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Professionals — Psychology

Psychology & Parental Alienation

Child estrangement and parental alienation are serious psychological conditions affecting families navigating high-conflict separation and divorce. The Toby Center provides expert guidance and clinical services to help.

For Therapists & Psychologists

How We Work With Clinical Professionals

The Toby Center collaborates with licensed therapists and psychologists to provide an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to family transitions. Our clinical staff work within a framework guided by peer-reviewed research in family science, attachment theory, and trauma-informed care.

All licensed therapists affiliated with The Toby Center are restricted to their states where licensed and follow their state licensing policy. We maintain rigorous standards for clinical practice, documentation, and court reporting.

"Therapy and counseling help parents create an emotional roadmap for improved relationships between parents, and between parents and children."

Children experiencing parental separation often feel put in the middle — caught between each parent's wishes, feeling loyalty conflicts, and sometimes blaming themselves. Our clinical professionals help children understand that the absent parent did not abandon them.

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Clinical Services We Provide

Services for Families & Clinicians

Our clinical professionals deliver these evidence-based services across Florida, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

Therapy

Child Reunification Therapy

A specialized therapeutic intervention to help children estranged or alienated from an absent parent. Clinicians work to disengage obstructionist behaviors, address children's hesitation, and make court recommendations.

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Clinical Supervision

Therapeutic Supervised Visitation

Supervised visitation facilitated by a licensed therapist — most valuable when a therapist can provide empathy, redirection, and guidance for present and future parent-child interaction.

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Counseling

Individual & Family Therapy

Individual and family counseling helping parents and children navigate divorce and co-parenting challenges. Therapists serve as advisors helping create emotional roadmaps for improved relationships.

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Education

Co-Parenting Skills Education

Psychoeducational programs equipping parents with the tools needed to co-parent effectively after separation. Reduces conflict and improves outcomes for children.

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Mediation

Mediation & Parent Coordination

Forward-focused therapeutic strategies for high-conflict parents. Incorporates mediation goals with therapeutic conversation to help parents create a co-parenting road map.

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Training

Professional Training & Workshops

Workshops and training programs for family professionals — covering child observation, therapeutic visitation supervision, documentation standards, and parental alienation.

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Clinical Resource

Parental Alienation & Child Estrangement

The Toby Center is a leading resource on parental alienation and child estrangement — providing clinical guidance, research, and therapeutic interventions.

In the most extreme cases, parents exhibit hostile behavior — either overt or covert. They unconsciously or with forethought vilify the other parent in the eyes of the children. Courtroom battling and domestic conflict cause children to feel insecure.

When children show complete disregard or enmity for the absent parent, the necessity for psychological or forensic evaluation of the custodial parent should be requested by the Court or GAL. The child must also be evaluated by a specially trained psychotherapist who explores the reasons for the child's behaviors — not merely attends to the child's statements.

Parental Alienating Behaviors: An Unacknowledged Form of Family Violence

Harman, Kruk & Hines — American Psychological Association, Psychological Bulletin: 2018, Vol. 144, No. 12, 1275–1299

Social Science and Parenting Plans for Young Children

Warshak Research on Overnights in Parenting — attachment & parenting plan research

Introduction — Dr. Mark Roseman, CEO & Founder, The Toby Center

Clinical Insights

What Our Therapists Know

Children Need Both Parents

Research shows children whose parents have legal counsel and therapeutic support have the best outcomes when the focus remains on the child's best interest — not the parents' conflict.

Therapeutic Visitation Is Valuable

A therapist trained in the field is most valuable in supervised visitation because they provide empathy, redirection, and guidance — and provide helpful parenting skills in a kind and nuanced manner.

Neutrality Is Non-Negotiable

All Toby Center clinical professionals maintain strict neutrality. Our only alliance is with the best interests of the child — providing objective, court-ready documentation.

Professional Resources

Downloads & External Resources

Research papers, brochures, and professional resources for therapists and clinicians.

Brochure

Toby Center Services Brochure

Complete overview of all services — share with colleagues and clients. Available in English.

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Research

Warshak Research on Overnights in Parenting

Social Science and Parenting Plans for Young Children — attachment & overnight parenting research.

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Research

PA Top Ten — Contemporary Family Magazine

Spring 2022 issue on Parental Alienation — including PARQ psychological test findings and clinical research.

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External Resource

PASG — For Therapists

The Professional Association of Supervising Group — international organization for PA researchers & practitioners.

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Publication

Contemporary Family Magazine

Helpful timely news, events and research to improve child outcomes from around the world.

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Podcast

CF Digital on Spotify

A broadcast service of Preserving Family Ties Media, LLC addressing child custody, family law, and social science.

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Interested in Joining Our Clinical Network?

The Toby Center is always looking for experienced, licensed therapists and clinicians to join our network of independent contractors across Florida and New England.

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The Toby Center is Florida’s leading provider of court-ordered supervised visitation, child reunification therapy, and co-parenting education helping families heal and children thrive since 2010.