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Dylan Leigh, MA
Visiting Instructor
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling
EDUCATION:
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS:
MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling, MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling (Low-Residency)
COURSES TAUGHT:
Dylan is an instructor at Naropa University’s Graduate School of Counseling, where he teaches foundational counseling skills, Gestalt, and the application of mindfulness in counseling. Dylan has consulted with businesses and organizations where provides mindfulness and emotional intelligence trainings. He was a research assistant at a cognitive-affective science lab, where helped write and publish academic research on mediation practices, compassion and emotion regulation. His clinical approach is therefore informed by neuroscience and empirically grounded thinking. Dylan’s journey through his own dark nights of the soul has given him a deeply rooted empathic and compassionate orientation towards the therapeutic relationship. Outside of this work he spends his time with family and friends, and in nature skiing, surfing, climbing, and trail running.
PUBLICATIONS:
Quaglia, J. T., Leigh, D., Berry, D., & Simmer-Brown, J. (2024, September 20). Dualism and Beyond: A Unified Framework for Self- and Other-Oriented Compassion.
Co-author – Published
“Engaging in Activities Intended for Mental Health Predicts Mental Health as Flourishing”
Co-author – Under Review
Quaglia, J. T. (2023). One compassion, many means: A big two analysis of compassionate
behavior. Mindfulness, 14(10), 2430-2442.
Contributor – Published
Quaglia, J. T., Cigrand, C., & Sallmann, H. (2022). Caring for you, me, and us: The lived
experience of compassion in counselors. Psychotherapy, 59(3), 321.
Contributor – Published
