Finding Peace, Building Resilience, Bridging Relationships
BRB Mediation is the private practice of Bianca Roche-Bolger. It is a place for families going through significant change and restructure to work through frameworks and create child focused parenting plans. With a focus on children's wellbeing and adjustment during separation and divorce, relationship repair is prioritised. BRB Mediation helps families to understand the attachment and developmental needs of children at times of change while working to protecting them from the trauma associated with family conflict.
About Bianca Roche-Bolger
Nationally Accredited Mediator (NMAS), Family Therapist, Social Worker, Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Resolution Institute Accredited Mediator, Child Consultant, Collaborative Coach
Bianca has been working with families at times of crisis and change for over 25 years. Beginning her career as a clinical Social Worker at Redbank House, Department of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry Westmead Hospital, Bianca went on to train in mediation with the Resolution Institute and gained accreditation as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner in 2008.
Bianca has worked with hundreds of families going through separation and divorce and has gained a wealth of experience in mediating with parents and children in crisis, including managing complex cases at Family Relationship Centres and those involving family violence. Bianca works from an empathetic, relational framework, and helps clients understand their conflict and grief in the context of systemic theory, relational trauma, and neurobiology.
Bianca has experience as a coach for NMAS mediator accreditation with the College of Law and has co-facilitated the Graduate Diploma in Family Dispute Resolution with the Relationships Australia NSW (previously Australian Institute of Relationship Studies (AIRS).
Bianca is a specialist in Child Consultation having practiced extensively across different programs with Relationships Australia NSW and in private practice for the past 15 years. As an experienced Child Consultant and an impartial practitioner, Bianca provides children with a meaningful experience of reflecting on their changing family. Through both the processes of Family Dispute Resolution and Child Consultation, Bianca supports parents in conflict to hear their child’s “voice” and assists them in making decisions that keep their children’s emotional and developmental needs at the fore front, whilst building and maintaining a parental alliance for the years ahead.
Bianca has trained in Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice and has provided Coaching and Child Consultation as part of the Relationships Australia NSW Collaborative Practice Team and is a sitting Board member of Collaborative Professionals NSW in 2024.
Bianca has also completed clinical supervision training with Relationships Australia NSW and provides clinical supervision and mentoring to students and newly trained FDRP’s and Child Consultants.
Professional Memberships
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Member of Australian Association of Social Workers
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Member of Resolution Institute
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Member of Australian Association of Collaborative Professionals
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Member of Central Sydney Collaborative Forum, Collaborative Professionals NSW
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Board member of Collaborative Professionals NSW (CPNSW)
Awards
At the end of 2023, Bianca was awarded her Master of Clinical Family Therapy from the Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University, and now offers therapy to families across the generations. She has also been rated by the Doyles Guide as a “Recommended Family Law Mediator” 2021-2024.
Qualifications
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Master of Clinical Family Therapy - Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University
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Bachelor of Social Work - The University of Sydney
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Trained Child Consultant - Relationships Australia NSW
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Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practitioner - Relationships Australia NSW and University of Technology Sydney
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Nationally Accredited Mediator (NMAS) - Australian Mediation Association
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Resolution Institute Accredited Mediator - Resolution Institute
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Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner - Attorney General’s Department
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Clinical Supervisor - Relationships Australia NSW
Bianca Roche-Bolger is a founding member of The Mediation Collective, where she collaborates with three other highly experienced colleagues to provide best practice post-separation services. Our work at The Mediation Collective is aimed at creating alternatives to the adversarial approach of litigation in family disputes. We back each other and trust each other.
Operating within a cooperative model of family support professionals means that families going through separation have access to a range of backgrounds and skills. Being part of this collegial environment creates a resource rich experience for families, and means the children have the best chances of a positive outcome.
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My Mission
I help adults to protect children. My main mission is to support parents during one of the most difficult times of their lives to create space so they can be available to their children.
I work from an empathetic, relational framework, aiding my clients in understanding their conflict and grief in the context of systemic theory, relational trauma and neurobiology.
Ultimately, I understand relationships are tricky but they are also the things that make us thrive. Life goes through cycles around our relationships and sometimes there will be pain and trauma related to change. When I am walking beside you I can help mitigate those challenges by providing you the tools to find your own way forward for your family.
