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Separation Counselling in Melbourne
Separation counselling helps you decide deliberately rather than by attrition, and where the relationship is ending, to end it with less damage to everyone in it.
Separation counselling and divorce counselling, attended alone or together, in person in Melbourne or online across Australia. A divorce counsellor handles the decisions, the co-parenting and the part that keeps you awake — the things a lawyer does not.
50-minute sessionsIndividually or as a coupleCo-parenting focus
$198 per 50-minute session, or $253 when you attend together as a couple. GST included. Full fees are on the packages and pricing page. Sessions run online by secure video across Australia and New Zealand, by telephone, or in person in Melbourne by arrangement.
In short
Separation counselling helps you decide deliberately rather than by attrition, and where the relationship is ending, to end it with less damage — particularly with children involved. Attend alone at $198 or together at $253 per 50-minute session, GST included. A divorce counsellor handles what a lawyer does not.
Two very different pieces of work sit here. The first is deciding: staying because leaving is frightening is not the same as choosing to stay, and most people circling this decision have never had one clear conversation about it. The second is separating well — practically, emotionally and, where there are children, co-operatively.
Sessions run individually or as a couple. Grief is treated as grief: the loss of a shared future is a real bereavement, whether or not the separation was your decision, and it deserves the same room as any other loss.
People come here when
- The decision has been circling for months or years
- One of you has decided and the other has not
- You want to separate without destroying the co-parenting
- You have separated and cannot stop replaying it
- You are grieving a relationship nobody has acknowledged
What we work on together
Separate with less damage
Communication ground rules, and keeping children out of the middle of adult conflict.
Grieve it properly
The loss of a shared future gets treated as grief rather than a failure to move on.
How the work unfolds
Decision workCo-parenting focusGrief-informedIndividually or as a couple
01
Get the decision out of the fog
What you want, what you fear, and what each path actually looks like — said out loud once, clearly.
02
Ground rules
How to communicate during a separation without every exchange becoming evidence.
03
Protect the children
Keeping them out of the middle: what to say, what not to say, and how to hold a united line on the essentials.
04
Grieve and rebuild
Treating the loss as grief, then reconstructing identity, routine and a future.
Where a relationship is ending, the goal changes. It becomes ending it with the least damage to everyone still in it.
Anne Evans · Counsellor & Psychotherapist
Common questions
Can you tell me whether to leave?+
No, and I would not trust anyone who would. I can help you see it clearly enough to decide rather than drift.
Is this mediation?+
No. Mediation settles property and parenting arrangements; this is the emotional and communication work alongside it.
Can we come together if we have already separated?+
Yes. Post-separation sessions to build a workable co-parenting relationship are some of the most useful work there is.
More answers in the general FAQs, or ask Anne directly.
Often works alongside
Relationship Counselling
For couples who keep having the same argument, and want a different ending.
Grief Counselling
For any loss — death, separation, diagnosis, estrangement — at your own pace.
Individual Counselling
One-to-one work to understand what is going on and decide what to do about it.
Ready to start with Separation & Divorce Counselling?
Book online in under a minute, or send a question first — Anne answers her own enquiries.