Dr. Alyse Price-Tobler
SPEAKER PROFILE
Dr. Alyse Price-Tobler
PACFA-registered clinical psychotherapist, specialist trauma clinician, researcher, clinical supervisor, author, international speaker, and co-founder of the Nothing About Us, Without Us survivor conference initiative.
Dr. Alyse Price-Tobler, PhD, MCAP
Clinical Psychotherapist | Specialist Trauma Clinician | Researcher | Clinical Supervisor | Author | International Speaker
CLINICAL RESEARCH AND SURVIVOR-INFORMED PRACTICE
A Clinical Bridge for Adult Survivor Recovery
Dr. Alyse Price-Tobler is a PACFA-registered clinical psychotherapist, specialist trauma clinician, researcher, clinical supervisor, author, and international speaker whose work sits at the intersection of complex trauma, child psychological abuse, coercive family systems, adult survivor recovery, psychological safety, and survivor-informed clinical practice.
With more than 30 years of experience across mental health, disability, forensic, community, crisis, emergency response, and trauma settings, Dr. Price-Tobler brings a rare combination of higher degree research, specialist clinical practice, frontline service, lived experience, supervision, and authorship to her speaking, training, and clinical education work.
Her doctoral twin study research at the University of the Sunshine Coast examined adult survivors of child psychological abuse in the context of severe “parental alienation” and abduction and the mental health practitioners who work with them. This twin research foundation informed the Healing Qualia Treatment Protocol.
SPECIALIST FOCUS
Where Clinical Practice, Research, and Complex Trauma Meet
Specialist Clinical Scope
Dr. Price-Tobler works clinically with adult survivors, adolescents, targeted parents, families, couples, first responders, NDIS participants, people living with severe and persistent mental illness, and clients affected by grief, estrangement, reunification disruption, coercive family systems, and identity repair.
Healing Qualia Treatment Protocol
Healing Qualia is a specialist, phase-based clinical treatment protocol born from survivor experience, international practitioner knowledge, doctoral research, lived experience, clinical supervision, and frontline trauma practice.
Frontline, Community, and Crisis Care
Her background includes critical incident counselling, EAP support, NSW Government Redress Scheme work, and 15 years of active service with the NSW State Emergency Service, shaping a grounded approach to trauma, recovery, community care, and psychological safety.
CLINICAL PRACTICE AND COMMUNITY RESPONSE
A Broad Clinical Lens for People Often Left Unsupported
Dr. Price-Tobler is the founder and director of a well-established Counselling and Retreat Centre in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where she leads a multidisciplinary clinical practice and provides trauma-informed psychotherapy, consultation, clinical supervision, and specialist support for complex client presentations.
Her Master of Clinical Psychotherapy research examined the experiences of women living with primary homelessness on the streets of Sydney while also navigating diagnosed mental illness, severe psychosocial stress, service exclusion, stigma, and complex barriers to safety, dignity, connection, and care. This research contributed to the development of her SEMPI Social Communication Model, a free, grassroots, pay-it-forward model designed to support community members, first responders, frontline workers, and everyday people after someone says, “Are you OK?” and they say, “No.”
She also works with survivors of institutional and systemic harm, including people affected by foster care, juvenile justice, cultic environments, and other high-control relational systems.
AUTHORSHIP AND RESEARCH
A Three-Volume Clinical and Research Pathway
Dr. Price-Tobler’s authorship brings together doctoral research, survivor testimony, international practitioner insight, lived experience, clinical supervision, and frontline trauma practice to address one of the most under-recognized areas in complex trauma care: the long-term impact of child psychological abuse in the context of “parental alienation,” familial abduction, estrangement, coercive control, and relational trauma.
Across the three volumes, Dr. Price-Tobler develops a clinical and research pathway that moves from survivor experience, to international practitioner insight, to specialist treatment development.
VOLUME ONE
Disrupting the Intergenerational Trauma Cycle of High Conflict Divorce
Volume One begins with the voices and experiences of adult-child survivors of severe child psychological abuse related to “parental alienation” and high-conflict family systems. It explores what happens when a child’s developing identity, attachment system, memory, relational safety, and capacity to trust their own perceptions are shaped inside fear, loyalty pressure, coercion, concealment, distortion, or relational control.
At its heart, this volume is a survivor-informed call for recognition, safer language, targeted clinical education, and evidence-informed treatment pathways for adult survivors.
VOLUME TWO
Navigating the Maze During Treatment of Adult Survivors
Volume Two turns toward mental health practitioners who work with adult survivors of child psychological abuse related to “parental alienation,” familial rupture, estrangement, abduction, and complex relational trauma. It explores language, assessment, risk, treatment pacing, therapeutic alliance, family-system pressure, and the emotional burden of working in a contested clinical field.
This volume supports clinicians in slowing down, formulating carefully, protecting the therapeutic alliance, and avoiding rushed relational outcomes before the survivor is clinically ready.
VOLUME THREE
Healing Qualia Treatment Protocol
The forthcoming Healing Qualia Treatment Protocol is Dr. Price-Tobler’s specialist phase-based clinical framework for adult survivors of child psychological abuse related to “parental alienation,” familial abduction, estrangement, coercive control, and complex intergenerational relational trauma.
Healing Qualia centers clinical safety, informed consent, survivor agency, nervous-system pacing, relational discernment, and the adult survivor’s right to make contact decisions from clarity rather than coercion.
Available July 25, 2026.
To order copies of Dr. Price-Tobler’s book series, visit Inspiring Bookshop.
SURVIVOR-LED CONFERENCE WORK
Co-Founder of the NAUWOU™ Survivor Conference Initiative
Dr. Price-Tobler co-founded the Nothing About Us, Without Us survivor conference initiative with Dawn McCarty to address the longstanding absence of adult survivor voices in professional, legal, research, and clinical conversations.
Through Thrivers Speak® Events and NAUWOU™ Conferences, this work brings survivor testimony, specialist clinical knowledge, research translation, and professional education into shared public spaces.
COLLABORATIVE AUTHORSHIP
Survivor-Led and Professional Publishing Contributions
Alongside her three-volume clinical and research pathway, Dr. Price-Tobler contributes to collaborative works that bring survivor testimony, clinical insight, family-system education, and professional reform conversations into public view.
Warning! Children Are Not Weapons!
Collaborative survivor-author anthology addressing child psychological abuse related to “parental alienation,” family alienation, and abduction.
Building Bridges of Hope: Overcoming Trauma in Family Law Cases
A collaborative volume on trauma, family law, parental alienation, child psychological abuse, and systemic reform.
Building Bridges of Hope: Strengthening Co-Parenting and Family Bonds
A collaborative volume on co-parenting, family bonds, children’s wellbeing, parent-child repair, and trauma-informed family support.
SPEAKING AND COLLABORATION
Invite Dr. Price-Tobler into Professional Conversations
Dr. Price-Tobler’s speaking topics include child psychological abuse, adult survivor recovery, familial abduction, specialist clinical treatment, Healing Qualia, complex relational trauma, psychological safety, identity repair, practitioner education, community response, and ethical clinical work with highly misunderstood survivor presentations.
She may be invited independently or alongside Dawn McCarty as part of an optional applied-and-academic speaker pairing, where Dawn addresses criminology, cyber-informed threat patterns, and survivor evidence while Dr. Price-Tobler addresses doctoral research, clinical formulation, and treatment protocol development.
