We believe each parent should be afforded a safe and confidential space to talk about their feelings separate to the assessment process but during the family law process. The director found these confidential support interventions (such as therapeutic/ life coaching) allowed her to separate her own feelings during the court assessment process and prioritise her child’s needs during the court process whilst having the option to speak about her own emotions with a life coach and EFT practitioner in a safe environment.  

The biggest lesson learned from this was that it’s essential that the parents’ trauma from the pre court process is acknowledged during the assessment process by the assessor and by the courts who are making life changing decisions. This model of the holistic trauma-based parenting assessment is a comprehensive new approach to the assessment process to assist the families to achieve the right outcomes for them which are more sustainable long term. We have also developed a parental alienation assessment and able to assess coercive control.