Speaker Session:
A session of two halves | Leaning in: mediator and child specialist interactions
About Suzanne Alliston
Child Specialist | Fair Way Resolution
Suzanne is a Registered Social Worker, based in Nelson. Her most recent role has been in private practice as a therapist specialising in trauma and attachment difficulties with children, young people and whānau. She also provides external supervision to human service professionals. Suzanne is an ACC approved provider of counselling and assessor for mental injury. She has previously worked as a Clinical Team Leader for the STOP Children’s Service (leading a team providing clinical assessment and treatment services to children engaging in concerning sexualised behaviour) as well as Clinical Team Leader at Barnardos with adolescents receiving residential treatment for harmful sexual behaviour.
Suzanne is passionate about safe and connected parenting and has an MA in Therapeutic Child Care from the University of Reading (UK). She has 25 years’ experience working therapeutically with children, young people, adults and family groups.
Leaning in: mediator and child specialist interactions
With our new Child Inclusive Mediation process well and truly entrenched within the FDR framework, it is imperative that mediators and child specialists continue to explore how they can best combine their respective professional expertise to support parents and their tamariki.
This interactive session with Suzanne Alliston and Bill Rainey will look at the importance and appropriateness of information sharing and how by working together, we can facilitate better outcomes for the whanau we support.