Just like all psychotherapists, what I do is inspired by my own life. It is therefore no accident that I work with children who experience the divorce and separation of their parents. My earliest memories are of my young cousin, traumatised from the divorce of his parents, having to be peeled away from his father to return back to this mother’s home. I can still hear the screaming pain of this little boy, who was too old to have the relief of unconsciousness of what was happening to him and too young to be able to articulate his feelings in words. What I knew then and what I know now, is that divorce and separation is a devastating wasteland of the emotional and psychological life of the child.
For decades we have not been allowed to say that divorce and separation harm children, because to do so has been…
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