PVD Psychological Associates

PVD psychological associates has helped me immensely. I think getting therapy is a rough process in its entirety, sometimes you hear things you don’t want to hear sometimes it’s a very much a roller coaster. But having someone like Dr. Issa has been a blessing. She is a gifted therapist who knows when to push and when to pull and when to guide and went to mentor. We don’t go to therapy to hear what we want to hear, we go to hear what we need to heal. This is an A+ Place.

As a mother seeking to reconnect with my alienated 21-year-old son (who has not spoken a single word to me in over four years), I mailed a polite, non-confrontational, and thoroughly research-based letter to PVD Psychological Associates. I included two leading clinical books on parental alienation, a QR code linking to peer-reviewed articles and academic lectures, and family photos showing the close bond my son and I shared throughout his childhood. That bond only shifted abruptly at age 17, right after I requested a divorce following an 18+ year marriage where I was a dedicated stay-at-home mother. This timeline aligns with the clinical literature on how one parent may weaponize a child to punish the other. Despite this, the psychologist presented my letter to my son directly in session without neutrality, context, or trauma-informed care. Soon after, he lashed out at his younger sisters in a car ride, shaming them for maintaining a relationship with me. Trapped in the vehicle, they endured an intense emotional attack with no way to escape or seek help. This handling reinforced division, enabled triangulation, and placed harmful pressure on the younger siblings. Families in high-conflict divorce deserve clinicians trained in family systems theory and the well-documented dynamics of parental alienation. In this case, the practice’s failure to uphold those standards caused real and lasting harm.