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How a Parenting Coordinator can help you?
Parenting Coordination is a child centred process for conflicted divorced and divorcing parents. It is a dispute resolution technique to help parents organise their ongoing parenting arrangements before, during and after they have reached their final Court Orders. Through education, mediation and case management, the family’s post-separation progress is monitored to help parents ensure the best possible outcomes for their children.
Meet our Parenting Coordinators
Meet your Parenting Coordinators


Dr Purcell holds a PhD in Developmental Psycholinguistics and a Masters of Education, Human Development and Psychology. She did her graduate studies at Harvard University in the US and The University of Queensland in Australia. Anne’s main areas of expertise are educational psychology, communication patterns, the neuroscience of conflict, and parenting styles and their impact on child development.
Anne has worked with more than a thousand families experiencing divorce, separation and family transition. She has a particular interest in high-conflict matters and non-traditional or alternative family structures. In addition, she works on estate or succession disputes, and intergenerational family conflict.
She also assists companies and corporations to reduce workplace conflict and increase productivity.
Anne has trained professionals around the world in alternatives to traditional dispute resolution and litigation processes. Her focus is on healthy children after divorce, and on-going respectful relationships between separated couples, families and colleagues.
Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Mediation Certificate - Bond University
- Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner Certificate - Relationships Australia
- Vocational Graduate Diploma in Family Dispute Resolution Attorney-General’s Department
- Collaborative Law Training - QLD Collaborative Law and IACP
- Postgraduate - Harvard University, MA, USA and The University of Queensland, Australia
- Undergraduate - The University of Queensland, Australia


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Laws (QUT) 1985
- Accredited Family Law Specialist (1996)
- Nationally Accredited Mediator
- Collaborative Lawyer and Trainer
- Nationally Accredited Arbitrator
- Parenting Coordinator


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Master of Laws (Applied Law)
- Family Dispute Resolution Practice
- Post Graduate Diploma Legal Practice
- Bachelor of Laws
- Certificate IV - Training and Assessment


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Collaborative Lawyer & Coach
- Masters of Family Law
- Attorney General Registered FDRP
- NMAS registered Mediator
- Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Education
- Diploma of Teaching


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Family Lawyer
- Parenting Coordinator
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Psychological Science


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Diploma of Law (LPAB)
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
- Master of Applied Law (Family Law)
- Bachelor of Education
- Collaborative Practitioner
- Legal Aid Panel - Independent Children's Lawyer
- Member of Law Society of NSW
- Member of the Family Law Section
- Member of the Women Lawyers' Association of NSW
- Member of Australian Association of Collaborative Professionals


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Parenting Coordinator
- Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- NMAS Mediator
- LLB
- BA Communications


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Parenting Coordination Australia 2021
- Advanced Collaborative Training with Clarissa Rayward 2019
- Independent Children's Lawyer - Law Council of Australia and National Legal Aid 2015
- Admitted to the Supreme Court of South Australia 2013
- GDLP Australian National University & Charles Darwin University 2008

Courses, Qualifications & Experience:


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Science majoring in Psychology
- Parenting Coordination Australia Course Graduate
- Parenting Coordination Australia Course Graduate


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Juris Doctor (Honours)
- Bachelor of Business (Finance)
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
- Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- Collaborative Practitioner
- Law Council of Australia - Family Law Section
- ACT Law Society
- ACT Law Society Family Violence and Children's Committee
- Family Law Pathways Network - ACT & Region
- Australian Association of Collaborative Professionals
- Collaborative Professionals NSW
- Canberra Collaborative Family Lawyers
- Mediation Institute


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Science
- Collaborative Practitioner
- National Accredited Mediator
- Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- Family Law Practitioner's Association
- Accredited Specialist in Family Law
- Legal Practitioner Director and Solicitor managing Family Law Group Solicitors


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Arts
- Graduate Diploma of Social Science (Human Services - Counselling)
- Collaborative Lawyer


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (FDRP)
- Registered and Accredited Mediator (NMAS)
- Certified MindMAP Coach (cognitive and behavioural neuroscience)
- Accredited Trainer and Assessor
- Accredited Trainer and Assessor


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Accredited Family Law Specialist
- Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- Accredited Mediator
- Collaborative Lawyer


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Family Law Barrister and Solicitor
- Collaborative Lawyer
- Nationally Accredited Mediator


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Parenting Coordinator
- Mediator (NMAS)
- FDRP
- Family Group Conference Organiser
- Arbitrator
- Lawyer

Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Case Manager in Post Separation Cooperative Parenting (2012 – 2021)
- Retired teacher (primary & secondary English) 1979 - 2010
- Parenting Coordinator (Parenting Coordination Australia)
- Managing High Conflict Personalities (Megan Hunter) 2016


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Arts (Sociology), Bachelor of Laws, and Master of Laws (Monash)
- Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- Nationally Accredited Mediator
- Recommended Family Law Mediator (Doyle's 2020, 2021 & 2022)


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Master of Laws in Applied Family Law
- Coaches Mediation and Dispute Resolution
- Awarded PhD Equivalence in Law at RMIT
- Nationally Accredited Mediator
- Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner

Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Laws Degree
- Diploma of Legal Practice
- Certificate of Parenting Coordination
- Legal Aid Panel - Family Law
- Member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia

Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Law/Bachelor of Commerce, Griffith University
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law, Queensland
- Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland
- Solicitor of the High Court of Australia
- Member of Family Law Practitioners Association

Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Lawyer and collaborative professional
- LLB (Hons) BCom (Politics)
- Member of Family Law Practitioners Association, Queensland Association of Collaborative
- Professionals, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and Parenting Coordination Australia


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Doctorate of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) (DPsych)
- Master of Psychology (Clinical) Equivalent
- Bachelor of Psychology
- Bachelor of Legal Studies (Family Law and Dispute Resolution)
- Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- Parenting Coordinator


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Undergraduate: Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), University of Queensland
- Post graduate: Masters of Counseling Psychology, Queensland University of Technology
- Parenting Coordinator accreditation, Parenting Coordination Australia
- Australian Counseling Association
- Australasian Solution Focused Association


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Law
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Masters of Applied Law (Family Law)
- Collaborative Solicitor
- Parenting Coordinator


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (1996)
- Bachelor of Commerce (1996)
- Nationally Accredited Mediator (2003)
- Appointment as an Independent Childrens Lawyer (2003)
- Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- Collaboratively Trained Practitioner
- Parenting Coordinator
- Collaboratively Trained Practitioner
- Principal Practicing Certificate (2010)
- Parenting Coordination Certificate 2021


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Laws (Hons)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Bachelor of Social Work
- Master of Social Work
- Graduate Diploma in Family Dispute Resolution
- Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Australia
- Nationally Accredited Mediator, Australia
- Accredited Family & General Mediator and Supervisor, Hong Kong
- Accredited Arbitrator, Australia
- Trained Parenting Coordinator, Association of Family Courts and Conciliation (AFCC) compliant

Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution
- Registered Psychologist (APS, AHPRA)
- NMAS registered mediator
- Child Inclusive practice
- Smart recovery facilitator / Addiction specialist


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Commerce (majored in Human Resource management)
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (PLT)
- Certificate of Legal Business Skills from the College of Law
- Masters in Applied Law (Family Law) & (majoring in Family Dispute Resolution Practice)

Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Art, Hons (Psychology), Deakin University 1998
- Post-graduate Certificate in Developmental Trauma, Australian Childhood Foundation, 2014
- Certificate: High Conflict Coparenting: Interventions for Children's Alignment and Resistance 2019-2020, William James College, USA.


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- Counselling and Family Therapy
- Parenting Co-ordination
- Children Beyond Dispute - Professor Jen McIntosh
- Nationally Accredited Mediator
- Collaborative Law in the Family Law jurisdiction

Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Accredited Specialist Family Lawyer
- Collaborative Family Lawyer
- Parenting Coordinator
- Member International Academy of Family Lawyers
- Board Member, Australian Association of Collaborative Professionals
- Member, NSW Law Society


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Nationally Accredited Mediator
- Cinergy Conflict Coach
- Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- Parenting Coordinator
- Neuro-Linguistic and Neuro-Semantics Master Practitioner
- Neuro-Linguistic and Neuro-Semantics Master Practitioner
- Justice of the Peace
- Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives
- Child Inclusive Practice


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor of Law
- Bachelor of Social Work
- Accredited Family Law Specialist
- Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- Accredited Mediator


Courses, Qualifications & Experience:
- Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and Mediator
- Child Inclusive Practice Consultant
- Parenting Coordinator
- Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice Family Professional and Coach
- Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice Family Professional and Coach
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