Meditation
Relationship Mediation
Are you fighting with your partner too much?
Do you find that your partner never listens to you?
Are your kids ignoring you?
Does your partner always tell you that you do everything wrong?
Do you find yourself yelling at your partner often?
Would you like to have peace at home?
Are you struggling with your partner, but don’t want to see a counsellor?
If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of the above, then Relationship Mediation can help you and your family. As a qualified Family Dispute Resolution practice, we can help you communicate with those around you to solve issues that often start as small, irritating problems. Without careful management, small problems can often blow up into major issues. Professional relationship mediation can help you devise strategies and solutions to overcome such issues.
Relationship mediation is suitable for anyone having difficulties communicating with those around them. If you struggle to talk with your partner, child or parents, relationship mediation can help. Mediation sessions are suitable for couples, teenagers, and children. At Shifting Lives, we create a safe space with a neutral mediator who will guide the conversation, so that everyone feels safe enough to discuss the problem that they are unable to discuss otherwise. Our mediation sessions will work out what the problem is that you are unable to discuss with your family member at home because they become angry, withdrawn, or don’t listen to you. Our practitioners are experts in facilitating effective communication. We help the other party hear what you are saying and we will assist you in understanding what someone else is experiencing. Firstly, we meet with each person individually to find out their views, which is followed by a 3-hour session where all the issues are put on the table for discussion. Our mediator guides everyone to hear alternative points of view and they will ensure that the other parties do not get angry or withdraw from the discussion. With everyone present, listening, and understanding each other’s perspectives, we then formulate a neutrally acceptable solution
to deal with the ongoing issue.
Who is Relationship
Mediation suitable for?
Duration
Relationship mediation sessions are usually three hours long. This is negotiable, depending
on the problem to be solved and the individuals involved.
Therapy involving children usually lasts two hours for ages 8 years and above, or one hour
for children younger than 8 years old. Young children are usually asked to be present in
relationship mediation when there are issues involving them (but not when the problem is
related to intimacy). When relationship mediation involves children, we will hold a short
private session with the child (or children) to see their point of view.
Bringing harmony back in your life
Relationships can be challenging and constantly evolving. If you find yourself fighting too much with your partner or you feel that your family members are not listening to you, or you are not feeling appreciated, then mediation can help you see each other’s perspectives. Take action to get you both back on track to a harmonious and rewarding partnership.
Couples
Teenagers
Coping with teenage problems
Teenage years can be tough, confusing, and sometimes scary for the child and those around them. Mediation can cut through the fog of puberty problems, school issues, and how teenagers relate to parents and siblings. We can help you negotiate with teenagers experimenting with drug use and alcohol abuse.
The modern family
Modern families that are separated, divorced, or blended can be complicated. Such families often experience extra difficulties. Family members need to adapt to changed home situations, discipline, and rules and some need to accept new step-parents and step-siblings which isn’t always straightforward. Let us guide your family through these issues.
Families
Childrens
Sibling issues
Each family is unique and each child in the family is unique. Add in some step-siblings, a child with a disability or anxiety issues, and you can have a melting pot of problems to solve. We can help you successfully navigate through modern family life.
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
Shifting Lives provides therapy under NDIS. We offer services to clients who are plan managed or privately managed. We assist people with disabilities so that they are capable and responsible, no matter what their disability or skill level is. We are also skilled in helping children communicate and interface more effectively with their peers, so they become more socially inclusive.
NDIS
Individual Therapy & Counselling
Our therapy and counselling sessions help individuals to better connect with their social community environment and better integrate with their families. Primarily suited for adults and teenagers, our sessions are run by professional counsellors who can help a person develop practical strategies to help them deal with problems that they have. Whether it is interfacing with or accessing their environment and their community and social activities, we provide a fully integrative approach. This means that we focus on helping a person learn to accept who they are as a unique individual who is best able to integrate into their work, family, and community in the most productive and rewarding way.
Assistive technology solutions can change your life, but the myriad of devices and technologies currently available is confusing. Let us help you find the best technology to increase, maintain or improve your functionality at home or in the workforce. We primarily focus on blindness and vision assistive technology, but please contact us for an assessment so that we can help with other disabilities as well. We can advise on computer software and hardware, voice recognition programs, text-to-speech technology and keyboards, screen readers, and enlargement applications. Assessments will focus on how we can use the most cost-effective and general market technology that is currently available so that a person can integrate back into society. When devices look like other office equipment, we find they are more likely to be used.
Duration
Couples
Bringing harmony back in your life
Relationships can be challenging and they constantly change. If you find you are fighting with your partner too much or you feel they don’t listen to you or you are not appreciated, mediation can help you both see each other’s perspective. Take action to get you both back on track to a harmonious and rewarding partnership.
Coping with teenage problems
Teenage years can be tough, confusing, and sometimes scary for the child and those around them. Mediation can cut through the fog of puberty problems, school issues, and how teenagers relate to parents and siblings. We can help you negotiate with teenagers experimenting with drug use and alcohol abuse.
Teenagers
Families
The modern family
Modern families that are separated, divorced, or blended can be complicated and families often experience extra difficulties. Family members need to adapt to changed home situations, discipline, and rules and some need to accept new step-parents and step-
siblings which isn’t always straightforward. Let us guide your family through these issues,
Sibling issues
Each family is unique and each child in the family is unique. Add in some step-siblings, a child with a disability or anxiety issues and you can have a melting pot of problems to solve. We can help you successfully navigate through modern family life.
Childrens
Remote Consultations
We recognise that some of our clients are unable to visit us in person, either due to location, because of their physical disability or their busy lifestyles. To make our services totally accessible by one and all, Shifting Lives offers remote consultations. Wherever you are located, we can help you. We are just a phone call away. Please contact us to discuss how we can set up a remote consultation to help you.
