Hello,
I am frequently contacted by therapists for help treating their traumatized clients. When I talk with them - and these are well-trained trauma therapists - the same roadblock keeps coming up over and over again.
Shame creates an immovable obstacle to successful treatment for nearly every therapist I know.
I, too, see the damage caused by shame in my own clients, preventing them from healing fully from trauma.
So, as I often do, I took this therapeutic dilemma and dissected it, deconstructing it until I figured out the complex relationship between shame and a history of trauma.
And here's what I discovered:
We therapists frequently confuse shame with low self-esteem, often assuming that it results from the degradation of being abused.
But shame and low self-esteem are very different things.
This is why trying to increase clients' self-esteem doesn't touch their deep-seated shame. And why working with trauma without understanding how to address shame can stop treatment in its tracks.
And that is what inspired me to create this new course, Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma.
Here's what you will learn in this unique online course:
Session 1: Shame and Trauma: Understanding Shame as a Survival Response
Session 2: How Experiences of Shame Become Cognitive Schemas -
Session 3: The Vicious Circles of Shame -
Session 4: Working with Shame as a Reflection of Fragmented Parts
Session 5: A Relational Approach to Shame
In these five sessions, Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma will show you how to integrate various techniques that help clients transform shame-based actions and reactions. You'll be able to help clients fight the power of shame and not let it determine the course of their lives.
You will understand shame from a neurobiological perspective and see how it differs from low self-esteem.
You will learn how to address shame as a trauma response and develop a toolkit of effective strategies for clients who struggle with shame.
You'll be able to build your repertoire with sensorimotor interventions emphasizing posture, movement, and gesture and develop parts-related techniques that increase self-compassion.
The shame your clients are dealing with will feel less overwhelming. You will gain confidence in your ability to gradually lead them out of the shame spiral.
Join us in changing the lives of those suffering from trauma-based shame.
Warmly,
Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
Feeling stuck with a client?
Shame might be the culprit.
Shame tends to stop all progress in trauma treatment.
If you have a client who is stuck in shame and negative beliefs about themselves... letting their self-hatred undermine treatment… and nothing you have tried has worked.
If you feel defeated by a client who you can't help (and let's face it, helping people is why you chose to become a therapist!)... locked in self-denigration and submissive, people-pleasing behavior… who can't tolerate positive experiences or positive feedback... and you are left feeling inadequate.
If you and your client are at a crossroads… their feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy seeping into your own… blocking any progress and leaving you both feeling hopeless.
Help your clients reclaim their lives and their self-esteem. Help them see themselves as worthy. Help them have a life moving forward. Do all this with your clients working with you rather than fighting against you.
Here's everything that's included:
Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma
1. FIVE SHAME AND SELF-LOATHING IN THE TREATMENT OF TRAUMA 2-HOUR TRAINING MODULES WITH JANINA
Each session explores shame as a result of trauma and the neuroscience behind how shame works in the psyche of a trauma survivor. Janina will show you - with tapes from client sessions, explanations, and demonstrations - the techniques to use when working with clients suffering from shame. You'll learn a parts-based approach to working with shame, gather mindfulness-based somatic interventions that address both shame beliefs and responses, and understand how to help clients change their relationship to shame.
2. Access to the Academy of Therapy Wisdom private membership site
All your course materials in one easy-to-navigate platform, supported by our dedicated customer service team.
3. Downloadable course materials
Recordings, transcripts, and handouts so you can re-watch and dive in deeper at your own pace.
Plus, these special bonuses:
Transforming the Shape of Shame - with De West, C-IAYT, RYT, RPYT
Body language can provide information to help us understand how people - ourselves and others - may be feeling in a given situation. In Transforming the Shape of Shame, you will be guided in five 30-minute sessions through 5 movement practices for the eyes, mouth/facial expression, gestures/arms and legs, breath, and posture/personal space, focusing on recognizing and transforming non-verbal shame-holding patterns in these areas of the body.
Shame as an Attachment Wound
An exclusive conversation between Janina and Deirdre Fay, MSW, LICSW, in which they discuss shame and attachment.
Deirdre Fay works with people who have crummy histories to develop an inner platform for success to get their needs met for life. With decades of experience as a psychotherapist and educator, Deirdre brings together modern neurobiology and ancient wisdom into a practice of what she calls "becoming safely embodied." Deirdre is the author of Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World.
HERE'S WHAT YOU WILL LEARN INSIDE:
Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma
Session ONE
Shame and Trauma: Understanding Shame as a Survival Response
For people experiencing trauma, the effects of shame are 'protective' in a time of threat. For trauma survivors, shame remains as a response to both negative and positive contexts. Mistakes, criticism, and poor performance trigger shame, but so does success, validation, and positive feedback. Learn how shame is used to navigate both success and failure so you understand the complexity of addressing shame.
In this session, you will learn about:
Shame as an automatic survival response
How shame helps regulate risk for trauma survivors
Re-interpreting shame to evoke curiosity
The danger of thinking success is going to cure shame
Session TWO
How Experiences of Shame Become Cognitive Schemas
Shame is a physical and emotional response without words. After a shame attack, we try to make meaning of what we feel. But, of course, the words and meaning reflect just how awful shame feels: degrading, humiliating, overwhelming, small, and powerless. When this cycle is repeated, the beliefs become a lens through which all subsequent experience is interpreted.
In this session, you will learn about:
The belief systems that are created by shame
How shame beliefs result in physical responses
Disrupting shame-related patterns
Challenges to breaking the schema
Session Three
The Vicious Circles of Shame
Beliefs have the power to stimulate a shame response each time the client repeats, "I'm worthless," "I'm stupid," or "I'm a failure." In turn, the physical/emotional response to these words reinforces the beliefs, creating a vicious circle of increasing shame. You can help clients differentiate between the feelings and the words, so they notice the impact of each. Then, learn new mindfulness-based somatic interventions that address both shame responses and beliefs so your clients don't remain stuck in the cycle of shame.
In this session, you will learn about:
The development of shame-based beliefs
The destructiveness of shame-based responses
How to interpret shame so it informs your treatment interventions
Three interventions to break the cycle of shame
Session FOUR
Working with Shame as a Reflection of Fragmented Parts
Beyond the destructive cycle of shame is its tendency to result in dissociation and fragmentation. Learn how shame reflects a relationship between two parts of the individual: a part that judges, criticizes, or humiliates, and a part that feels attacked, mortified, and ashamed. Explore how to interrupt the vicious circles of shame and protect your client from the critical part that keeps the client feeling small and invisible.
In this session, you will learn about:
Addressing shame as a parts issue
How to challenge client's unconditional acceptance of shame-based beliefs
Helping clients develop compassion for the 'ashamed part'
Employing empathy as a therapist's powerful intervention for shame
Session FIVE
A Relational Approach to Shame
The therapist's own relationship with shame can be a powerful intervention. While simply empathizing with shame, or exploring the traumatic events that caused it, does not transform shame, using ourselves to regulate and shift experiences of shame opens up new therapeutic opportunities. This workshop provides the added benefit of helping therapists work with their own shame.
In this session, you will learn about:
How to use our right-brain-to-right-brain communication as a tool
Capitalizing on an understanding of mirror neurons
Treating shame from the "bottom up"
Non-verbal as well as verbal interventions
Challenging the negativity bias
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Meet Your Presenter
Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Janina Fisher, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor at Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation. Dr. Fisher is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment.
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"Janina's way of dialoguing with parts has proved to be invaluable."
"Sometimes the simplicity of just being with a part that has experienced rejection, rather than additionally inviting the part to "unburden" has been really useful."
- Paul Khosla
"[This course] has helped me in exploring my parts and how they operate."
"Professionally, it's helped me better understand a little better how some of my clients' psyche operates. The compassion piece is so important and so much easier to manifest when there is also understanding."
- Ana
"My approach to clients has shifted."
"I am much more confident in working with a wider range of presenting issues around complex trauma."
- Michael Sobocinski
"My confidence and therapeutic skills have increased dramatically."
"It's totally changed the way of me understanding myself and others - I don't have as much shame."
"I learned so much about my strengths and growth areas through role-playing..."
"...and watching others role-play, and hearing so much thoughtful guidance from our facilitator."
- Jon L.
"I feel Janina's presence when I work with my clients."
"I am moved by Janina's ability to present complex material in a clear and practical way. I appreciate her depth of knowledge, experience, and skills, as well as her warmth, generosity and presence. I love how she models how to work with clients with non-judgment and deep compassion."
- Maureen Drage
Here's Everything You Receive with
Shame and Self-Loathing
in the Treatment of Trauma
Plus, these special bonuses:
ENROLL NOW
Single Payment of
$327
Learn from Janina Fisher in
Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma
If you are a BIPOC helping professional,
please accept our discounted enrollment price for this course by clicking here.
We are glad to have you with us!