Psihoterapeut Alina Comendant

Psihoterapeut Alina Comendant Psychotherapist

About learningAs a therapistAs a lifelong learnerAs a trainee therapistAs a CTA candidateAs a PTSTA…you’ve got the point...
27/05/2026

About learning

As a therapist
As a lifelong learner
As a trainee therapist
As a CTA candidate
As a PTSTA

…you’ve got the point.

Two weeks ago, I facilitated a workshop on ethics in psychotherapy for a group of future colleagues (trainees in their final year, soon to be certified), and I found myself deeply immersed in the learning process — for myself, for them, and for us as a group.

For myself, I thought that I would have loved for someone to teach me about ethics in the way I approached it. It might sound grandiose — and perhaps it is — yet I believe that we learn best when we teach a subject.

The group agreed that my psychological contract (expectation) of making the workshop feel like a juicy steak rather than a dry one was achieved. The special ingredients? A focus on the “new ethics” from the Adult ego state, with a touch of the Child ego state in the teaching methodology.

For us as a group, we learned together: we brought ideas to life, read two ethical codes in record time, and acted as members of an Ethics Committee to put learning into practice.

I think what I want to say is that learning never stops.

After this workshop, I feel more aware of the different flavours of specific topics within the broad field of ethics. Some of them will be very useful for my TSTA exam.

One never stops learning. The moment you think you know it all is often the moment you realise how much you still don’t know.

Yesterday I facilitated a workshop for Romanian parents together with World Vision Romania.We talked about teenagers, sc...
24/04/2026

Yesterday I facilitated a workshop for Romanian parents together with World Vision Romania.

We talked about teenagers, school, hope — and about the daily effort parents make, often quietly, to support their children.

At some point I shared a few numbers from PISA and OECD:

39% of children in Romania grow up at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
16.8% of young people leave school early — the highest rate in the EU.

Not because they are less capable nor because parents care less. But because life sometimes asks for results now, not later.

What I keep thinking about today is not the statistics.
It is the parents who showed up, listened, asked questions, and stayed in the conversation.

Change in education may be slow.
But it often begins exactly like this — with people willing to reflect together.

Insight from the Decontamination workshop:
17/04/2026

Insight from the Decontamination workshop:

Changing seasons Spring reminds us that learning is never a solitary act.It happens in community: in circles of trust, i...
07/04/2026

Changing seasons

Spring reminds us that learning is never a solitary act.
It happens in community: in circles of trust, in shared questions, in the courage to grow together.

Winter may have been a time of quiet preparation, of listening and waiting.Now, as the light returns, we gather again to plant seeds of knowledge, curiosity, and connection.

As facilitators, our role is not to push growth,but to hold the space where growth becomes possible —to create warmth, safety, and presence,so that each voice can find its place in the learning community.

Education, like spring, is a collective act of hope.

Almost a month since the CPC conference and the processing is still going.I facilitated a workshop called “Van desintere...
01/04/2026

Almost a month since the CPC conference and the processing is still going.
I facilitated a workshop called “Van desinteresse naar nieuwsgierigheid” — from disinterest to curiosity — for about sixty educators. The starting point was a question I find myself returning to often: what happens to physis — that natural life force that drives curiosity and growth — when a child moves through a system that was not designed to protect it?

The preparation mattered to me. I believe in what Giles Barrow calls natality — the idea that education is an act of rebirth. So I prepared seed envelopes as a symbol of physis and designed the session around the Mantle of the Expert method.

My partner helped me by “playing” the role of the school director calling for help. The room became the expert team. What I enjoyed most was tasting exactly what I had proposed — learning through genuine interaction with the group.
The thing I keep coming back to: educators don’t create curiosity. But they can protect, awaken and nurture it.

Thank you , Simone and Adri for the trust.
Niemand buitensluiten — nobody left outside. A motto worth carrying that walks the talk in CPC.

Geometrie d’identità Adolescence and young adulthood are suspended times — thresholds where identity doesn’t settle into...
24/03/2026

Geometrie d’identità

Adolescence and young adulthood are suspended times — thresholds where identity doesn’t settle into a fixed shape, but keeps drawing and redrawing itself.

ITACA invites you to the Seminario di Lavarone 2026, a space to pause, listen, and think together about the new geometries of identity: the lines that break and reconnect, the forms searching for balance, the questions that ask to be lived before they can be answered.
In a world reshaped by the digital, by shifting relationships, by social, geopolitical and environmental change — how do we support the identity processes of the young?
28–29 August 2026
Fri 9:15–18:00 ·
Sat 9:00–18:00

📍 Lavarone, Italy
Open to professionals in clinical, counselling, educational and organizational fields.
Looking forward seeing everyone🙌🏻

Thank you for the post.

As we finished the Advanced TA training (year 2), one question arrived: “We want more. Is there a third year?”So I began...
19/03/2026

As we finished the Advanced TA training (year 2), one question arrived: “We want more. Is there a third year?”

So I began wondering — what does more mean when you already have experience?

At a certain stage, as described by Howell (1982), development shifts. Learning is no longer just about adding techniques. It’s about returning to theory — with new eyes. What we once learned starts to open, expand, and connect differently.Like when you do your certification exam.

This is where both competence and professional authority deepen: not through accumulation, but through revisiting, questioning, and widening our range of choices.

From this reflection, a new step emerged: together with UTAS, we opened a third-year group — Inside the Psychotherapy Process.

So far, we’ve explored:
– the therapeutic relationship (through Judy Barr’s relational modes)
– contracting as an ongoing, living process and the gap between the explicit and the unspoken
Because often, that space is where the real work happens.

Going deeper into what we already know — this is where (The Heart of) practice meets the philosophy of learning.

Flori, cărți și cafea.Mărțișor în formă de cană și cornulețe de “acasa” ❤️🤍
01/03/2026

Flori, cărți și cafea.
Mărțișor în formă de cană și cornulețe de “acasa” ❤️🤍

E mai mult decât bucurie de a facilita workshopuri despre dezvoltarea copiilor când (re)vin la Centrul Familia Ta, în en...
25/02/2026

E mai mult decât bucurie de a facilita workshopuri despre dezvoltarea copiilor când (re)vin la Centrul Familia Ta, în engleză i-aș zice encounter: o întâlnire cu familiar( vă mulțumesc ca reveniți și ca ne reîntâlnim) și nou: oameni noi, etape noi.
Pe altă dată 🙌🏻

Am susținut aseară, la invitația Centrului Familia Ta, un workshop pentru părinți și profesori pe tema modului în care o...
22/10/2025

Am susținut aseară, la invitația Centrului Familia Ta, un workshop pentru părinți și profesori pe tema modului în care oferim iubire și structură copiilor în zilele noastre.
Ne-am uitat la provocările care apar, la întrebările pe care le avem și la posibilitățile existente pe cele două „autostrăzi” din modelul propus de Jean Illsley Clarke.

Am atins și teme care țin nu doar de relația părinților din interiorul familiei, ci și de modul în care aceste modele se manifestă cultural. De exemplu, am discutat despre ce facem atunci când, în jurul nostru, există multă indulgență sau tendința de a compensa ceea ce nu am avut noi ca părinți, oferind prea mult copiilor — de la recunoaștere la bani sau timp petrecut pe gadgeturi — mai ales atunci când provenim din contexte de abuz sau neglijență.

Pentru mine, acest workshop a fost special datorită oamenilor care au revenit la întâlnirile mele și cu care ne cunoaștem de ani de zile, din diferite contexte de suport. Să îi revăd a fost o surpriză frumoasă, ca și cm timpul ar fi stat în loc în toți acești ani.

Mulțumesc pentru încredere și recunoaștere,
și mulțumesc centrulfamiliata pentru invitație și găzduire.

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