“… parental alienation is generally recognized as being when a child rejects a parent and is seen to strongly align with the other parent in divorce and separation…”
Karen Woodall
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Parental alienation is a label which is popularly used to describe a dynamic where a child rejects a parent. Karen Woodall is a psychotherapist who treats this problem from a relational perspective recognising that children who reject a parent are usually those who are hyper aligned to a caregiver who is causing them harm. Thinking about the issue from the experience of the child, offers a clearer understanding of this much misunderstood problem in family separation.
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Karen Woodall
Karen Woodall is the lead therapist at the Family Separation Clinic and is a specialist in working with complex divorce and separation and its impact on children. She is a psychotherapist with more than twenty-five years experience in working with parents and children affected by family separation.
Karen is an internationally recognised specialist in children’s post separation rejecting behaviours.