Clarissa Cigrand, PhD, LPC,
Clarissa Cigrand, PhD, LPC is Content Expert at the Awake Network where she contributes to the design of summits and workshops and leads the Integration and Practice Labs, helping participants bring insights into embodied practice.
Aside from her work at the Awake Network, she is an Assistant Professor at Naropa University, a clinical supervisor, published researcher, and practicing counselor. Her work explores the reimagining of education through contemplative epistemologies, integrative wisdom traditions, and transformative learning experiences.
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Beautiful description of what we carry within ourselves after the giving co-regulating from others. Very helpful for therapists to understand.
Bonnie was my therapist many years ago. I will never forget how I felt in our sessions: accepted, heard and ‘held’ so safely in her presence. Seeing her in this workshop and listening to her wisdom is a wonderful gift for me and for all those listening to this interview. Thank you!
What a gem and what a beautiful interweaving of questions and answers between a young and an old wise one! And of course I heard of therapist self care (always practised too little) – but being highlighted as an issue of ethics – and rightfully so – and presenting it so naturally like a ripened life experience fruit – I receive it gratefully to put it to practice. Thank you so much!
I found this session to be a way to appreciate those around me that have been there for me, as well as validate my intrinsic thoughts and nature
Wow! This was really healing! Thank you Bonnie for Your integrated wisdom taught practical experience after experience. What a sweet conversation! I feel I can understand relational neuroscience so much better thanks to these integrated practices! Thank you both: Dr. Bonnie Badenoch and Dr. Clarissa Cigrand!
Thanks Bonnie, for the beautiful explaination of the left and right hemisphere and how we would want them to be in therapy and in our own experiences. Very insightful!
Loved this. So helpful to bring in the brain science and make the connection for therapists.
Also, I found it very impactful her discussion of those who have experienced neglect in families that focus entirely on the left brain so seem completely fine to both the client and the external community. The whole interplay between Clarissa and Bonnie was a beautiful micro experience of what she was addressing. Thank you!!
That was deeply moving and will change the way I relate to myself as a therapist and to my clients – it has shifted my understanding of why our own support system and supervision is so important. The importance of all of us being in connection not in total independence and self reliance (which as an independent (private practice) therapist is where I feel I exist at times). I loved the words “Our ANS is a beautiful truth telling communication system” A really useful reminder of how we lose connection when we go into left hemisphere trying to offer explanations and solutions. I have heard this from other therapists and made this mistake with my own children when they were teens and with parents I support in therapy at times. I was also really interested in the information about the impact of ‘implicit memory’. It resonated with things I read in Gabor Mate’s Myth of Normal. Thank you so much.
What an inspiring Video!
Thank you very much, Bonnie!!
What a beautiful coming together and sharing of the most important wisdom. Thank you both!