Reunification Therapy & Forensic Consultation in Northern Kentucky

“The way we deal with our family relationships shapes the way we approach the world.”
- Sigmund Freud 
 

Dr. Washam provides reunification therapy and psychoanalytically informed forensic consultation in psychologically complex, high-conflict family systems.

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These matters frequently involve parent-child estrangement, attachment disruption, chronic loyalty conflicts, post-divorce family fragmentation, personality pathology, developmental trauma, and prolonged litigation surrounding custody and parenting arrangements.

 

The work requires careful clinical neutrality, emotional structure, developmental sensitivity, and sustained attention to the psychological realities affecting both the child and the broader family system.

 

Dr. Washam’s approach integrates psychoanalytic theory, family systems understanding, developmental psychology, attachment theory, and extensive experience working within court-involved treatment contexts.

 

Areas of professional concentration include reunification therapy, parent-child estrangement, high-conflict custody dynamics, parental alienation dynamics, co-parenting consultation, family systems conflict, court-involved treatment, attorney consultation, developmental and attachment disruption, and emotionally polarized family systems.

 

The objective of reunification treatment is not merely behavioral compliance, but the restoration of healthier emotional contact, psychological stability, developmental protection, and more adaptive relational functioning within the family system whenever clinically possible.

 

Court-involved family work often requires a level of professional continuity beyond ordinary outpatient therapy. In appropriate cases, Dr. Washam provides careful between-session responsiveness, coordination with attorneys or other professionals when properly authorized, and sustained clinical attention to the developing family dynamics between appointments.

 

This level of care reflects the seriousness of the work. It does not create unlimited access or replace emergency services, but it does provide a more continuous and clinically responsible framework for complex family matters.