Separation is experienced in many different ways and can leave parents traumatised and overwhelmed. At times, the traditional pathways of mediation or seeking the advice of a lawyer is not always helpful, especially if you are experiencing high conflict or a high-risk separation, these could be deemed a challenge for mediation failing the process before you begin, resulting in wasting not only your hard earnt money already spent, but then throwing you down the legal path which for most parents is where they want to avoid.

The PTA Co-Parenting Clinic Program provide a pathway for parents who are having challenges before or during mediation, and this is especially helpful for those matters that do not need to go to court.

Parents can engage individually or decide they will both, whichever way parents are seen separately throughout the PTA Co-Parenting Clinic Program.
If mediation has commenced and there are challenges, the FDRM (Family Dispute Resolution Mediator), can pause the process, to give both parents time to engage with
the PTA Co-Parenting clinic program, this allows time for parents to sort through such challenges without the pressure of mediation failing. Once the program is completed, parents can then return to mediation.

The support of the PTA Co-Parenting Clinic Program gives parents an opportunity to re- enter mediation with different perspectives and a parenting plan that could seem them finalising mediation process with ease, saving parents thousands of dollars in court costs, but most important, parents maintain their legal power to make good decisions about their co-parenting future and not the courts to decide.

PTA also offer mediation for all families across Australia, utilising the best of the best trained FDRM (Family Dispute Resolution Mediators) from the Mediation Institute trained by Joanne Law. As such, our mediators can assist in both children and financial matters.