May I ask how old you are? Who are the mental health workers? What are their credentials?

Are you a minor living with your mother and a social worker is trying to help you navigate that?

Or an adult who no longer lives with parents?

If you're an adult, nobody can force you to do anything. if you don't want a relationship with someone, you don't have to have one.

The research in psych suggests that some sort of middle ground is healthiest. Being enmeshed with abusive family members is obviously very harmful. But complete estrangement carries it's own burden and pain too. So I think that's why therapists try to help clients work toward a middle ground. That's what my therapist recommended though we did not always agree. I support each person's own individual choice. I was estranged from my abusive father when he died. I try the middle ground with my mother....sometimes I am more successful than others. It is really difficult.