Heartminded Parenting

HeartMinded Parenting

A Professional Training for Counselors

Dr. Silvia Casabianca, MD, EdD, MA, LMHC, RM

Course Name	HeartMinded Parenting: From Fear to Solidarity
Format	6 online sessions × 2 hours | via Zoom
Cohort Size	Maximum 12 participants per cohort
Availability	From May 2026 | Scheduling arranged with your organization
Who Should Attend	LMHC, LCSW, LMFT and interns | School counselors | Child welfare professionals | Anyone working with parents and children
Contact	ewollc@yahoo.com | (239) 322-4977 | regainingbodywisdom.com

What Participants Gain

• Understand the neuroscience of emotional regulation and its implications for parenting
• Read children’s behavior as a language expressing unmet emotional needs (Adlerian framework)
• Apply inductive discipline methods that develop cognitive empathy and moral reasoning
• Guide parents through reflective practice — examining intergenerational patterns through transformative learning
• Use stage-appropriate interventions matched to the family’s developmental moment (Carter & McGoldrick)
• Support parents in moving from compliance and fear-based responses toward genuine connection and compassionate action

What Makes This Training Distinctive

HeartMinded Parenting brings the parent into the therapeutic process as an active participant — not peripheral, but central. It is grounded in family systems theory, neuroscience, Adlerian psychology, inductive discipline, and transformative learning, and aims not at behavioral compliance but at the development of cognitive empathy and principled moral reasoning in children.

Participants engage in the same reflective process they will facilitate with families, including guided journaling and individualized written feedback from Dr. Casabianca.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain the basic neuroscience of emotion regulation, compassion and empathy to parents
• Examine and identify disorienting dilemmas, explore limiting frames of reference, address intergenerational transmission of parenting
• Address blockage of care by encouraging self-care, seeking support, and applying PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy)
• Help parents interpret child behavior as communication of unmet emotional needs – address parents’ emotional needs
• Apply inductive discipline to promote empathy and compassion
• Guide parents into activating tend-and-befriend system & counteract blocked care
• Support parents in developing self-compassion
• Keep interventions appropriate for family life cycle stage (Carter & McGoldrick)
• Reflect on effects of applying HeartMinded framework in clinical practice with families