Family Mediation Cannington
We help families in the Cannington area with the following:
- Separated Parents Facing Disagreements: If you’re finding it hard to resolve issues about your children or finances, we can assist in reaching a workable solution.
- Parents Prioritising Their Children’s Wellbeing: Our approach focuses on minimising conflict and fostering cooperative co-parenting to ensure your kids feel secure and happy.
- Families Seeking Efficient Resolutions: We provide prompt mediation services, helping you avoid the lengthy delays and costs associated with court proceedings or public mediation.
- Couples Requiring Financial Settlements: Let us guide you through property and financial agreements, giving you clarity and confidence to move forward.
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Why Use a Family Mediator in Cannington?
- Quicker Than Court: In Western Australia, court cases can drag on for up to four years, and public mediation often takes over a year. At Life Mediation, we deliver faster outcomes.
- Cost-Effective: Family mediation is significantly more affordable than court proceedings, saving you both money and stress.
- Customised Solutions: We work with you to develop clear, practical agreements tailored to your family’s unique circumstances, giving you the confidence to move forward.
Our Services - we service the Cannington area and surrounding suburbs. We can either come to you or you can come to our offices.
- Parenting Plans and shared care arrangements (previously known as custody arrangements)
- Property and Financial Settlements
- Co-Parenting Mediation
- Mediation with or without Lawyers
Why Choose Life Mediation?
- Experienced and Caring Mediators: Our team is led by Lisanne Iriks, a three-time nominee for Australian Mediator of the Year and winner of Dispute Resolution Practitioner of the Year, and Karen Stubbs, a trusted and skilled mediator. We use our experience to help you reach fair and lasting agreements.
- Fast and Affordable: Mediation is a quicker and cheaper way to resolve disputes compared to going to court, saving you time, money, and stress.
- Child-Focused Solutions: We keep your children’s needs at the centre of our mediation, helping parents create plans that work for everyone.
- Flexible Options: We offer online sessions across Perth and in-person meetings south of the river to make mediation easy and convenient.
- Personalised Help: Whether you’re working with or without lawyers, we create solutions that fit your family and help you move forward.
The family mediation process
- One hour intake session: In this one-hour intake session, we take the time to understand your situation and the challenges you’re facing. It’s a chance for you to talk openly, and for us to gather the information needed to tailor the mediation process to your specific needs. Whether in-person, online, or over the phone, we’ll guide you through the next steps and answer any questions.This is the first step toward a resolution that works for everyone involved.
- Mediation Sessions: We guide you through resolving conflict and reaching agreements.
- Final Agreement: You’ll leave with a clear plan for your children and finances, ready to move forward.
Where do the mediation sessions happen?
We can meet you in a location that suits you, or you can come to our mediation rooms in Attadale. We also offer online meetings or telephone mediation – whatever feels most comfortable for you and your family.
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Discover how families who have worked with Lisanne have found a way to move forward, been provided the support they needed, and were able to find a solution that works for everyone involved.
Please note that the names of our clients have been changed to protect their privacy.
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Family Mediation Terms and Conditions
Life Mediation payment terms:
Payment must be in advance for every session. The session will only be confirmed after payment has been received.
Life Mediation cancellation policy:
Cancellations must be made more than 24 hours before the appointment or the full session fee will be forfeited.
When a practitioner that works for Life Mediation has to reschedule or cancel the appointment the client will be fully refunded for the cancelled appointment and Life Mediation will make an effort to schedule a new appointment as soon as possible to minimize the inconvenience on the client or will provide the client with details of another practitioner if the client prefers this.
The pricing schedule is current as of 3rd November 2021. Pricing is subject to change and we will endeavour to update our website and cost agreement if this occurs.
Life Mediation and the Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners’ that work for Life Mediation are not in a position to provide any reports or information for any legal proceedings or court of law, as designated by Section 10D of the shared Parental Responsibility Act 2006.
Any information obtained by the staff of Life Mediation in the course of contact with a client is confidential within professional, legal and ethical limits. However whilst the client’s right to confidentiality is upheld and respected there may also be circumstances when a Life Mediation staff member is required to breach confidentiality, such as:
- Where there is some evidence of a clear or implied threat to life or safety, or there is a serious intent to harm self or others.
- Where there is known or suspected child abuse.
There will be times that the Relationships or Marital Mediation Practitioner will share client information in a confidential setting for the purpose of supervision to make the appropriate decisions regarding that particular relationship and/or family.
Any session entered is for the purpose of support, in relation to the client’s current situation. Should there be any disclosures of abuse, threat of abuse, direct evidence of violence or threats of harm to self or others, the Relationships or Marital Mediation Practitioner may act, out of duty of care, to report this to the appropriate authorities.