
Mediation: assisting you in resolving issues.
Professional Mediation is available for:
Separating Couples
Family Challenges
Parenting Plans
Financial Agreements
Workplace Mediation
Probate Mediation

Mediation: Enabling you and the other participants to play an active role in resolving a dispute in a confidential, flexible, and respectful manner with the support of a neutral mediator.
What is involved in Mediation?
To begin, we value your privacy, which is why we start with individual private meetings for each participant. During these confidential sessions, our mediator will attentively listen to your concerns and gather information about your situation while prioritizing your safety. In addition, our mediator will explain the crucial aspects of the mediation process, ensuring that you have a clear understanding of what to expect.
Once everyone has had their initial meeting, our mediator will craft a highly individualized mediation process that caters to your specific circumstances and send these details to each participant.
This personalized approach allows us to address your unique needs and help you find effective solutions to the issues at hand.
Fees: Generally, the initial confidential appointment is $165 ea. Mediation is $143 per person per hour. A full fee schedule will be provided at your first appointment.
Why choose mediation?
Choose mediation when you want to consider all the disputed issues, develop options to resolve each issue, and with the other participant(s), decide on an outcome. Mediation lets participants make agreements to meet the needs and concerns that are important to them. Mediation discussions and outcomes are confidential. Agreements can be legally binding depending on what the matter is and what the participants decide.
Mediation is an informal, fast, and effective process. Mediation can be used to resolve a wide range of disputes including business, commercial, family, workplace, compensation, insurance, construction, and community.
A mediator helps participants focus on the issues and keeps communication going to reach an outcome. A mediator usually sets guidelines or ground-rules to help guide the process, assists the discussion so it is fair and manages the interactions, so they are respectful.
Mediator: Ian Richards
MMedConflRes BCouns
PRI, NMAS, FDRP, RCC
Nationally Accreditied Mediator
Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
Registered Clinical Counsellor
RI Group Supervisor
Clinical Supervisor
Phone 0402 125 806
Email Ian.Richards@fpam.com.au