When Therapy Isn’t Enough for a Child of Coercive Control

You finally got the referral. The therapist had a Tuesday opening right after school, and for the first time in months you felt like you were doing something for your child instead of watching something happen to your child. You told yourself this would help. Maybe the one thing you could control when almost nothing …

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Four Traits of the Predatory Parent

There are moments in coercive control where nothing seems to make sense. If you have ever wondered why professionals sometimes get it wrong or why you may have doubted yourself along the way, I want to offer a framework that brings clarity. For more than forty years, across clinical practice, research, and my own lived …

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