What If the Most Powerful Thing You Could Do for Your Client Happened Outside the Session?
By Silvia Casabianca
Most therapeutic approaches keep parents on the periphery — a brief consultation, some guidance after the hour. And yet parents are often as lost and frustrated as the child sitting across from you. When that frustration has deepened into blocked care, leaving them outside the room is a missed opportunity.
HeartMinded Parenting might have answers for that
We offer a six-week online course — approved for 12 CEUs by CE Broker (50-625) — that brings you a coherent, research-grounded framework for drawing parents into the therapeutic process as active participants. Not as problems to manage. As partners in change.
What You Will Gain
Grounded in family systems theory, Adlerian psychology, Martin Hoffman’s inductive disciplin
e, Paul Gilbert’s CFT model of emotional regulation, and Lawrence Kohlberg’s model of moral development, HeartMinded Parenting gives you the clinical language and practical tools to help families move from fear-driven responses toward genuine connection.
You will understand why power assertion and love withdrawal fail to produce the lasting behavioral change your want to see. You will learn to recognize “blocked care” in parents and know how to address it with the same warmth you bring to their children. And you will leave with a parenting framework focused on inducing the development of cognitive empathy and moral reasoning in children — outcomes that show ripple effects on the family and the society at large.
How It Works – FORMAT
Six weekly or bi-weekly two-hour sessions, delivered online, scheduled at your convenience. Maximum six participants per cohort — because genuine dialogue requires space, not a webinar. Participants engage in the same reflective process they will facilitate with families: guided journaling, personal reflection, and individualized written feedback.
Who This Is For
We offer training to families, parent educators, mental health counselors and counseling grad students, family therapists, and clinical social workers who believe that inviting a parent in — and treating them with the same regard we hope they will extend to their child — is itself a therapeutic act.
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