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.
Next cohort starting on August 28, 2026 – 9-11 a.m. Please contact us for details! mail@silviacasabianca.com
If you want to know more, please contact us:
Dr. Silvia Casabianca, EdD, MA, LMHC
Physician, Psychotherapist, Educator, and Author
Dr. Silvia Casabianca has bridged the worlds of neuroscience, Western medicine, and a holistic understanding of mental health care. With over four decades of clinical experience, her work focuses on shifting human relational models from fear-based systems into deep connection and compassionate action.
Clinical Background & Expertise
Dr. Casabianca began her professional path in 1972 as a licensed medical doctor in Colombia. She dedicated more than 20 years to practicing community medicine and psychotherapy in both urban centers and isolated, remote villages. Along her professional career, she has found that empathy and compassion are our hope for a more connected and conscious society.
She has a Master’s in Art Psychotherapy from Concordia University in Canada and a Doctorate in Education (EdD) from Nova Southeastern University. She has practiced for 22 years as a psychotherapist in Naples and Bonita Springs, Florida, specializing in psychodynamic counseling, family systems, and neuroscience-informed parenting.
Vision Behind HeartMinded Parenting
Based on her knowledge of neuroscience of emotional regulation, Dr. Casabianca has developed HeartMinded Parenting, a continuing education course for mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers. Her work complements traditional clinical models by supporting caregivers transformation into primary agents of a child’s empathy development and emotional co-regulation.
Academic & Literary Contributions
An experienced educator and public speaker, Dr. Casabianca has served as an adjunct professor at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), where she taught child development and compassionate parenting. She has also served as the Chair of the Advisory Board for FGCU’s Roots of Compassion and Kindness (ROCK) Center.
She has delivered keynote presentations, private courses, and continuing education seminars for mental health associations, state counseling groups, and universities across the state of Florida in the United States and in Colombia. Her company, Eyes Wide Open LLC, provides approved CEU courses for licensed clinical professionals.
Dr. Casabianca is the author of several highly regarded non-fiction books, including: