Karen Woodall – Psychotherapist, Writer, Researcher, Trainer

HELPING AND HEALING ALIENATED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES

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18 Dec 2025

Connecting at Christmas – A Guide for Parents in the Rejected Position
9 Dec 2025

Working with relational healing: therapeutic work with alienated children
26 Nov 2025

Remembering Claire Cox: a loved member of our mothers’ healing group and a beacon of light who lit up the world.
18 Nov 2025

Neuroception and the alienated child: understanding the nervous system of alignment and rejection
12 Nov 2025

Learn therapeutic parenting for alienated children on-demand from FSC Parenting
10 Nov 2025

The half alive ones: alienation, fragmentation and the invisible scars of hidden harm
5 Nov 2025

Locked in: the impact of attachment trauma on children of divorce and separation
22 Oct 2025

The presumption pendulum swings
20 Oct 2025

Fear without solution: the entrapment of the coerced child
11 Oct 2025

The pain of the parent in the rejected position: psychological, physiological and preventable
6 Oct 2025

Collusive bargaining: Hidden harm of children in divorce and separation
29 Sep 2025

Ghosts of the parental past: Exorcising demons and recovering from alienation
23 Sep 2025

Home is where we start from: healing transgenerational trauma
17 Sep 2025

Supporting the voice of the recovered alienated child
11 Sep 2025

Alienation: right word, wrong formulation
3 Sep 2025

The role of narcissistic abuse in children’s rejection of healthy parents
25 Aug 2025

Trapped in the Mirror: understanding narcissistic parental abuse of children
19 Aug 2025

The silencing of the lambs: On straw men, red herrings and hidden harm at home
11 Aug 2025

Unhealthy mirrors: Ideological capture and the family courts
30 Jul 2025

Building resilience through and after trauma: a Charity Fundraiser
21 Jul 2025

Hidden harm at home: The secret of the alienated child
14 Jul 2025

Politics, Polemic and Projections: Children’s needs vs women’s rights in the family court
30 Jun 2025

Living in unreality: projective identification in the family courts
13 Jun 2025

What did they know and how did they know it? Transparency in the family courts
9 Jun 2025

Silenced: children’s experience of abuse in divorce and separation
26 May 2025

A loss too big for words: coercive control in the lives of children of divorce and separation
11 May 2025

Mother’s Day and Alienated Children
6 May 2025

Terrorised: Children in Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse
28 Apr 2025

Moving from So What to What if?
22 Apr 2025

Bruises on my soul: Narcissistic abuse and alienation of children in divorce and separation
15 Apr 2025

Sabotage and Psychopathology: How Systems fail alienated children
31 Mar 2025

Introducing The Journey of the Alienated Child
30 Mar 2025

For mothers rejected by their children in divorce and separation
24 Mar 2025

Terror, trauma and therapeutic parenting after divorce and separation
18 Mar 2025

The Trauma of the Alienated Child
14 Mar 2025

The Journey of the Alienated Child
3 Mar 2025

Facts not feelings: Family Therapy in the Family Courts of England and Wales
17 Feb 2025

Out of the shadows: a psychological approach to understanding coercive control in family separation
10 Feb 2025

Structural therapeutic parenting for alienated children
24 Jan 2025

Thinking the unthinkable: protecting children who are trauma bonded to abusive parents in family separation