation and ongoing minor disputes.
Outcome Goals: To help parents adhere to their parenting plan, reduce conflict, develop effective co-parenting skills, and resolve daily disagreements without returning to court.
Benefits: Provides ongoing support and guidance, de-escalates conflict, protects children from parental disputes, improves communication and problem-solving between parents, and saves time and money on repeated litigation.
Coparenting Support
Who it's for: Separated parents who have completed Family Dispute Resolution and are seeking ongoing guidance to effectively implement their parenting plan, manage daily challenges, and adapt to evolving family dynamics.
Outcome Goals: To help parents confidently apply their parenting plan, improve day-to-day communication, reduce the frequency and intensity of disagreements, and enhance their problem-solving skills for future challenges.
Benefits: Provides ongoing support to ensure long-term co-parenting harmony, reduces children's exposure to conflict, equips parents with practical communication tools, lessens co-parenting stress, and avoids the need for costly future interventions.
Family Dispute Resolution (FDR)
Financial
Who it's for: Separated or separating couples needing to divide assets, debts, and superannuation, or discuss spousal maintenance.
Outcome Goals: To facilitate fair and equitable financial agreements that consider each party's contributions and future needs, leading to a legally binding financial settlement.
Benefits: Enables private and confidential negotiation, avoids costly and lengthy court battles, provides clarity and certainty regarding financial futures, and reduces stress associated with financial disputes.
Legally Assisted FDR
Who it's for: Individuals or couples who want their legal advisors present during mediation to provide real-time advice and ensure agreements are legally sound.
Outcome Goals: To reach comprehensive and legally robust agreements on parenting or financial matters, with the immediate input and guidance of legal counsel.
Benefits: Offers greater confidence in the legal implications of agreements, streamlines the process of drafting and finalizing legally binding documents, and provides a structured environment with expert support for complex issues.
Bridge to Coparenting
Who it's for: Separated parents seeking to repair harm caused by past conflict, improve their co-parenting relationship, and focus on moving forward constructively.
Outcome Goals: To facilitate a process where parents can acknowledge past harms, express their needs, and collectively identify ways to improve their future interactions for the benefit of their children.
Benefits: Helps parents shift from blame to understanding, builds empathy and respect, supports emotional healing, and creates a foundation for more cooperative and less conflictual co-parenting relationships.
Family Group Conferencing (FGC)
Who it's for: Families seeking a broader, empowered approach to decision-making, often involving extended family members, friends, and support networks. Commonly used in child protection, youth justice, or complex family dynamics.
Outcome Goals: To create a family-led plan that addresses a specific concern or challenge, harnessing the family's collective wisdom and resources.
Benefits: Strengthens family relationships and support networks, empowers the family to find their own solutions, promotes shared responsibility, and leads to more sustainable, culturally appropriate plans.
Fees
Each party is responsible for their own costs. All fees include administration, reasonable communication between sessions and resources. Service fees can be found on each service page.
If you are having financial difficulties, we encourage you to reach out to us so we can help find a potential solution to avoid delaying resolution and improving your coparenting situation.
As a private practice, we operate without government funding. However, we are committed to helping you access our services to facilitate timely resolution and improve your co-parenting relationship. While we encourage all requests for fee support, the provision of options remains at Family Pathways WA's discretion.
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Individual Intake Sessions: Required for all new clients or after more than six months of non-attendance. This includes a pre-session questionnaire and practitioner review, followed by a 1-hour face-to-face screening and assessment to determine suitability and the most appropriate services for your needs.
Cost: $220