Edel Lawlor: Why a Child's Therapy Should Wait Out the Court Case

Someone calls a child therapist and says: we have just come out of an abusive relationship, we are in court, please see my child. Edel Lawlor's answer is that she will meet with the parent, and she will not take the child. It is not a small thing to say to someone who is asking for help. She has reasons, and they come from twenty-five years of children telling her what happened to them afterwards. Edel Lawlor is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and play therapist based in Ireland, speci...