Exploring "Framed: Women in the Family Court Underworld" with Dr. Christine Cocchiola + Amy Polacko

In this episode, our host Manya Wakefield sits down with Dr. Christine Cocchiola and Amy Polacko, co-authors of the newly released book “FRAMED: Women In The Family Court Underworld”.

Dr. Cocchiola and Amy Polacko bring a wealth of experience and insight into the challenges women face in family court, especially when dealing with coercive control and domestic abuse. Dr. Cocchiola, a trauma-trained therapist and educator, and Amy Polacko, an award-winning journalist and divorce coach, discuss their groundbreaking work and the critical need for systemic reform. Together, they offer practical strategies for women navigating the legal system and reclaiming their power.

RESOURCES

- Purchase “FRAMED: Women In The Family Court Underworld” https://amzn.to/3zOm6QT

- Visit Dr. Christine Cocchiola’s website: https://bit.ly/3XHz4rI

- Visit Amy Polacko’s website: https://bit.ly/3Y4aVwT

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ABOUT MANYA WAKEFIELD

Manya Wakefield, is a narcissistic abuse recovery coach, coercive trauma specialist, and the founder of Narcissistic Abuse Rehab — a global social impact platform she launched in 2019 to support survivors of narcissistic abuse, coercive control, and domestic abuse through evidence-based recovery frameworks.

Manya is the developer of the Coercive Trauma Recovery Method™ — a structured recovery framework addressing the neurological, perceptual, and identity-level dimensions of coercive trauma — and TENEL™ (Traumatic Exposure to Narcissism in Early Life), a specialist framework for Adult Children of Narcissists. Both frameworks have been reviewed by Dr. Michael Kinsey, PhD, clinical psychologist, New School for Social Research.

She is the author of Are You In An Emotionally Abusive Relationship (2019), a resource used in domestic violence recovery groups worldwide, and the host of the Narcissistic Abuse Rehab Podcast — available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.

Her original research contributions include the Global Coercive Control Legislation Index (2020) and the Global Femicide Legislation Index (2026) — the first systematic indexes of their kind on the web, cited in peer-reviewed publications including the Southern Illinois University Law Journal, Palgrave Macmillan, and the University of Agder, and used by advocates, legal professionals, and policymakers internationally.

Manya's expertise has been featured in Newsweek, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Parade, and HuffPost. She specializes in working with survivors whose presentations have been most resistant to standard approaches — and has documented consistent outcomes across many years of direct practice.

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