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Dr Anne Purcell

in Fortitude Valley, QLD

Phone: 07 3113 3700

Website: https://www.resolutionpartners.com.au

Email: [email protected]

Anne Purcell is a dispute resolution specialist focusing on the psychology of interpersonal communication and conflict. She practices as a mediator, family dispute resolution practitioner (FDRP), communication and family professional in the collaborative law process, a parenting co-ordinator and as an international speaker and trainer.

Dr Purcell holds a PhD in Developmental Psycholinguistics and a Masters of Education, Human Development and Psychology. She did her graduate studies at Harvard University in the US and The University of Queensland in Australia.

Anne’s main areas of expertise are educational psychology, communication patterns, the neuroscience of conflict, and parenting styles and their impact on child development.

Anne has worked with more than a thousand families experiencing divorce, separation and family transition. She has a particular interest in high-conflict matters and non-traditional or alternative family structures. In addition, she works on estate or succession disputes, and intergenerational family conflict. She also assists companies and corporations to reduce workplace conflict and increase productivity.

Anne has trained professionals around the world in alternatives to traditional dispute resolution and litigation processes. Her focus is on healthy children after divorce, and on-going respectful relationships between separated couples, families and colleagues.

Dr Purcell and her team at Resolution Partners offer a wide range of services and resources to assist families, individual and workplaces to resolve disputes respectfully.

Anne is a former academic and has held positions as a lecturer, research fellow, trainer and coach in the fields of educational psychology and dispute resolution with the University of Queensland, Queensland University of technology, Bond University and the Australian Catholic University. She previously served on the board of Qld Association of Collaborative Practitioners(QACP), on the training committee for the Australian Association of Collaborative Practitioners (AACP), and is a current faculty member with the International Association of Collaborative Professionals (IACP). She is their sole representative in the Southern Hemisphere.

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