This is a new venture for me. It is a broader, wider approach to supporting parents and wider family members who are on the journey beyond where they can rescue their children and who are learning how to wait and hope and seeking to live a congruent life whilst doing so. I will be writing for A Congruent Life regularly, it is my journey on that road beyond the court process and into the world where parents wait for their children to get free. I will be sharing stories on here from parents whose children did get free and will be interviewing children as well as their parents about those things which helped them most. Here is where those who wait are welcome. Here is where we will not push the river but learn how to help it flow.
Karen Woodall
This is the official website of Karen Woodall where I write about Coerced Alignment of children in divorce and separation and Lighthouse Keeping, which is our adapted therapeutic parenting training for parents in the rejected position.
My new book is called The Journey of the Alienated Child, it will be published by Routledge in Autumn 2026.
I am currently writing the Clinical Handbook for working with coerced children with Nick Woodall who is co-founder of the Family Separation Clinic and you can find out more about that and other books we are writing and resources we are creating by following the links below.
For information about my clinical work including training and supervision for professionals training please go to the Family Separation Clinic
For details of our Lighthouse Keeping Courses and Resources
For Watch on Demand Services please go to FSCparenting.com
Our new Lighthouse Keeping Club subscription service will be available in 2026 for details of this and other resources to support you, please subscribe to our Therapeutic Parenting Newsletter below.
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