How to Ease the Pain of Trauma-Induced Shame
Practical Strategies to Help You Treat Shame with Greater Skill and Efficacy
When it comes to treating trauma, shame is often the last and most difficult issue for clients to resolve.
That’s because it can spawn an unrelenting inner-critic and leave clients feeling like they’re bad or even “poisonous” at a core level – a challenging combination that can render many of our trauma interventions ineffective.
So to help clients release the painful weight of trauma-induced shame, we need to:
- Understand the neurobiological factors that allow shame to flourish in the aftermath of trauma
- Address the subtle and hidden ways that shame can present
- Overcome the barriers that can prevent clients (and sometimes practitioners) from working through shame
- Implement approaches that can help clients safely process shame (without inadvertently reinforcing it)
That’s why we brought together 16 of the world’s top experts to get their best strategies for helping clients overcome deeply ingrained feelings of shame that stem from trauma.
How to Ease the Pain of Trauma-Induced Shame
Expert Approaches to Help Clients Process Shame in a Safe and Healthy Way
Bessel van der Kolk, MD Peter Levine, PhD Stephen Porges, PhD
Janina Fisher, PhD Pat Ogden, PhD Deb Dana, LCSW
Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW
- A Polyvagal Approach to Working with Shame
- Working with Shameful Parts from an Internal Family Systems Perspective
- Body-Based Exercises That Can Help Clients Who Struggle to Verbalize Shame
- How to Help Clients Uncover Impulses Buried Underneath Shame
- One Powerful Way to Normalize a Client’s Experience of Shame
Strategies to Skillfully Detect Trauma-Induced Shame
Thema Bryant, PhD Pat Ogden, PhD Kathy Steele, MN, CS
- How to Recognize Shame Even When Clients Don’t Think It’s a Problem
- Four Defenses Clients Use to Manage Shame
- How Shame Can Appear in a Client’s Relationship Patterns
- Specific Behaviors That Can Indicate the Presence of Shame
- How Shame Can Disguise Itself as Self-Sabotage
The Neurobiology of Trauma-Induced Shame
Bessel van der Kolk, MD Peter Levine, PhD Janina Fisher, PhD
Pat Ogden, PhD Kathy Steele, MN, CS Thema Bryant, PhD
Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW
- An Important First Step to Treating Shame
- Recent Findings on the Neurobiology of Shame
- Two Factors That Make Shame Especially Debilitating (and Difficult to Treat)
- The Protective Purpose of Shame – and How That Can Impact Treatment
How to Work with Trauma-Induced Shame That Leads to Self-Harm
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD Pat Ogden, PhD
Janina Fisher, PhD Deb Dana, LCSW
- How to Pinpoint a Client’s Urge to Self-Harm
- A Subtle Form of Self-Harm (and How to Work with It)
- How to Help Clients Manage Their Urge to Self-Harm
- Strategies to Overcome the Challenges of Working with a Client Who Self-Harms
Common Mistakes That Can Derail Treatment
Bessel van der Kolk, MD Janina Fisher, PhD Richard Schwartz, PhD
Thema Bryant, PhD Kathy Steele, MN, CS Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW
- How Cognitive Approaches to Shame Can Backfire (and What to Try Instead)
- Why a Client’s Trauma History Can Distract from Treatment
- One Counterintuitive Goal of Treating Shame
- Why Helping Clients Practice Self-Forgiveness Can Sometimes Deepen Shame
How to Work with the Shame of Moral Injury
William Nash, MD Bessel van der Kolk, MD Pat Ogden, PhD
Janina Fisher, PhD Deb Dana, LCSW Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
- Why Moral Injury Can Lead to Debilitating Shame
- Strategies to Help Clients Reconcile Past Actions and Begin to Move Forward
- Why Some Clients Are Triggered by Positive Emotions (and How to Safely Help Clients Experience Them)
- Specific Factors That Make Some Clients More Susceptible to Moral Injury
Register Here for $197
You’ll get all the videos, audios, transcripts, learning tools, plus 3 bonuses
to help you work more effectively with a client’s shame
Up to 2.75 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures
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For This Short Course, We Brought Together Some of the Top Experts in the Field
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Neuroscientist and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. Author of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
Peter Levine, PhD
Founder of Somatic Experiencing; Author of Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory.
Janina Fisher, PhD
Licensed clinical psychologist and Instructor at the Trauma Center, an outpatient clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk, MD; past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation.
Stephen Porges, PhD
Developer of Polyvagal Theory; Distinguished University Scientist at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington and Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) research unit at the University of Western Ontario. Coauthor of The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic, and Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, Treatment.
Richard Schwartz, PhD
Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and The Center for Self Leadership; Author of Introduction to Internal Family Systems.
Thema Bryant, PhD
Licensed psychologist specializing in relief and empowerment of marginalized persons; Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Education at Pepperdine University; author of Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide.
Pat Ogden, PhD
Pioneer in Somatic Psychology; Founder and Director of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI); Co-founder of the Hakomi Institute; Author of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment.
Deb Dana, LCSW
Coordinator of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at the Kinsey Institute; Developer of the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series; author of Polyvagal Theory in Therapy.
Kathy Steele, MN, CS
Psychotherapist, consultant and trainer; expert on complex trauma, dissociation, attachment and therapeutic impasse; past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; co-author of Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach.
Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW
Psychotherapist, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and consultant at Cambridge Health Alliance; co-author of Internal Family Systems Therapy.
William Nash, MD
Director of Psychological Health for the U.S. Marine Corps.; coeditor, Combat Stress Injuries: Theory, Research, and Management; founding chair of the Military Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Ron Siegel, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Psychology, part time, Harvard Medical School; Author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems and Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy.
Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD
Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College; Author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy; Co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines.
Kelly Wilson, PhD
Co-author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change; Founder of OneLife Education Training, LLC.
Eboni Webb, PsyD
Licensed psychologist; specializes in DBT for trauma-based disorders and co-occurring disorders; advisor to the DBT National Certification Accreditation Association.
Course Director
Ruth Buczynski, PhD
Here's What You'll Get:
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Audio recordings you can download and listen to at home, in the car, at the gym or wherever you like |
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TalkBack Segments to distill key ideas (this is where we “land” the session) |
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Next Week in Your Practice sessions to give you concrete strategies to use with patients |
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Professionally-formatted transcripts of the sessions, to make review and action simple |
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Three downloadable bonus videos to help you work more effectively with a client’s shame |
Get 3 Bonuses That Give You Even More Strategies for Working with Shame
Bonus 1: How to Work with Shame in Clients Who Suffered Childhood Abuse or Neglect
Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW
- How Childhood Abuse or Neglect Can Create Conflicting Parts in a Client
- Strategies to Build Trust with a Client’s Inner Critic or Hesitant Parts
- Four Key Signs That a Client’s Shame Is Reducing
Bonus 2: How to Work with Shame in Survivors of Sex Trafficking
Thema Bryant, PhD
- The Unique Challenges of Treating Shame That Stems from Sex Trafficking
- Strategies to Help Shift Clients Out of Shame and Self-Blame
- Interventions That Could Heighten Feelings of Shame When with Working with Survivors of Sex Trafficking (and What to Try Instead)
Bonus 3: Strategies to Ease Feelings of Intense Shame – A Case Study
Eboni Webb, PsyD
- An Important First Step to Calm a Harsh Inner Critic
- A Key Difference in the Function of Self-Harm Between Clients Who Dissociate and Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder
- How to Help Clients Tolerate the Painful Emotions That Are Masked by Shame
- What NOT To Do When Working with Intense Feelings of Shame
Register Here for $197
You’ll get all the videos, audios, transcripts, learning tools, plus 3 bonuses
to help you work more effectively with a client’s shame
Up to 2.75 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures
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We invite you to register for this comprehensive training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.
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Synthesize Key Concepts So You Can Use Them Immediately
In the Critical Insights sessions, Ron Siegel, PsyD and Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD join Ruth Buczynski, PhD to dig more deeply into the key ideas. Our job is to make yours easier by streamlining the information from each module and making sure each point is crystal clear. We’ll clarify critical concepts and break it all down so you can gain confidence in your understanding.
Discover Concrete Practices That Will Work in Your Life, and with Your Patients
In the Focus on Application sessions, Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD, Kelly Wilson, PhD and Megan Schmidt, PsyD give you specific practices and exercises you can use with your clients right away. For each module, you’ll get solid techniques and practical interventions that will help you apply what you’ve just heard.
Uncover Core Ideas and Techniques at-a-Glance So You Have a “Cheat Sheet” When You Need It Most
The QuickStart Guide will help you stay fresh and confident as you turn these teachings into action. We’ve gathered all the essential tools and methods from the program into a concise, easy-to-use guide so you can quickly review and apply these ideas when you need them most. It’s an at-a-glance reference to the most powerful concepts and strategies for working with patients who have experienced trauma.
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Our Professional Transcript will help you reinforce key ideas so you can integrate them into your life and work. We’ve designed your transcript with an easy-to-use table of contents, clear, organized formatting, and helpful highlight quotes so you’ll have the information and exercises you need at your fingertips.
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- The transcript makes it easy to go back and double check concepts, citations and names that are mentioned
- We put in a table of contents to make it easy for you to find the exact part of the webinar you need
- Having the concepts already written allows you to take notes on how you’re going to use the ideas rather than transcribing the ideas
- Some people simply learn better by reading than by listening or watching
- You will be able to print out and share techniques presented in the session with your patients
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We invite you to register for this comprehensive training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.
Register Here for $197
You’ll get all the videos, audios, transcripts, learning tools, plus 3 bonuses
to help you work more effectively with a client’s shame
Up to 2.75 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures