About
Our Family Report Specialists
As we adapt to the impact of COVID-19, a combination of video conference and face-to-face interviews will continue to occur. Please contact us to discuss.
As we adapt to the impact of COVID-19, a combination of video conference and face-to-face interviews will continue to occur. Please contact us to discuss.
Our Family Report Specialists
BA(Psych/Crim), PGDip EdPsych, MPsych. MAPS, AHPRA, AFCC and Pacifica Congress
Susan Buckley is an experienced psychologist specialising in supporting separated families. She employs a child-centred systems approach, carefully analysing children’s developmental paths during separations and family changes. Susan provides S62G single expert reports for parents involved in Family Law Court proceedings, conducting comprehensive Family Reports, Child Impact Assessments and Single Issues Reports.
Passionate about issues concerning children, couples and families, Sue has extensive expertise in assisting distressed parents and families. She draws upon her training in family therapy, relationship counselling and family dispute resolution, to help manage family dynamics and children’s arrangements.
Sue works in a respectful, direct, and compassionate manner. She can accommodate urgent reports and negotiate fast turnaround times.
Sue is an experienced clinician who has worked as a generalist counsellor for many years. She is passionate about all issues pertaining to children, couples and families. Sue has considerable expertise helping couples and families in distress. She combines her training in family therapy and relationship counselling to help couples and families manage the family dynamics.
MSW, AASW
Franco is an experienced Family Consultant and Specialist Family Report Writer.
From his many years employed as a Counsellor at the Family Court of Australia and at the Federal Magistrates Court (now the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia), Franco gained extensive experience in report preparation and cross examination.
After leaving the Court, he worked for some time at a Family Relationship Centre where he gained considerable experience in counselling couples, families and children.
He is well-known and well-respected amongst the legal profession & now consults exclusively in private practice.
Franco’s areas of interest include relocation, transcultural and transgender matters, grandparental roles and shared parenting. He is mindful of the stressful and difficult time parents and children can go through both prior to and following a separation. He brings a gentle, compassionate and caring approach to all his areas of work.
His rooms, situated in the Melbourne CBD, make them an ideal and accessible location.
Annette is a dedicated professional who works with people experiencing conflict, uncertainty and who seek change. She is well known for her ability to help others find new ways to think, communicate, resolve conflict and thrive.
In 2021, Annette was honoured to receive the Australian and New Zealand, Resolution Institute, “Achievement Award” for her success in family law dispute resolution.
When you meet Annette, the first thing you will notice is how personable, approachable and passionate she is about conflict resolution, coaching and facilitation within the family law and workplace sectors.
Annette’s passion comes from 25 years as a human resources, industrial relations and corporate development executive, and from being a parent of now adult children.
Best known for her ability to uncover the human factors, that when addressed, result in the greatest benefit to individuals, families, teams and organisations, Annette has been instrumental in the success of organisations and families.
Annette has resolved long-standing family law and workplace disputes, led organisational change, and repeatedly demonstrates skills in flexibility by applying a range of mediation, facilitation and coaching approaches.
Annette works with clients throughout Australia, and has experience working with culturally diverse clients, along with Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander clients in the Northern Territory.
Annette’s services include post separation parenting and property dispute resolution, court ordered and legally assisted mediations, family law certificates, workplace mediations, coaching, program design and delivery.
Clients and organisations are supported to reach final and/or interim agreements, resolve multi party disputes, and are supported to achieve their personal, team, family or organisational goals.
Clients and lawyers say they experienced tailored solutions that led to new thinking around complex matters.
BSW MAASW
Trevor has 40 years’ experience in community services, child and adolescent mental health, and as a family report writer and single expert witness in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia for the last 20 years.
Trevor spent his early career as a cognitive behavioural therapist before becoming a senior clinician in child and adolescent psychiatry, and later a regional coordinator of clinical services with Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS). He has worked in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia and in private practice as a single expert witness and family report writer since 2003.
His areas of expertise are individual counselling with children and adolescents, couples counselling, and family therapy from a systems and narrative perspective. His reports are evidence-based and provide a developmental, clinical and systems analysis suited to cross examination.
BSW (UNSW) PhD (Melbourne University)
Michelle Meyer has nearly thirty years’ experience as a Regulation 7 Family Report Writer. She brings personal attributes of compassion, insight, and integrity, always focussed on the best interests of the child.
She has extensive experience with complex family issues, including family violence, cultural issues, relocation, and disability.
Michelle is also a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and welcomes referrals for mediation for parenting arrangements in Family Law matters.
Michelle has vast experience in restorative practices and integrates those principles into her mediation, allowing families to work through problems together and where appropriate, tap into the resources of extended families in the decision-making process. Restorative principles also focus on repairing the harm from parental conflict, empowering children and other family members to have a voice and facilitating apologies to rebuild relationships.
Michelle has a particular interest in child inclusive practice and has been a Child Consultant for seventeen years. She has a passion for child focussed work, and empowering children to have a voice. Michelle welcomes referrals child consultations in mediation matters.
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Family Report Specialists & Family Consultants