Parenting After Separation add-on

Anger Management Programs Australia (AmpAus) offers a two-session Parenting After Separation add-on alongside the Anger Management Program. It provides private, individual phone or video discussion to help you keep children’s needs in view and examine your own parenting responses through separation.

Two focused individual sessions

Each session lasts 40 minutes. Your practitioner considers your circumstances and identifies relevant discussion and reflection activities. Topics may include children’s developmental needs, parental stress, routines, difficult handovers, communication and keeping children out of adult conflict.

Relevant workbook material can support reflection between appointments. Bring a specific situation and consider your own choices, the impact on others and what you could do differently.

Purpose and boundaries

The add-on is individual parenting education, not mediation, a parenting assessment or a decision about arrangements. Co-parenting is not suitable in every situation. Follow existing orders and seek independent advice about legal requirements.

For a separate parenting or property dispute, Australian Mediation provides a family dispute resolution enquiry pathway. Suitability is assessed separately.

Your practitioner

Melinda Bailey, our Lead Practitioner and program creator, is a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (FDRP), accredited by the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department. Her background includes corrective services, relationship counselling and family dispute resolution. Your practitioner connects the program material with your circumstances and workbook responses. AmpAus also engages other practitioners. You will know who your practitioner will be before booking. Read more about Melinda and AmpAus.

Available to adults aged 18 and over. Participation is individual unless the practitioner separately approves a suitable joint-session option.

Documentation and professional requirements

Tell AmpAus about any referral requirement before booking. A Letter can be requested after successful completion; discuss what documentation applies to your combined booking. Completion does not guarantee court acceptance, a legal outcome or future behaviour. A separately purchased Letter is priced on the pricing page.