Karen Woodall

Karen Woodall is a highly respected psychotherapist with over twenty-five years experience in working with parents and children affected by family separation. She has worked extensively in both private and public law and regularly works in the High Court of England and Wales. Using established therapeutic theory and practice, Karen has developed new ways of working with alienated children and is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on children’s post separation rejecting behaviours and the phenomenon of the alienated child. She is also an author and her influential blog has a worldwide readership. She is currently studying for a PhD. Karen was previously the Director of the Centre for Separated Families, a national charity that works with the whole family in order to bring about better outcomes for children. She is the co-author of Understanding Parental Alienation: Learning to Cope, Helping to Heal (Charles C Thomas 2017) and The Guide for Separated Parents (Piatkus 2007) and with her colleague, Nick Woodall.