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Best Life Counselling’s Couples, Post Separation, and Relationship Conflict Counsellor.
Relationship Counselling for couples, parenting approach disputes, sibling disputes (adults), conflict around care of elders, parent/grandparent disputes, post separation counselling.
Russell’s primary role is working as a Practice Specialist in Family Law and as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner for a large Australian organisation. Russell is Melanie’s husband and now offers relationship counselling through Best Life Counselling. Russell is a person of Christian faith, and welcomes, and has extensive experience in working with people of any faith or no faith background.
Russell has a Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work through the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Conflict Resolution through Latrobe University. Russell also has completed the training and 180 hours of placement through Relationships Australia Victoria’s specialist couples counselling course, and has completed a certificate in Family Therapy. In 2025 Russell completed a course approved by the Internal Family Systems Institute for mediators and believes the learnings from this course will have much relevance to relationship counselling.
Russell is registered with the Australian Counselling Association as a level 2 counsellor. See FAQs on Relationship Counselling for further details.
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