Your lawyer or the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia has referred you to counselling for 'Men's Behaviour Change', ‘anger management’, or family conflict at Adelaide Narrative.

What to expect:

• Counselling sessions. After 6-8 sessions counsellors can reasonably report to the court on progress, you may opt for more.

• Therapeutic focus. Counsellors invite you into an ethical and accountable change process for your parenting hopes. We are looking to understand you and your particular story.

• Legal focus. Counsellors take a detailed focus on legal matters to help you make sense and context of separation.

• Letters and Reports can be requested

• Fees are discussed with your counsellor. Legal Aid clients accepted.

• Private health insurance rebates are available. Medicare does not offer rebates for Family Law Counselling

Adelaide Narrative Therapy accepts clients where violence has been alleged in family separation matters. Counselling invites clients to take full personal responsibility for their actions and the effects of their actions on the child/ren and other parent, and considers ways in which the client would like to improve all relationships in their lives. ​​​​​​We have continued the work of Alan Jenkins and colleagues at NADA, in providing court reports to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia.

Many talking therapies are available, as are good therapists, counsellors and psychologists, who focus on general or specific issues. Narrative Therapy and Invitational practices address power and injustice through invitations to people who use violence and are affected by violence, and promotes fairness and accountability to all concerned.

Narrative Therapy and Invitational Accountability practices focus on the way our individual lives and sense of self (identity) are shaped by social attitudes, values, and relationships in their contexts. And by individual and relational power that may generate either conflict and violence or collaboration, care and progression. Our therapeutic philosophies and practice recognises the ways in which social forces create and shape power imbalances particularly encompassing gender relations and where and how this effects parenting and children's lives.

Narrative Therapy and Invitational Accountability practices are developed by skilled practitioners, who have worked for more than 20 years with Men and Women and young people where violence, abuse and trauma have been an awful and unwanted part of their lives. This has included in the main, inviting people who are using violence and abuse toward understanding their ethical preferences whereby they find their own pathways to change. 

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Power differences operate between people and within communities, that generate stories of pain and adversity. Yet amongst these stories are often hidden other stories of survival and hope. Unmasking of these imbalances of power can liberate competence and assist people to move towards a richer knowledge of themselves. A knowledge of the self, full of skills, capabilities and commitments can move people to more preferred ways of living.