Monthly Archives: January 2016

Terri is eight and she knows all about how difficult her father was when he lived with her mother. She is getting bigger now and notices that her father shouts sometimes and sometimes forgets to bring her coat when she is going to school. Terri decides that she will stand up to her dad andContinue reading “Helping Terri”

One of the most painful experiences for targeted parents is when the alienation process begins to escalate and children begin to become difficult, challenging and sometimes downright obnoxious. We may not be familiar with the child who is overly empowered within what is called a ‘fused dyad’ with the other parent and so when thatContinue reading “Empathic Responding with Alienated Children”

Working in the field of parental alienation is not easy, particularly when one is working with families where the crisis of alienation has fully taken hold. This is because being human is to be fallible and being involved with people whose lives are in crisis can cause secondary or vicarious trauma.  Taking care of theContinue reading “The Enlightened Witness in a War Zone”

Those of us working in the field of parental alienation spend a lot of our time thinking about and working with, children whose minds have been captured by a parent’s emotional or psychological reactions to significant change.  As someone working regularly with children who reject or resist a relationship with a parent after separation, IContinue reading “Rescuing the mind of the captured child”

I just wanted to share with you the fact that our first seminar of the year with No 5 Chambers in London is full.  Tonight we will be delivering a presentation on working with the alienated child, based upon our work with families and a number of cases recently in which we have had keyContinue reading “Parental Alienation Awareness”

There are things which appear from the outside to be mysterious which when viewed from the inside look completely different and indeed, in a moment, explain how they were influenced into being.  This week I have been working in the moment with alienated children and have been observing how, when viewed through a particular lens,Continue reading “The mystery of meaning in parental alienation”

Mid January and we are flat out on all fronts at the Family Separation Clinic where we are bringing several projects into being all at once as well as continuing our delivery to families across the UK. All at the same time we are learning, teaching, collaborating, supporting, developing and finishing the tasks that createContinue reading “Changing lives: on the power of professional competence and care”

  (This is my latest from Huffington Post, I repost it here because it is about gender.  As we migrate my work on alienation over to Parental Alienation Direct, I will continue to write here and on Huffington Post about all things concerned with the family and gender, both of which are key areas ofContinue reading “Rebel Rebel”