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# Renown Parental Alienation Expert in NYC: With more than 50 years of professional experience, Linda is considered one of the best family therapists in New York. She specializes in parent-child relational problems and has helped and protected thousands of children.

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## Posts
- [ProPublica Sued for Fraud by Linda Gottlieb, LMFT](https://lindagottlieb.com/propublica-sued-for-fraud-by-linda-gottlieb-lmft/): Linda Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW-R, and her treatment intervention, Turning Points for Families, P.C. (TPFF), have filed a Verified Complaint against ProPublica, Inc., reporter Hannah Dreyfus, and editor Michael Squires. The complaint asserts causes of action for fraudulent inducement, fraud, fraudulent concealment and continuing fraud, tortious interference with existing and prospective business relations, and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
- [Linda Gottlieb Sues ProPublica for Fraud](https://lindagottlieb.com/linda-gottlieb-sues-propublica-for-fraud/): Linda Gottlieb and Turning Points for Families v. ProPublica, Inc., Hannah Dreyfus, and Michael Squires
- [A Frivolous Complaint Orchestrated by Tina Swithin](https://lindagottlieb.com/tina-swithin-frivolous-complaint/): I am responding to a recent post about me by Tina Swithin of 'One Moms Battle'. She reports that I was providing testimony last week and got served with a complaint in the Courthouse. This is true; it was another frivolous complaint by a parent who had lost her case in Court.
- [Parental Alienation is in the DSM-5-TR](https://lindagottlieb.com/parental-alienation-dsm5/): Parental alienation is in The DSM-5-TR. It is in The DSM in the only way that matters - by descriptions of the dysfunctional family dynamics that occur in this family phenomenon.
- [Parental Alienation – Seeding an Antisocial Personality Disorder](https://lindagottlieb.com/parental-alienation-antisocial/): Alienating parents are modeling antisocial behaviors for their children.
- [Parental Alienation – Domestic Violence Upon the Child](https://lindagottlieb.com/parental-alienation-violence/): The Federal Government has led the way to pass long-overdue national legislation that appropriately labels family violence/domestic violence as criminal behavior. Domestic violence is not merely that of men abusing women.
- [Parental Alienation Syndrome – Profoundly Child Abusive](https://lindagottlieb.com/parental-alienation-syndrome/): Despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, exceedingly erroneous claims are made about Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and Parental Alienation (PA). It is fabricated that PAS is not a legitimate syndrome and PA is a contrived family phenomenon.
- [Danielle Pollack Abandons Alienated Mothers – Shame On Her](https://lindagottlieb.com/danielle-pollack-irresponsible/): Danielle Pollack, Policy Manager at the National Family Violence Law Center, indefatigably proffers herself as a protector of women. She perpetuates this myth on her websites and in her lobbying of legislators to pass laws renouncing parental alienation.
- [Danielle Pollack – Addicted to Lies About Parental Alienation](https://lindagottlieb.com/danielle-pollack-lies/): Danielle Pollack was at it again - obsessed with her meritless mission to deny the child- abusive family phenomenon of parental alienation. She put on a fallacious, self-serving spectacle during a NPR radio interview on February 6, 2025.
- [Danielle Pollack Harms and Exploits Children – Exposed!](https://lindagottlieb.com/danielle-pollack/): Danielle Pollack of The National Family Violence Law Center is a self-declared "expert" on family matters with a focus on child custody and family violence. To the contrary of being an expert, Pollack is not qualified to render credible opinions regarding these issues.
- [Response to “Parental Alienation Primer for Advocates”](https://lindagottlieb.com/lies-parental-alienation-primer/): The National Center to Advance Peace recently published a paper entitled, “Parental Alienation Primer for Advocates." The primer is a discreditable attack on the phenomenon of parental alienation and the reunification programs relied upon by the Courts for remedy.
- [Alienating Parents Cause Their Kids’ Psychosomatic Symptoms](https://lindagottlieb.com/alienating-parents-cause-their-kids-psychosomatic-symptoms/): The psychiatric and mental health communities have deemed alienating behaviors to be psychologically abusive to children. Child psychological abuse compromises alienated children's functioning in all domains - psychological, emotional, cognitive, interpersonal, and behavioral.
- [Alienating Parents Are Raising Antisocial Kids](https://lindagottlieb.com/alienating-parents-are-raising-antisocial-kids/): The psychiatric and mental health communities have deemed alienating behaviors to be profoundly abusive to children.
- [Alienating Parents Cause Their Children’s Psychiatric Symptoms](https://lindagottlieb.com/alienating-behaviors-harm-children/): Parental alienating behaviors are recognized in the psychiatric and scientific communities to be examples of "child abusive behaviors." Peer-reviewed research and clinical literature document the profound, lifetime harm to alienated children from alienating behaviors.
- [Swithin Sees Domestic Violence by Proxy in Parental Alienation](https://lindagottlieb.com/tina-swithin-domestic-violence-in-parental-alienation/): Tina Swithin of One Mom's Battle, in her video below, provides a clear and accurate description of the family dynamics occurring in parental alienation.
- [Dissecting Tina Swithin’s Lies About Reunification Camps](https://lindagottlieb.com/tina-swithins-lies-reunification-camps/): Tina Swithin of One Mom's Battle (OMB) has been on a 10-year crusade against alienation. One of Swithin's missions is to annihilate safe and effective reunification programs, such as Turning Points for Families (TPFF).
- [Tina Swithin’s Illusionary Attacks Upon Family Court Judges](https://lindagottlieb.com/tina-swithin-family-court-judges/): Tina Swithin of One Mom's Battle (OMB) is an unqualified, self-serving bad actor. She lacks credibility to offer opinions about Family Court Judges and the professionals whom the Courts rely upon to help and protect alienated children.
- [Legendary Parental Alienation Expert – Steven G. Miller, MD](https://lindagottlieb.com/steven-miller-parental-alienation/): Dr. Steven Miller was deeply concerned about the profound harm to children from parental alienation. He devoted the last 20+ years of his life as a crusader against it.
- [Parental Alienation – All You Need to Know](https://lindagottlieb.com/parental-alienation-revealed/): Parental alienation harms an estimated 250,000 children a year in the United States alone. Thousands more are harmed worldwide.
- [Judging Reunification Therapy – What Courts Need to Know](https://lindagottlieb.com/reunification-therapy-success/): Reunification therapy is a form of family therapy that is widely relied upon by Courts to remedy the child abuse that occurs in parental alienation cases.
- [Tina Swithin’s Behaviors Are Harmful to Alienated Children](https://lindagottlieb.com/tina-swithin-child-abusive-behaviors/): Tina Swithin of One Mom's Battle (OMB) posts articles and videos about parental alienation across her various social media accounts.
- [Tina Swithin’s Harmful Lies About Reunification Camps](https://lindagottlieb.com/swithins-lies-reunification-camps/): Tina Swithin of One Mom's Battle (OMB) spreads lies about reunification programs, such as Turning Points for Families (TPFF).
- [Will the Real Tina Swithin Please Stand Up – Experts Inquire](https://lindagottlieb.com/tina-swithin-harms-children/): In 2009, Tina Swithin, of One Mom's Battle (OMB), had an exceedingly contentious public custody battle. Swithin is to be commended for prioritizing her children's best interests during the protracted Court proceedings.
- [Harmful Lies Perpetuated by Tina Swithin of One Mom’s Battle](https://lindagottlieb.com/tina-swithin/): Tina Swithin founded the online organization, One Mom's Battle (OMB). OMB intentions are to defame our Family Court System, deny the phenomenon of parental alienation, and attack the professionals who dedicate their careers to protecting children. Swithin is motivated by money and popularity.
- [Successful Reunification Therapy for Parental Alienation](https://lindagottlieb.com/reunification-therapy-parental-alienation/): Traditional reunification therapy is an abysmal failure for treating severe cases of parental alienation. These failures show the need for my specialized 4-day, intensive reunification program, Turning Points for Families (TPFF), which is relied upon by Courts across the United States and Canada.
- [Turning Points for Families – Trauma Informed Therapy](https://lindagottlieb.com/reunification-camps-mischaracterized/): Turning Points for Families (TPFF) is a therapeutic vacation for families to heal the child psychological abuse, domestic violence of the child, and domestic violence of the child by proxy committed by the alienating parent.
- [Alienated Children Don’t Mean What They Say](https://lindagottlieb.com/alienated-children-what-they-say/): It is common practice to consider the feelings and wishes of minor children regarding major decisions affecting them. This is particularly applicable and important to situations in which their parents are separating or divorcing.
- [Determining Severity in Parental Alienation](https://lindagottlieb.com/parental-alienation-severity/): Parental alienation is an observable family dynamic in which one parent, known as the alienating parent, engages in coercive mind-control and manipulative tactics of the child to force the child to reject a normal relationship with the other parent, known as the alienated parent. These tactics are known as alienating behaviors.
- [Alienating Behaviors – Domestic Violence Upon the Child](https://lindagottlieb.com/alienating-behaviors-dv/): Alienated children suddenly and surprisingly manifest severe psychiatric symptoms that had not been manifested prior to the onset of the alienation. These symptoms weigh on children and encumber them.
- [Lies Perpetuated by the Alienating Parents’ Industry](https://lindagottlieb.com/lies-alienating-parents/): False information is being spread about parental alienation and Court-ordered reunification programs, such as Turning Points for Families (TPFF).
- [The Alienated Parent – Heartaches From Double Binds](https://lindagottlieb.com/alienated-parent-double-binds/): William Shakespeare is regarded as the preeminent dramatist of his time. Shakespeare’s body of literary works shed light on the trauma to a child and parent who are victims of parental alienation.
- [The Instinct for a Parent Violated in Parental Alienation](https://lindagottlieb.com/child-instinct-parental-alienation/): Whenever I am about to deliver a presentation on alienation, I yearn for a call from the organizers, I'm hoping to hear the following:
- [Counterintuitive Issues in Alienation: Attention Non-Specialists](https://lindagottlieb.com/counterintuitive-issues-in-alienation/): Parental alienation is routinely missed, misdiagnosed, and mismanaged by professionals who do not specialize in it. To the great detriment to children, non-specialists make findings in an alienation case that are not merely wrong, but are backwards.
- [Alienated Children Say the “Darndest” Things](https://lindagottlieb.com/what-alienated-children-say/): After treating alienated children for 3 decades, nothing I hear surprises me anymore.
- [Parental Alienating Behaviors Discussed by an Expert](https://lindagottlieb.com/parental-alienating-behaviors/): Alienating parents are on a continuum from mild to moderate to severe. By the time an alienation case gets to Court because it did not settle, the alienating parent is almost surely in the severe category.
- [Manifestations of Alienated Children – As Seen by an Expert](https://lindagottlieb.com/manifestations-alienated-children/): Child psychiatrist Richard Gardner’s 8 manifestations are accepted in the scientific community to identify an alienated child. The manifestations do not appear in non-alienated children of divorce nor in severely physically abused children and have been shown by research to have an exceedingly low error rate.
- [Parental Alienation: Truth Revealed by an Expert](https://lindagottlieb.com/parental-alienation-truth/): Parental alienation is an observable family dynamic in which one parent brainwashes a child to reject the other parent for no protective reason. This frequently occurs in high-conflict divorce and custody cases and is easily recognizable by mental health professionals who specialize in diagnosing it.
- [Kayden’s Law, Kyra’s Law, Piqui’s Law – Not a Child’s Best Interest](https://lindagottlieb.com/kaydens-law/): First, my colleagues and I who specialize in parental alienation support every measure to protect children from abusive parents, to keep children safe from harm, and to prosecute incidents of child abuse to the full extent of the child protection laws in all 50 states. We unequivocally support clinically sound revisions to our custody laws, as I discuss below.
- [Reunification Camp Misinformation Harms Children](https://lindagottlieb.com/reunification-camps/): Here you will learn about the child abuse that is going on and the truth about "reunification camps."

## Pages
- [Linda Sues ProPublica](https://lindagottlieb.com/frivolous-complaints/): I
- [LINDA SPEAKS](https://lindagottlieb.com/linda-speaks/)
- [Terms & Conditions](https://lindagottlieb.com/terms-conditions/): Introduction
- [CONTACT](https://lindagottlieb.com/contact/): NYLmft@gmail.com 347-454-8840
- [Turning Points For Families](https://lindagottlieb.com/turning-points-for-families/): Turning Points for Families (TPFF) is a Court Ordered child protection intervention from the child psychological abuse, domestic violence of the child, and domestic violence by proxy of the child by the alienating parent.
- [Parental Alienation Resources](https://lindagottlieb.com/parental-alienation-resources/): RESEARCH ARTICLES&CLINICAL LITERATURE
- [VIDEOS](https://lindagottlieb.com/videos/): Parental Alienation International Conference Interview
- [MEET LINDA](https://lindagottlieb.com/meet-linda/): Linda is an internationally Court recognized parental alienation expert. With more than 50 years of professional experience as a family therapist, Linda has helped and protected thousands of children. Linda was personally trained by child psychiatrist, Salvador Minuchin, the pre-eminent founder of the family therapy movement.
- [HOME](https://lindagottlieb.com/): "The TPFF program plays a critical role in treating families suffering from moderate to severe parental alienation.”
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## Media Hub
- [How Linda Discovered Parental Alienation](https://lindagottlieb.com/media/5739/)
- [Turning Points For Families – Full Details](https://lindagottlieb.com/media/turning-points-for-families-full-details/)
- [The Truth About Reunification Camps](https://lindagottlieb.com/media/the-truth-about-reunification-camps/)
- [Effects of Parental Alienation on Children](https://lindagottlieb.com/media/effects-of-parental-alienation-on-children/)
- [When the Alienator is Exposed!](https://lindagottlieb.com/media/when-the-alienator-is-exposed/)
- [A Ruling by the Courts of Parental Alienation](https://lindagottlieb.com/media/a-ruling-by-the-courts-of-parental-alienation/)
- [How a Parent Can So Easily Manipulate a Child](https://lindagottlieb.com/media/how-a-parent-can-so-easily-manipulate-a-child/)
- [What is Parental Alienation?](https://lindagottlieb.com/media/what-is-parental-alienation/)
- [Who is Linda Gottlieb?](https://lindagottlieb.com/media/who-is-linda-gottlieb-parental-alienation-fully-revealed/)