Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Foundation
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Education
    • PCTCAA
    • Levels and Interventions
    • Alienating Tactics
    • Cognitive Distortions
    • Videos
    • PCTCAA vs Estrangement
    • Parental Child Abduction
    • Intergenerational Trauma
    • Academic Articles
    • Shared Parenting
    • Parental Alienation
  • Get Involved
  • Help For You
    • Young People
    • Parents
    • Grandparents
    • Schools
  • More
    • FAQs
    • Parental Alienation Day
    • Submissions
    • Petition
    • Media
    • EMMM Newsletter
    • Resources
    • Financials
    • Finger Painting Day
  • More
    • Home
    • About Us
    • Education
      • PCTCAA
      • Levels and Interventions
      • Alienating Tactics
      • Cognitive Distortions
      • Videos
      • PCTCAA vs Estrangement
      • Parental Child Abduction
      • Intergenerational Trauma
      • Academic Articles
      • Shared Parenting
      • Parental Alienation
    • Get Involved
    • Help For You
      • Young People
      • Parents
      • Grandparents
      • Schools
    • More
      • FAQs
      • Parental Alienation Day
      • Submissions
      • Petition
      • Media
      • EMMM Newsletter
      • Resources
      • Financials
      • Finger Painting Day
  • Sign In

  • My Account
  • Signed in as:

  • filler@godaddy.com


  • My Account
  • Sign out

Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Foundation

Signed in as:

filler@godaddy.com

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Education
    • PCTCAA
    • Levels and Interventions
    • Alienating Tactics
    • Cognitive Distortions
    • Videos
    • PCTCAA vs Estrangement
    • Parental Child Abduction
    • Intergenerational Trauma
    • Academic Articles
    • Shared Parenting
    • Parental Alienation
  • Get Involved
  • Help For You
    • Young People
    • Parents
    • Grandparents
    • Schools
  • More
    • FAQs
    • Parental Alienation Day
    • Submissions
    • Petition
    • Media
    • EMMM Newsletter
    • Resources
    • Financials
    • Finger Painting Day

Account


  • My Account
  • Sign out


  • Sign In
  • My Account

About EMMM

At the Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Foundation, we work to identify and disrupt coercive control when it operates within families, especially when children are psychologically manipulated to fear, hate, or reject a safe parent in the absence of any bona fide abuse, neglect, or threat.

This form of relational abuse is often overlooked, hidden beneath claims of protection or preference, but its impact is profound: ruptured attachment bonds, identity distortion, emotional and behavioural conditioning, long-term developmental disruption, and a constellation of complex psychological and relational impacts that often go unseen.

Vision

A future where every child is free from abuse, coercion, manipulation, and emotional harm, and can safely maintain loving relationships with both parents and extended family. We champion safe co-parenting and family connections, uphold each child’s autonomy and right to participate in decisions affecting their lives, and oppose practices that divide families without evidence-based intervention. We strive for communities and systems that recognise and respond effectively to hidden harms, protecting every child’s identity, wellbeing, autonomy, and right to belong.


Our vision includes:

  • Children living free from coercion and emotional harm
  • Advocacy for safe, evidence-informed co-parenting
  • Upholding children’s autonomy and participation
  • Opposition to family separation without appropriate intervention
  • Recognition of coercive control as a serious form of child abuse
     

Mission

Our mission is to reduce the impact of coercive control and psychological manipulation within families, especially when children are influenced against a safe parent or extended family. We build awareness, develop prevention strategies, and provide trauma informed resources to protect children’s psychological safety, promote healing, restore vital family bonds, and uphold each child’s autonomy and voice in decisions that affect them.


We achieve this by:

  • Educating communities and professionals about abuse, including coercive control
  • Providing tools to identify and interrupt harmful family dynamics early
  • Advocating for trauma-informed reforms in legal, mental health, and social systems
  • Supporting families with inclusive, culturally sensitive resources that respect children’s perspectives and choices
     

Guiding Values

Our work centres on protecting children’s safety, wellbeing, and autonomy. We address coercive control and abuse with honesty and courage, while offering empathy and respect to families and professionals. Through collaboration with lived experience advocates and experts, we deliver inclusive, trauma-informed psychoeducation and support that honours diversity, upholds professional integrity, and empowers children to participate in authentic decisions about their lives.


Our core values:

  • Child-focused protection from all forms of harm
  • Respect for children’s autonomy and participation
  • Courage to confront coercive control
  • Empathy, respect, and cultural sensitivity
  • Partnership with lived experience and experts
  • Gender-inclusive, trauma-informed, evidence-based practice
  • Accountability and professionalism
     

Our Board

Ms Amanda Sillars BPsycSc DipAcc

(CEO and Founding Director)


Amanda Sillars is the founding director of the Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Foundation, drawing on profound personal experience as both a child and a parent affected by parental child abduction and coercive family dynamics. After years of separation, Amanda has successfully reunified with both of her children, and has stuck around the bring about change.

Since 2014, Amanda has committed herself to supporting families impacted by coercive control and harmful family dynamics, helping parents and children navigate the complex path toward healing and reconnection. She delivers workshops, creates resources, and provides evidence-informed guidance rooted in empathy and critical understanding.

Through EMMM, Amanda collaborates with the UTAS, promoting research that explores the dynamics and consequences of coercive control and alienation. Holding a Bachelor of Psychological Science from Griffith University, she applies trauma, attachment, and family systems informed principles to her advocacy, education, and systemic reform work.

Dr Mandy Matthewson PhD, BA (hons)

(Director)


Dr Mandy Matthewson is a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). Dr Matthewson is the lead researcher in the Family and Interpersonal Relationship Research Lab at UTAS and she is a senior clinical psychologist in private practice. Her work focuses on the fields of family relationships, family violence and alienation. She is co-author of the highly acclaimed book Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation: A Guide to Assessment and Intervention. She has also published extensively on the topic of parental alienating behaviours, and the devastating harm they cause, in well respected peer review journals. She was past Chair of the Parental Alienation Study Group Research Committee and is editor-in-chief or Parental Alienation International. 

Ms Fiona Blane

(Director)

Fiona Blane has supported women impacted by domestic and family violence for many years, facilitating peer support groups for those navigating the complex challenges that often follow separation. Through this work, she witnessed a recurring and distressing pattern: many parents faced unjustified rejection or loss of contact with their children after leaving abusive relationships.

Today, Fiona assists with co-facilitating gender-inclusive support groups in Sydney and online for parents who have been psychologically or relationally cut off from their children. Her focus is on helping parents cope with the emotional toll of these experiences, strengthen their communication strategies, and prepare for safe, meaningful reconnection where possible.

Dr Kristine Estensen

Dr Kristine Estensen B.Sc MB.BS (Hons) GDipNut/Diet (Dist) FCICM Cert Lead (ALP)

(Director)

  

Dr Kristine Estensen is a senior Intensive Care Specialist with a strong background in clinical medicine, research, and multidisciplinary healthcare. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology from the University of Queensland and completed postgraduate studies in Nutrition and Dietetics at QUT. She practised as a clinical dietitian before earning her medical degree with honours from UQ.

Kristine has worked across both public and private health sectors and has led and contributed to research projects as a principal and sub-investigator. She holds a Fellowship with the Australian and New Zealand College of Intensive Care Medicine, and has undertaken specialty training in psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, and lung transplant medicine. She also serves as an examiner for the University of Queensland Medical School and is completing a second Fellowship with the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

With lived experience as a mother who has been unjustifiably separated from her child, Kristine is committed to systemic change. She advocates for greater awareness, robust research, and legislative reform in family law and domestic violence—particularly in relation to post-separation coercive control. Her work aims to support and protect the rights and relationships of children and safe parents affected by these under-recognised forms of harm. 

Our SUPPORTERS

Would you like to support EMMM, and see your business listed

Subscribe

Sign up to hear from us in our newsletter, current research, academic articles, tips and more.

Copyright © 2025 Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Foundation - All Rights Reserved.

  • Home
  • Get Involved

Please Sign Our Petition

Parental Alienating Behaviours

are Child Abuse & Family Violence. 

This serious form of abuse and family violence can no longer be ignored.  Parental alienating behaviours must be acknowledged in Australia as it is in other parts of the world. We need legislation that  not only acknowledges its existence but firmly and clearly legislates against it. 

Sign Here

This website uses cookies.

We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.

DeclineAccept