Being a Brain-Wise Therapist Quotes

“Attuned communication. The ability for attuned communication, indispensable for establishing secure attachment between parent and child (or therapist and patient), rests on our capacity to accurately sense someone else’s state and communicate, nonverbally (most important) and verbally (less important), our felt understanding of their emotional experience.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology

“unfolds will often reflect the degree of resolution they have achieved. We can use our bodies and emotions to sense the subjective experience of their wounds, and our insight to understand the ramifications for brain integration. This experience is very far from what is usually called “history taking.” Instead, it is a whole-person to whole-person joining experience that quickly lays the foundation for a powerful therapeutic alliance at many levels.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology

“neuroscience can be seen as offering metaphors that point in a general direction, but don't exactly match anyone's individual experience.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology