Your Child Is Pulling Away. Do You Know Why — and What to Do Next?
A free guide for targeted parents — understand where your child is on the parental alienation continuum, and what actually works at that stage.
Something has shifted. Maybe it started gradually — a little more distance, a little more resistance. Maybe it happened fast. Either way, you can feel it. And you don’t know if what you’re doing is helping or making it worse.
Here’s what most parents — and many of the professionals working with them — don’t realize: parental alienation isn’t one thing. It exists on a continuum from mild to severe, and where your child is on that continuum right now determines everything about what you should do next.
The wrong approach at the wrong stage doesn’t just fail. It can push your child further away.
This free guide gives you the framework to identify where your child is — and the most effective intervention for that stage.
- What parental alienation actually is — and how it’s distinguished from realistic estrangement due to a parent’s bona fide abuse or neglect
- The three stages of the continuum: mild, moderate, and severe — and how to identify which stage your child is in
- The alienating behaviors and child symptoms that define each stage
- The most appropriate and effective intervention at each stage
- How to prevent progression before it goes further
- The critical question of whether your child is truly free to choose — or controlled by loyalty conflicts
- What you can do right now
Your Child Is Pulling Away. Do You Know Why — and What to Do Next?

Developed by Loretta Maase, LPC — author of Parenting the Alienated Child: Reconnecting With Lost Hearts and creator of the Healing Lost Hearts® program, with 25 years of clinical and forensic experience working with targeted parents and their children.
