Dr. Silvia Casabianca has been training parents for over 30 years!
HeartMinded Parenting Training
For counselors and parents who want to raise compassionate, confident children
After three decades of work with families, I’ve developed a comprehensive approach to parenting that integrates neuroscience, attachment theory, inductive discipline, trauma-informed care, and transformative learning. This parenting modality isn’t about techniques to force the child into compliance and change of behavior—it’s about understanding what needs are expressed through behavior, how children’s brains develop cognitive empathy and how we can nurture that capacity from the beginning.
What we explore:
- How to apply brain science to boost cognitive empathy and compassion in children (and the other members of the family)
- How inductive discipline builds moral reasoning (instead of just compliance) so that children’s behavior is not molded by fear but by the do-no-harm principle
- Encouraging cooperation over competition
- Fostering family member’s self-compassion and active listening
- Mindfulness for parents and children to effectively modulate their fight-or-flight responses.
The curriculum is student-centered and flexible. It adapts to the learning needs of either the families or the counselors in training (12 CEUs – Cebroker 50-625)
Interactive. Practical. Grounded in research and decades of clinical experience.
Interested?
Call (239) 948-9444 or email mail@silviacasabianca.com
Let’s talk about what your training needs and how this course can help.
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 discipline, 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
Mental health counselors, 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.
If you are working toward families with more connection and less fear, this course was built for you.
→ Contact us to schedule your cohort or request course details.