Coffey Containment Method™ · NJ & NY
The Coffey Containment Method™
Protecting you from your next mistake — because it could cost you everything.
Specialized clinical containment for individuals in high-conflict legal situations — and the attorneys who represent them.
For individuals
You are in the middle of something hard.
A divorce. A custody battle. A legal proceeding that started because someone in your life decided to make it complicated. And every single day, something happens that makes you want to react. An email arrives that makes your blood boil. A visit gets canceled with no explanation. Documentation shows up designed to destabilize you. And in that moment — you want to do something. Say something. Send something.
That moment is exactly when you need Elisabeth Coffey. Not because your feelings are wrong. They aren’t. But in a legal situation, your reaction is evidence. Your email is a document. Your voicemail is an exhibit. Your midnight text is a data point in someone else’s narrative about who you are. One uncontained moment can undo months of careful legal strategy.
The Coffey Containment Method™ stands between you and that moment. Elisabeth receives you where you are, holds the emotional weight professionally, and helps you distinguish between what you are feeling and what you should do. She works alongside your attorney so that what you share with her becomes organized, clinically informed communication — not evidence against you.
She is not a general therapist. She is the specific clinician this situation requires.
For attorneys
Your client called you again last night.
Crying. Or furious. Or both. Somewhere inside that 45-minute call was a piece of legally relevant information you actually needed — but you spent most of the time managing an emotional crisis you weren’t trained for and don’t have time for. There is a better architecture for this.
Elisabeth Coffey receives your emotionally activated client, provides specialized clinical containment, extracts what is legally relevant in what they’ve communicated, and returns that information to you — clearly, professionally, in language you can use. Your client feels heard. You receive clean, organized clinical communication. The case stays protected. The cost to your practice: nothing. Elisabeth’s fee is paid directly by the client.
Full attorney partnership page →How it works
How the Coffey Containment Method™ works.
- 01
Something happens that destabilizes the client — a provocation, a filing, a communication from the opposing party.
- 02
The client contacts Elisabeth instead of reacting directly.
- 03
Elisabeth receives the client, holds the emotional weight, and creates safety.
- 04
Together they distinguish between what the client is feeling and what they should do.
- 05
Elisabeth identifies anything legally relevant and communicates it to the attorney clearly, in writing.
- 06
The client returns to their situation stabilized — without a trail of damage behind them.
Coercive control · DARVO · reactive abuse
Understanding what is being done to you.
Many high-conflict situations involve deliberate and strategic provocation. The opposing party knows that if they can destabilize you, you will react. And in a legal situation, your reaction becomes their ammunition. Elisabeth brings clinical fluency in coercive control dynamics, DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender), and reactive abuse — the pattern where someone is provoked into a reaction and then told their reaction is the abuse. Naming these patterns accurately is part of the protection.
Learn more about coercive control, DARVO, and reactive abuse →Reunification therapy for court-involved families →
Fee structure
Fee structure.
The Coffey Containment Method™ involves two defined service streams, both paid by the client:
- Stream 1 — Direct clinical sessions
- Standard session rate. Superbill provided for OON insurance reimbursement where applicable.
- Stream 2 — Attorney collaboration fee
- A separate defined fee for written summaries, clinical-to-legal translation communications, and attorney consultation. Disclosed and agreed upon at intake.
Note to attorneys: there is no cost to your practice. Your client pays both streams. What you receive is a stabilized client, clean clinical communication, and your time back.
For individuals
If you are in a high-conflict legal situation and you need to stop your next mistake before it happens — reach out now. All inquiries are confidential.
Book a confidential consultationFor attorneys
To inquire about clinical partnership or refer a client, use the attorney inquiry form.
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