Communication and conflict cycles
Notice the repeatable sequence beneath recurring arguments: pursuit, withdrawal, escalation, silence, repair attempts and the needs each person struggles to express.
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Relationship and family counselling online
Understand the pattern—not just the latest argument.
Support for couples, individuals and families navigating communication, conflict, disconnection, boundaries, caregiving, loyalty and the expectations people carry into relationships.
Couples, individuals & familiesWhole-system perspectiveAustralia-wide telehealth
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A social-work and family-systems lens
Relationships exist inside real lives.
Roles, boundaries and responsibility
Explore who carries emotional labour, decision-making, caregiving, money pressure or family diplomacy—and what a fairer pattern might look like.
Connection, repair and change
Build safer ways to speak, listen, disagree, apologise and reconnect without expecting one person to absorb all the discomfort.
Complex relationships, separation and safety
When the relationship problem is bigger than communication.
Separation, divorce and co-parenting
Support to think through a difficult or high-conflict separation, shifting family roles, parenting communication, grief, anger and decisions that can be hard to separate from the emotional impact.
Police or domestic and family violence involvement
Trauma-informed support that takes safety, power and coercive dynamics seriously. Joint couples work is not assumed to be appropriate; suitability and safety are considered before any shared session.
Preparing for mediation or advocacy
Clarify priorities, boundaries, questions and language before mediation, legal appointments or advocacy conversations. Counselling can support your participation, but does not replace legal advice, formal advocacy or accredited family dispute resolution.
Restorative family counselling
Making room for repair, transition and shared decisions.
Restorative relationship work
Create a structured space to understand impact, responsibility, unmet needs and what meaningful repair could look like. Reconciliation is not assumed; sometimes restoration means a clearer, safer way forward.
Caregiving and later-life decisions
Support for siblings, partners and extended family navigating ageing, changing capacity, aged care, health decisions, grief, uneven responsibility and old family patterns returning under pressure.
Separation, divorce and mediation preparation
Prepare for difficult conversations, mediation or co-parenting decisions with greater clarity about priorities, boundaries and the emotional pattern around the dispute. This is counselling and preparation, not legal advice or formal mediation.
Family session fee: $200 for two people for 60 minutes, plus 10% of the base fee for each additional participant. Three people are $220; four people are $240. Contact Meg before booking so the people attending and the purpose of the session can be considered.
Not every family looks the same
Immediate family is only part of the picture.
Relationship work may include extended family, blended families, chosen family, co-parenting, faith, disability, neurodivergence, migration, community roles and intergenerational expectations. The aim is not to impose one “healthy family” template, but to understand the system you live inside and create workable change.
Online workshop
Relationships, family patterns and expectations.
MEB Counselling's next 4–8 week facilitated workshop explores communication, boundaries, repair, family roles and the gap between personal needs and inherited expectations. Sessions are 50 minutes online and cost A$40 each. Dates are announced when the next cohort forms.
Express interest in MEB Counselling's next workshopRelationships can change when the pattern becomes visible.
Book online counselling or express interest in a facilitated learning group.
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