Utrecht in-person workshop

Therapeutic parenting for alienated children
An in-person workshop for parents in the rejected position with Karen Woodall and Nick Woodall of the Family Separation Clinic

Saturday 5 July 2025
This seminar will be delivered between 10:00 and 16:00

Cost €105.00 per person
Includes lunch and refreshments

T&Cs: Please read our terms and conditions here

About this workshop

This workshop is suitable for all parents and wider family members, as well as those who work with parents who have experienced rejection by their children after divorce or separation.

This isn't just a workshop where you talk about the problem; it's a workshop that will start you on a path of helping and healing, no matter where your child is on the journey of alienation.

What you will take away

Attending this workshop will give you:

• deeper understanding of this attachment trauma
• reframed recognition of why and how it happened
• anchored belief to support self healing
• practical skills for grounding, connecting and guiding your children
• ability to reframe understanding of this attachment trauma for others
• a road map for your further development which identifies the ABC of this approach

Additionally, you will learn:

• where your child is on the journey
• what you need to do to recover from reactive splitting
• the basics of the 'right action at the right time protocol' which helps you to know what to do and when to do it, to help your child to come home.

The Family Separation Clinic

The Family Separation Clinic is a leading provider of successful interventions and support to families affected by a child's hyper alignment with one parent and rejection of the other. The work of the Clinic is recognised by the High Court in England and Wales and in the Netherlands, for provision of clinical services which heal this attachment trauma in children suffering from emotional and psychological abuse in divorce and separation. This successful work in Court is replicated in out of court interventions with families which are anchored in the relational trauma approach to understanding and healing family attachment trauma which has been developed by the Clinic. The Clinic has global reach in its work with families, utilising online group settings to channel knowledge and skills development to parents in the rejected position, through its Lighthouse Parent Network, which supports the development of therapeutic parenting skills.

The Clinic has been working in a collaborative partnership in the Netherlands since 2024, interlinking legal and clinical management of serious emotional and psychological abuse of children, which is anchored by its signature co-therapy model, in which the therapist and parent in the rejected position work together to provide a new framework for healing the alienated child.

As the Clinic continues this work, an opportunity arises for the delivery of the first in-person workshop for parents to be delivered since the Pandemic and we warmly welcome all to join us in Utrecht on 5 July 2024 where we will be delivering a full day workshop.


Karen Woodall and Nick Woodall

Karen and Nick Woodall are both psychotherapists who are known for their clinical work with families experiencing the alignment and rejection behaviour in divorce and separation. Their co-therapy model of intervention, in which the therapist works with a parent in the rejected position who is trained in therapeutic parenting skills, provides a unique opportunity for parents suffering from this family attachment trauma to be active in the healing of the harm suffered by their children. Their success in treating this problem is recognised by the High Court of England and Wales and their starting point, which is always the experience of the child, is recognised around the world for its developmental focus to helping and healing.

Karen and Nick bring a combination of psychodynamic, humanistic and experiential modalities to their work with parents in the rejected position and use a unique approach to weaving knowledge with skills development, helping you to begin the process of moving as close as possible to how your alienated child thinks and feels. Whilst you may arrive at the workshop feeling helpless, hopeless and rejected, you will leave with an empowered sense of the what, when and how to relate to your alienated child as a Lighthouse Parent. Put simply, you will understand and feel the power of your position as the child's best therapist and be able to utilise the skills which bring your child into your proximity so that you can re-ignite the attachment which is the healing channel your child so desperately needs.