Dr. Silvia Casabianca, EdD, MA, LMHC, has been training parents and working with families for over 30 years!
Approved for LMHC, LFMT, LCSW – 12-FL CEUs
HeartMinded Parenting – The Training
For counselors and parents who want to raise compassionate, confident children
After three decades of work with families and children, I have developed a holistic approach to parenting that integrates the neuroscience of emotional regulation, compassion science, inductive discipline, trauma prevention, the ethics of care, and transformative learning.
HeartMinding Parenting helps parents understand how the fear generated by using power assertion and love withdrawal generates fear, compromise the quality of attachment, escalate conflict, and ultimately undermine the cooperation they seek from their children.
Drawing from current neuroscience and the works of Martin Hoffman, Daniel Batson and Paul Gilbert on inductive discipline, compassion, altruism, and prosocial behavior, HMP invites parents to not only recognize the emotional needs that the child’s behavior may express, but how to cultivate perspective taking, engage in reparative action after hurting others, and how to develop self-compassion and an awareness of others that is necessary for prosocial behavior.
Understanding the advances in the neuroscience of brain development and particularly of the brain circuits involved in cognitive empathy and an ethic of care, helps parents use inductive discipline to nurture perspective-taking (the capacity to understand how one’s actions affect others), and to foster the capacity to care for themselves, others, and the environment.
Caregivers will also learn how relational experiences could contribute to prosocial behavior, cooperation and the prevention of many of the ills that currently affect youth.
Six modules, via Zoom (one 2-hr session per week)
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.
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