Alienation Industry and Reunification Therapy
In 2018, a husband in Maricopa County, Arizona, abandoned his wife and four children. He was gone for five years. During this time, the wife was dependent on her mother to pay the mortgage on the home.
The divorce was finalized on October 28, 2021, but an egregious error left the home out of the final decree. In April 2022, the mother was awarded the home, but signed it over to her mother who was financially supporting her daughter, and grandchildren.
In November 2022, the father asked for intense reunification to begin again. A minute entry was then submitted with an order by Judge Stasy Avelar in mid-December 2022 stating that the proceeds from the sale of the home should be used for the intense reunification therapy (tens of thousands of dollars) given the fact that the mother was financially unable to afford the treatment.
As a result, a new battle for the home began in civil court between the grandmother and the ex-husband. Judge Stasy Avelar is currently trying to bring the home back under the family court umbrella to pay for reunification therapy with Dr. John A. Moran, Ph.D. Judge Avelar has sent her ruling to the civil court judge, which will likely sway the impending ruling. Most recently, the grandmother was prohibited by the court from turning in her documentation for the civil suit.
According to his website, Dr. Moran is on the Board of Directors of Overcoming Barriers, Inc. (OCB) and has served as clinical director at OCB family camps. His website states, “ He has provided intensive family therapy interventions in multiple states.”
The children in this case are 19, 17, 16 and 13. They have already been subjected to numerous reunification therapies which have proven to be unsuccessful. The children have had a Court Appointed Advisor (Barbara Kiffmeyer), a Therapeutic Interventionist (Madison Rhodes), two court ordered Behavioral Interventionist (Joseph Guant and the infamous David Weinstock) and attempted a 3rd Court Ordered Behavioral Interventionist (Robert DiCarlo). The court has now ordered an Intense Reunification Therapy with Dr. John Moran and Judith Lewis-Thome.
Dr. Moran does not even reside in the state of Arizona and his assistant, Judith Lewis-Thome is not licensed in the United States. She uses the credentials Dipl.-Psych on court documents yet her license is from Germany. On Dr. Moran’s paperwork, she is listed as a “coach.”
On the intake paperwork provided by Dr. Moran, it states, “RISKS AND LIMITATIONS: Informed consent requires disclosure of potential risks and limitations. By signing the Agreement, the parents acknowledge the clinician/coach cannot guarantee physical safety during the IC or in any subsequent services provided. The parents further acknowledge the clinician cannot guarantee against bad faith or abuse of this process by any participant.”
This mother has an active order of protection in place, yet she is being asked to sign away her right to safety for herself and her children? The same document states that she cannot use anything against the therapists in court, without their consent. Isn’t that convenient?
The children are adamant that they do not want a relationship with their allegedly abusive father, who was absent for five years of their lives. No one is listening to the children because if they were to listen, the flow of money comes to an abrupt halt. Instead, they are listening to the father who is predictively, claiming “parental alienation.” Subsequently, the money stream is wide open and flowing.
These “professionals,“ are profiting off of conducting the same “treatments” over and over, despite the treatments failing repeatedly. These intensive reunification scams are not legitimate treatments and as a result, they are not covered by insurance. Reunification therapy treatments are not under the umbrella of any licensure and in fact, you don’t even need a license to conduct these barbaric, intensive reunification camps and programs. There is a reason why insurance companies do not pay for these programs - it is all based on the lucrative pseudoscience of “parental alienation.”
What has our world come to when a mother and grandmother may be forced to sell their home to pad the bank accounts of charlatans? This is the power of the “alienation industry.” This is criminal, and should cause waves of outrage throughout our country.
