You Just Read My Mind!!

Cultivating Meaningful Contact With Your Child

to Create a More Resilient Relationship

Presented by:

Kristin Areglado Hurley, LCPC, CST & Aron Carlson LCSW-C, LICSW

What: A two-day online workshop for parents who wish to develop an understanding of brain development, and the way their resilience (or lack thereof)  - is impacted by their family-of-origin - and influences their child(ren)’s brain(s).  Participants will develop an approach to self-confront and self-regulate in order to offer a collaborative alliance in the most challenging parenting moments.

When: Saturday, 11/8/2025 and Sunday, 11/9/2025 — 9:00am - 5:00pm EST

Cost:   $375 per person or $625 per 2 co-parents when registered by 9/8/25 $400 and $650 respectively after 9/8/25 (25 participant maximum)

Contact: khurleylcpc@hotmail.com to register

Workshop Objectives

1. Participants will develop an understanding of Theory of  Mind (Mind Mapping Ability) in their children.

 

2. Through self-reflection, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how their own reactivity - as it is impacted by family of origin experiences - influences their children’s brain development and also functions as the primary limiting factor in supporting their children’s healthy development.

 

3. Participants will learn about how their children’s mental picture of their parents / caregivers inform their own emerging relational patterns and brain development.

 

4. Participants will gain a deeper appreciation for the parental imperative to self-confront and self-soothe under stress and pressure in interactions with their children and co-parenting partner in order to increase the accuracy of their discernment when making parenting decisions.  Considerable attention will be given to somatic response and self-regulation.

 

5. Participants will learn about what is required of their minds  to offer a collaborative alliance to their children: a focus on what needs to be done (unilateral personal accountability and self-regulation), especially when the child is difficult to interact with. Collaborative alliance will be treated as the basis for parent/child healthy, meaningful, emotional contact.

 

Meet your Presenters:

Kristin Areglado Hurley, LCPC, CST has had a private therapy practice in Portland, ME since 2008;  she has been training in the Crucible Approach since 2011 with the late Dr. David Schnarch.  Her background includes working as a high school based counselor, a home based family therapist and clinical supervisor, and she worked with Maine Medical Center’s home based ANCHOR program.  Kristin taught Structural Family Therapy at the Sweetser Training Institute, has supervised counselor colleagues in marriage and family therapy, and she is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist.  

 

Kristin Areglado Hurley, LCPC, CST

Aron Carlson, LCSW-C, LICSW has practiced psychotherapy for 17 years in such settings as public elementary schools, a day treatment program for children and adolescents, community health outpatient services, and domestic violence agencies working with both perpetrators and survivors of intimate partner violence.  He has worked in the Washington D.C. area with children and their parents since 2013 and is a Maryland Board approved supervisor for new clinicians pursuing state licensure. Aron has trained in the Crucible Approach since 2018 and worked in private practice since 2019.

Aron Carlson LCSW-C, LICSW