Vincent Papaleo & Associates

I was appointed Mr V. Papaleo by the family law courts in MELBOURNE VICTORIA. In 2013-2015... in regards to the care of my daughter Julia d.o.b 10.4.2005 on whom I love and cared for so dearly and wished only the very best for her... I raised her from birth until she was the age of 8 as her father Natan Kaplan was incarcerated for manslughter charges and released in 2008. Mr Papaleo deem myself as a narcissist and therefore no longer was able to have a relationship with my daughter as she then resided with her father on whom while in prison I made sure Julia had a relationship... after almost 5yrs of heart ache and pain to no longer have contact with my daughter. Julia has now reached out to me now almost 13yrs old Julia does NOT have a relationship with her father. Unknown to myself to what has occurred. Julia is now in care of the grandmother ever since 2017 last 15months...Now clearly this has worked terribly in Julia's favor as a growing teenager when she is in need of her parents at a crital age in life.. being reunited with her forced astranged mother and now no father.... Tell me how was Mr Papaleo's professional discussion correct in the wellfare of my child?...I would not recommend this clinic nor his profession advice. Not enough investigation into character report is suffice..We did not finalize anything in court no papers of whom to care for Julia was made legal as costs were extreme.What now can be done??...to myself Michelle Reyes & daughter Julia Kaplan on how to rebuild our relationship and the pain, hurt, trauma that Mr Papaleo's caused and inflicted on my beloved.. almost 5years of no contact. 5years lost. My rights as a mother taken away.

Vincent Papaleo is a great psychologist. He knows what he’s doing. In my opinion if anyone has an issue with him, it’s because they haven’t been honest in some regard or not telling the whole story. He helped my family enormously.

Great child psycologist. I have referred many families to Vincent P and he has such a great attitude to equality within relationship breakdowns and the best for the children caught up in adult separations.

I've provided a detailed 1-Star review of Dr Ben Jones at another Google Review location (search Dr Ben Jones review" to see it and several other reviews). I won't articulate my concerns again in detail - other than to observe that several earlier reviewers here and elsewhere appear to be bringing up themes/patterns such as those related to bias

Writing a bad review about Papaleo does nothing, report him to AHPRA . This guy is a psychologist not a doctor. He is playing with lives. Want results, want to hold him accountable? Contact AHPRA and put in a complaint.

If it was possible to give zero stars I would. We saw Ben Jones as part of a court ordered Family Report. To say that he was biased in the father’s favour would be a gross mis understatement. He seemed to take everything my ex said as the absolute truth without question while most of what my son and I said was completely dismissed as either lies or not included in the report. I described a 20+ year domestic violence relationship but his comment was that what I described did not fit the legal definition of family violence. Having now done studies in this area as part of a Diploma course, everything I described was completely within the legal definition of family violence. Ben Jones is a dangerously influential forensic psychologist in the Family Court system and I can only recommend staying as far away from him as possible!

I highly recommend working with this psychologist to establish shared parenting post-separation. It’s not something to be figured out on your own. Vince puts the child first and directs parents to act in a manner that reflect the same. He helps us changed out schedules to reflect our son’s needs as he grows up and those change. We both defer to Vince and out court orders direct us to resolve conflict through him.