Parenting with Compassion: Creating Bonds with Children that Transcend Rules
The Institute for Muslim Mental Health Presents Meet the Expert Webinar Series
Parenting with Compassion: Creating Bonds with Children that Transcend Rules
with Hamzah Beydoun, LMFT
This session discusses the concept of attachment as the center of creating a secure child–parent bond and relationship. A secure bond supports children in developing a strong sense of identity, confidence, and in feeling safe to share their struggles with parents. We will explore, from an attachment lens, how parenting with compassion informs parenting choices, how to address parenting challenges such as bedtime and tantrums, and how to support children in developing their identity through empathy and choice language. 🌿
Learn how attachment and compassion shape stronger, more secure relationships between parents and children. 🤍
About the Expert
Hamzah Beydoun is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with extensive experience working with couples and families from diverse backgrounds and life experiences. He has worked with couples and families facing struggles related to family conflicts, communication issues, intergenerational family conflicts, mental health-related family issues (addiction, anxiety, depression), parenting/co-parenting, child behavioral issues (anger/oppositional/isolation), and couples requesting premarital counseling.
Being raised in the Middle East and attending college in the US has allowed Hamzah to relate to both cultures and to be fluent in Arabic and English—something that has been essential in working with intergenerational families with first-generation immigrant parents and their US-born second-generation children. As a father of three children, Hamzah holds a unique place for working with families struggling with parenting and holds a unique place in his heart.
Hamzah has earned his master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a focus on Marriage and Family Counseling. He is licensed and practices in both IL and MI. He provides services in English and Arabic.