"Families Stuck in the Past: Moving Them Forward Into a Future Focused Reunification Process "

Families Stuck in the Past: Moving Them Forward Into a Future Focused Reunification Process
Individuals and families going through a reunification process often find themselves stuck in the scenarios and memories of past trauma, or in the sadness of their current situation. Many times, the therapeutic process focus more on exploring the negative interactions between family members, rather than focusing on how to help the family move forward into more positive experiences. When is it helpful in the reunification process to understand past events and explore current family behaviors, and when is it more beneficial to help them refocus on their future together? This presentation will offer the kind of common scenarios experienced by alienated parents and families going through reunification, and discuss strategies for moving beyond limiting mindsets. We will explore the neuroscience behind positive and negative emotions, and the importance of incorporating gratitude and appreciation into the healing process. In addition this presentation will offer suggestions for how to help our clients remain future focused in their personal lives, and in our own clinical practice with families.

Lisa Rothfus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked with families and children in private practice for over 35 years
She earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from Simmons School of Social Work in Boston, Massachusetts
Interned at two Harvard teaching hospitals
Post master's training in Structural Family Therapy at Cambridge Family Institute in Boston,Massachusetts
Specializes in counseling families transitioning through all stages of divorce and high conflict family situations
Assesses and treats families affected by Parental Alienation, and offers mild, moderate, and severe Reunification Therapy
Appointed by the courts in numerous Texas counties to assess and provide counseling for families experiencing alienation or estrangement issues
Worked as a Guardian Ad Litem, Mediator, and Parent Facilitator/Coordinator in the Texas Courts
Appointed as a Reunification Therapist for families out of states if a child resides in Texas
Offers a 4-day Intensive Reunification Program out of Austin, Texas for severely alienated parents who have been awarded custody by the court of their alienated child. This program requires a “no Contact order”, and is a combination of structural family therapy, psychoeducational information, experiential therapy, and includes an extensive aftercare protocol for the alienating parent.
• www.LisaRothfus.com
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• 4131 Spicewood Springs Rd - D-3 Austin, TX 78759
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[@bottegin]

How I wish I had someone with such insight in my area.

[@lauraslevoaca3062]

How are we going to even hope we are going to get a qualified Reunification Therapy in Germany when the so called “professionals” have barely heard about PA? And even who heard about PA is in denial of it and only worsened the situation!
PASG, you have done a great work!

[@FamiliesDividedTV]

This is not PASG. This is Family Access-Fighting for Children's Rights and Families Divided TV. My thoughts are that perhaps you get as many of these videos out to the professionals there in hopes they will begin to understand the abuse of alienation.

[@adobemastr]

The quality and content of this particular video is excellent. First, the presenter is wearing a lavalier microphone which makes her voice come across crystal clear and loud. Second, it appears she is reading off of a teleprompter, which means she is not stumbling over her words, losing focus on her content, saying a lot of distracting "uh's" or "ah's," etc. Third, the lighting is great, and her graphics are excellent. And of course, the subject matter, that of successfully reuniting with one's alienated children, is simply fantastic, and what so many of us alienated parents, who have no contact with our children, desperately need to hear about. Thank you! You really did a great job on this video.

[@FamiliesDividedTV]

Lisa's hiusband does these recordings. He does a great job. I am glad the video was helpful as well. Please share with others.

[@adobemastr]

@@FamiliesDividedTV Thanks for the info. I watch many of "FamiliesDividedTV" and many of the speakers fail to use external (like what Lisa is using) microphones which results in poor audio, distracting from the great content the channel provides. I would highly encourage "FamiliesDividedTV" to share with all your presenters the necessity of improving their audio by using these inexpensive lavalier microphones or even earbuds (or other types of microphones) to help improve their presentation. Your content is so valuable and it would be a shame to have people not watch them because of the poor audio content (which happens more frequently than one might imagine). But I want to thank you for your great efforts at getting these speakers to come on the program. They are very helpful.

[@FamiliesDividedTV]

@@adobemastr Thank you for your comments.