Karen Woodall

Today Nick is in Bucharest in Romania speaking at  the interdisciplinary approach of litigation with minor in cases of Parental Alienation Conference with leading Romanian Judiciary. This conference is held…

In my work with alienated children and their families, I am aware that they are often not the only children in the room with me. For those who are aware…

It is only when the underlying predicament of the alienated child is fully understood that the particular language used by alienated children can be recognised. As part of the work…

The term parental alienation is used widely to describe a child's unjustified rejection of a parent after family separation.  Unjustified rejection is described as a child rejecting a parent when…

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Despite the efforts of political ideological groups to prevent it, on May 25th 2019, the World Health Organisation accepted the current version of ICD-11 which contains within it the index…

Parental alienation doesn't just affect the horizontal family line, parents and children, it affects the vertical family line too, the grandparents and great grandparents.  This week I have been sent…

As the two biggest network of organizations promoting and protecting the rights of women and children, we have observed with grave concern that the safety and wellbeing of women and…

If you watched the Victoria Derbyshire show yesterday you would be forgiven for thinking that we were back to the turn of the century in the UK on the topic…

Jed remembers that he took flowers to his mother and she didn't say thank you. He remembers that he felt very hurt and told his dad. His dad told him…

Life.  One thing I know about it is that it doesn’t stay the same.  Everything changes and being able to recognise that is one of the key resilience skills for…

Life isn't easy at times and one thing I have come to know is that things change and life bowls all sorts of balls at us in an effort to…

Wilderness is a play about the impact on children of family separation, it runs until April 27th at the Hampstead Theatre in London - try to see it if you…

I work with families affected by the infantile defence of psychological splitting, this is the core wound experienced in parental alienation. As I continue on my journey, I understand that…

It is a decade since I worked with Thomas Moore to assist in reuniting him with his son after many years apart.  You can read about his journey and our…

I have been working for some time now on a new therapeutic approach with families affected by parental alienation which has its roots in trans-generational family therapy as developed by…

Wordpress congratulated me today on a decade of blogging.  I knew it was around this time I sat down to write my first blog on the subject of parental alienation,…

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be…

 PARENTAL ALIENATION STUDY GROUP THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — September 12–14, 2019  Mark your calendars for September 12–14, 2019. Preparations are underway for PASG2019, the third annual conference of…

I carry with me a piece of advice given to me at school by my history teacher. It is one of my most treasured possessions -  the exhortation to ‘question…

Once upon a time there was a little girl, her daddy called her his little princess.  Daddy took his little princess everywhere with him, he was so proud of his…

One of the biggest problems which we face when working with parental alienation is the lack of understanding in professionals around the family of the need for the rebuilding of…

A conflict, by definition, must involve two or more sides (unless it is within you). Therefore if parental alienation is about high conflict divorce it  must mean that both of you…

As I continue with my research alongside my therapeutic work with families, I am building a new approach to working with families affected by parental alienation which combines trans-generational psychotherapy…

''That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet." William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet The term parental alienation is increasingly coming to public consciousness,…

Leading the Way in Romania The interdisciplinary approach of litigation with minor in cases of Parental Alienation Conference -16-17 of May 2019 - Bucharest, Romania. Bucharest Tribunal together with an…

Wilderness is a play about parental alienation written by Kellie Smith whose experience in writing for performance is extensive and impressive.  Next month in London, the Hampstead Theatre in London will…

Resolving cases of parental alienation requires the interlocking interventions of the family court and mental health. Those of us who do this work know that this is a given and…

There are some extraordinarily difficult relational scenarios within the overall group of families which are affected by parental alienation, one of the most difficult being the ‘non alienating’ alienating parent.…

We are convening our 2019 Training and Development Group for professionals in the helping therapies who would like to develop their practice in the field of parental alienation. This is…

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the…

This week I am continuing work on the formation of therapeutic approaches to working with families affected by parental alienation, an ongoing project of mine which examines three things -…

One of the most difficult people  to understand in the alienation drama is the triangulating alienated child.  This child is one I have come to know as the proxy alienator,…

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders,…

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is…

As an alienated parent you are in a vulnerable place psychologically.  Alienation forces you to maladapt your behaviours just as your child has been forced to. It also puts you…

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And…

It is the last day of the working year for the Family Separation Clinic and as I begin to put the files away and seal the notebooks up, at the…