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Welcome to Better Pride
If you’re here, it’s because you’re seeking something better. At Better Pride, we’re committed to providing a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental environment to support you through life experiences and decisions. We want to help you increase self-awareness, find ways to better care for yourself, and support with relationships.
Recognising that everyone’s journey is unique, we are dedicated to assisting you in reaching a better place with respect and understanding.
Who are we here for?
- Families (biological, social and chosen) – either together or separated/separating
- Couples (together or separating or reconciling)
- Individuals
- Young People (including children from ages 5>)
- Elder/Senior people (individuals, couples, families – biological and chosen)
Better Pride LGBTIQ+ Services
Mediation, including Separation/Parenting/Care
Support for LGBTIQ+ families in conflict gain clarity about each person’s perspective, explore their options and make decisions that will work best for their situation.
Counselling
Our counsellors can provide you with an opportunity to unburden yourself, process and begin feeling better.
Psychological mental health support
Working with a Better Pride practitioner can enable you to deal with mental health challenges more easily and constructively.
We can help with
- Life changes and challenges
- Anxiety and depression
- Bullying
- Isolation
- Estrangement from loved ones
- Traumatic experience
Better ways to separate- our mediation alternatives
Better Pride Practitioners understand Family Law and work alongside the legal system to provide a less stressful and more cost-effective way to navigate these already difficult times.
The Better Pride mediation service is provided by Accredited Family Dispute Resolution practitioners experienced in separation and family law issues. They can support you with:
- Parenting plans and arrangements
- Post-separation parenting decisions, including supporting rainbow children
- Mediating agreements about finances and property
- Decisions involving guild families/Co parents/ carers
- Grandparent arrangements
- Arrangements for pets
Better Pride also offers other forms of mediation, such as:
- Donor planning
- Guild families/Co parents/ carers
Better Support for counselling and mental health
We can provide a range of therapeutic supports for couples, individuals, older people, families, children and young people.
Our mental health practitioners include case workers, social workers, counsellors and psychologists.
Our Better Pride Team
From your initial contact with us, you can expect non-judgmental, informative service and genuine support in finding the right service for you. To use our service, you will first need to contact our Intake and Assessment team and let them know that you are interested in accessing Better Pride services.
Better Pride Practitioners identify as members or allies of the LGBTIQ+ communities. We offer a depth of experience working with children and young people as well as adults and families, including older people.
Please call our dedicated Better Pride contact number 1800 531 919
