The Center for Healing Shame: 
Training Workshops for Therapists and Helping Professionals

with Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT and Bret Lyon, PhD, SEP 

 

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These training workshops are designed to help therapists show clients how to recognize shame, work through it and move on. We will teach you how to become more sensitive to the shaming often implicit in the therapy situation and learn how to counter shame in therapy. You will learn how to help clients separate feelings of shame from other emotions. And you’ll learn how to take clients back to early shaming situations and reverse the outcome, helping clients move their energy powerfully outward rather than turn it against themselves.

The Center for Healing Shame is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in California – CAMFT-approved CE provider #134393. Courses meet the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. 

We also offer a full training program leading to certification as a Practitioner in the Healing Shame - Lyon/Rubin Method.

“Best workshop I attended all year. Essential knowledge for anyone who does any kind of emotionally based psychotherapy. Greatly needed information which will be immediately useful.” 
— Richard Doleman, MFT, Certified EFT Therapist

"All therapists should attend your workshop. Truly—it was invaluable. Incredibly rich and unforgettable. I learned a tremendous amount and was spinning with excitement. It has already changed my practice. Your accessibility and authenticity made for the most invaluable learning for me. I really cannot thank you enough."  
— Sara Wicks, LCSW, NY

"I highly recommend this work to EVERY therapist. Bret and Sheila are brilliant together, well-grounded in research, hugely compassionate and safe, and AMAZING..."  
— Belle Hazlehurst, RN, MFT

  Current workshops include:

  • Healing Shame - The Core Workshop

  • Melting the Shame Freeze: Using Somatic Techniques to Create Safety and Build Attunement

  • Through the Looking Glass: Using Imaginal Resources to Heal Shame

  • Healing Shame in Inner Children—and Actual Children

  • Healing Shame in the Inner Teenager—and Actual Teenagers

  • Healing Shame in Couples

  • Sex and Shame

  • Shame and the Body: Body Image, Eating Disorders and Embodiment

  • Shame and the Body - Level Two: Transforming Great Sensitivity into Personal Power

  • Shame and Aging

  • Healing Shame in Men

  • Healing Shame in Women

  • Shame and Parenting

  • Advanced 1: Giving Back the Shame

  • Advanced 2: ShameShifting: Transforming Toxic Shame into Healthy Shame

Sheila Rubin and her husband, Bret Lyon, co-lead Healing Shame workshops in many cities in the U.S. and Canada, including New York, Portland, Oregon, Montreal, Ottawa and Victoria, B.C.  They are based in Berkeley, California, where they offer workshops several times a year, as well as a full training program for therapists. They offer workshops and training online as well. 

For information and a full schedule, visit www.HealingShame.com

 
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Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Registered Drama Therapist and a Board Certified Trainer. She has trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Sue Johnson, in AEDP with Diana Fosha, and in Hakomi with Ron Kurtz. She has developed therapy techniques that integrate AEDP, EFT, drama therapy, and somatic therapy to work with adults, couples, and children who have shame and trauma. She has served as adjunct faculty for the California Institute of Integral Studies Drama Therapy Program and JFK University’s Somatic Psychology Department. Her expertise, teaching, and writing contributions have been featured in numerous publications, including seven books. She has been a healing professional for over 30 years. 

 
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Bret Lyon, PhD, SEP has been a teacher of Somatic and Emotional Mindfulness for over 30 years and holds doctorate degrees in both Psychology and Drama. He is certified in Focusing and Somatic Experiencing® and has trained in EFT with Sue Johnson, in AEDP with Diana Fosha and in Coherence Therapy with Bruce Ecker. Bret has also trained in Reichian Breathwork with Al Bauman, who worked directly with Wilhelm Reich. He finds his theater background very helpful with clients and especially in giving presentations.

 

 

For more information, including descriptions and dates of each workshop, please click below to be taken to the Center for Healing Shame website.