Karen Woodall – Psychotherapist, Writer, Researcher, Trainer

The end of 2024 is the beginning of 2025 and as the year turns we are finalising the content for the Lighthouse Academy, our online support hub for parents with children who have become alienated through the experience of attachment trauma in divorce and separation. Some of our new downloadable content is below, we use these to train professionals who work with families affected by a child’s rejecting behaviour, to help them to understand how children behave when they are trauma bonded to abusive parents. You will soon be able to download these and a lot of other educational content from our site along with watch on demand training.

All of our work is based upon successful work with families where children have experienced psychological splitting, this work has been undertaken in the family courts in the UK and other countries and outside of the courts around the world. Our work is evaluated and recognised by the High Court of England and Wales in healing severely alienated children and restoring integration to children’s sense of self.

In 2025 we aim to provide parents all over the world with the resources to learn therapeutic parenting skills and to use them effectively, even with children who have been absent for many years. We know from the many testimonials we receive that this approach works because it matches the needs of the alienated child.

We will also continue to train and educate professionals and raise awareness of the serious harm that attachment trauma can cause to children in divorce and separation. Using our evidence based outcomes, we will speak up for alienated children and their families in an environment which is increasingly hostile and manipulated by the same psychopathology which causes alienation in children.

With three new books on the horizon and a great deal of information to share, we hope you will join us in 2025 as we make alienated children seen, safe, soothed and secure through supporting the person who is the very best therapist of all – you.