Our Services
Family Mediation Highland offers a range of services to support families throughout the Highlands. Whether you need help communicating during separation, a safe space for child contact, or support for your children, we’re here to help.
Family Mediation
Family mediation is a voluntary and confidential process where a trained, impartial mediator helps family members to better communicate and to agree on practical, workable arrangements for the future, taking into account their children’s views, needs and feelings.
Mediation benefits families by reducing conflict, improving family life and avoiding costly legal battles. Mediators don’t take sides or make judgments but support parents to decide on what would work best for their own family situation.
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Child Contact Centres help children affected by family breakdown by providing a safe, friendly and neutral environment for them to meet, and spend time, with their non-resident parent or other family member.
The centre acts as a stepping stone towards establishing more permanent contact arrangements. We offer a range of contact services at our centre in Inverness and Wick including supported handover, supported contact, supervised contact, video contact, and indirect contact services.
Children & Young Persons Counselling
Confidential counselling is available to children and young people (aged 5-18 years) experiencing difficulties due to parental separation or family changes.
Our counselling service offers one-to-one support to help children explore their thoughts and feelings and make sense of changes in their family life. Sessions are tailored to the child’s age and needs, using play therapy, art and conversation to help them process their emotions in a safe space.
Parenting Apart
Parenting Apart information sessions provide an opportunity for parents to find out how to help their children successfully manage the separation.
These sessions may assist parents begin to think about how they can effectively parent their children together whilst living apart. Topics covered include understanding children’s needs, communication strategies and building a positive co-parenting relationship.
Not sure which service you need?
Get in touch with our team and we’ll help you find the right support for your situation. All initial enquiries are handled with complete confidentiality.
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