Wellbeing & Support
We are specialists in helping families navigate separation, family issues and divorce.
Family Solutions is a team of highly experienced family professionals from various backgrounds dedicated to helping couples and families find ways of moving forward with their lives after a separation. We provide constructive, practical, legal and emotional support, to enable our clients achieve the best outcome for them.
Separation, divorce and family breakdown is tough. You might be trying to make practical arrangements when your emotional brain is all over the place. We offer extra support to get you prepared for the challenges ahead.
We have specialists on hand to help anyone or everyone involved. You might need support in coming to terms with a break up, help managing your meetings or communicating more effectively. We can offer support to couples, individuals and children, and also provide help with parenting after separation.
How it Works
Even in happy times, relationships aren’t always easy to navigate. They are complex and consist of mutual dealings, connections, and differing feelings between two or more people.
That is why it’s so important for us to recognise that family breakdown can be really hard, and overwhelming, because your relationships are changing. We’ll listen to what you need and will help you move towards a more calm and centred way of thinking and communicating, so that you can work through the emotional, practical and legal arrangements. Kimberley is a qualified counsellor, psychotherapist and family consultant. She works in a variety of ways, as a family or as individuals, alongside all of our solutions. Kimberley helps navigate the practical and emotional side of separation and co-parenting.
The aim is to give you the space and time to process whatever may be troubling you, so that you are in the best place possible to work together. Relationship breakdown can lead to barriers in communicating – you might need support to help you deal with the emotions so that you can communicate better with your co-parent. Or you might need more coaching-like help, so that you are able to speak effectively in meetings.
We’re available to support you from the outset, perhaps even before separation has started; separation or divorce is about much more than the law and formalities.
We offer an initial conversation with one of our in house team to consider which of their services might work best for you. Our support can be provided in person, or online.
Costs
Once you have had your initial conversation with one of our team, or once you have had your first joint meeting, you may then each have an exploratory chat with Kimberley. If you are starting mediation with us, the fee for that is included in that first joint session fee.
After that, in mediation we charge an hourly rate for Kimberley to work with you either as individuals or as a couple. Sadly legal aid doesn’t cover any therapeutic work, unless it has been ordered by the Court. We offer reduced fees for legally aided clients. Family Consultancy is not covered by the Voucher Scheme.
We are currently developing a Parenting After Separation programme, more details will follow soon.
For all of our other solutions, we charge £90 per person for an individual consultation, and then work with you to understand what support you would like. Together we then create a fee package with you.
For details of the fees for counselling, read more here
Testimonial
“We were recommended Family Solutions, and I can completely see why!
When we entered this process I was very stressed, emotional and struggling to see how this difficult situation could be resolved.
From the first conversation with Claire, I felt understood but also that she genuinely wants what’s best for the child involved.
Family Solutions took into consideration my child’s feelings, emotions and what pace of ‘moving forward’ she could handle. Claire really cares about the families she deals with and felt that it wasn’t a one solution fits all families format, she considers everyone’s needs when trying to come up with a solution.
For us, the best path for resolving our issues was family therapy with Kimberley. Kim’s work is professional, kind and supportive. She has worked very closely with my child helping her overcome her own barriers to see this situation more clearly and also from other peoples perspectives.
My child and I will always be grateful for Kim’s guidance during this time. When I asked my child how she would use to describe Kim she said ‘she pushes me to talk about things I find difficult but also she makes me feel comfortable’.
I think this is a perfect description of a very good therapist, helping us with those difficult conversations but also being comfortable in their presence.
I appreciate all that Claire and the team have done for our family and couldn’t recommend their services highly enough.”
– AN