How to Repair with Your Kiddo (Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Tools) — with Stephanie Chimient

Do you love your child with everything you have — and still lie awake wondering if you're the reason they're struggling? That guilt is one of the heaviest things a parent can carry. And in this episode, Stephanie Chimienti is going to help you put some of it down.

Stephanie is a Registered Psychotherapist trained in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, play therapy, and parts work — a rare and powerful combination that allows her to work with families at multiple levels simultaneously: the cycles between parent and child, the internal parts the parent carries from their own history, and the healing that happens through play and connection.

In this warm, honest conversation, Stephanie and Michelle explore what actually breaks down in the space between a parent and child, what keeps families stuck in the same painful loops, and what repair genuinely looks like — not the big dramatic conversation most parents imagine, but something more ordinary and more profound.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What Emotionally Focused Family Therapy reveals about the attachment signal underneath your child's most challenging behavior — and how that reframe changes everything
• How the parts of you shaped by your own childhood history show up in your hardest parenting moments — and what to do when you recognize that's happening
• Why play is one of the most underestimated tools parents have for rebuilding genuine connection at home
• What the negative family cycle looks like from the inside — and the first thing that has to shift to interrupt it
• What repair actually looks like in EFFT — and why it is always possible, even after years of disconnection
• What Stephanie would say to the parent who is lying awake tonight convinced they are messing up their child

Topics: Emotionally Focused Family Therapy · EFFT · EFT for families · parent guilt · parenting shame · parts work and parenting · IFS parenting · play therapy at home · child attachment · parent-child reconnection · family cycles · parenting triggers · emotional regulation for parents · repair after yelling · gentle parenting · peaceful parenting · conscious parenting · attachment parenting · parenting burnout · connection over correction

Guest: Stephanie Chimienti, RP, MA — Registered Psychotherapist, Counselling & Co. Trained in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, play therapy, and parts work

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This content is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. Compassionate Heart Mindful Life does not provide psychotherapy services.

Where to reach Stephanie 

https://www.counsellingandco.com/stephanie-chimienti

https://www.instagram.com/stephanie.psychotherapy/

https://www.instagram.com/counselling_and_co/

Join me each week for a tail from the trenches of parenting burnout and how I (and you) can use mindfulness, mediation and self-compassion to find your inner calm and a little more sanity in your parenting.

You’ll get a story from my heart and a quick win you can use the same day.

A free gift for you: the RAGE Break, a free guided audio pause for when you are about to lose or have just lost it with your kids and you need a moment to regroup. Find the audio download in the links. I created the Rage Break because it is exactly what I needed when I was struggling with anger and yelling in parenting. 

This story was brought to you by “Yelling to Connecting.”  If you or someone you know struggles with yelling at your kids, losing it, or being constantly on edge this course will be a helpful tool. 

A reminder: This content is intended for educational purposes only and should not be used as a replacement for private psychotherapy services. Compassionate Heart Mindful Life does not provide psychotherapy services in any capacity.

I am a therapist but I am not your therapist and this is not therapy and should not be a substitute for mental health treatment. If you need mental health treatment please find a qualified professional in your area.

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