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Toxic Shame in Clinical Practice: Help Clients Release Shame, Get Unstuck and Improve Treatment Outcomes


Speaker:
Patti Ashley, PhD, LPC
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC054025
Brochure Code:
PLW63798
Media Type:
Live Webcast - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

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Normal Price:      $249.99 - Now:  $49.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

Clinicians often report feeling “stuck” and unsure of the reasons why clinical strategies aren’t working. Attend this workshop with shame expert, Patti Ashley, Ph.D., LPC, and enhance your clinical skills using neurobiological-informed and relational-informed strategies for identifying and treating toxic shame.

Toxic shame is like an infectious disease that lies untreated due to symptoms being difficult to recognize or misdiagnosed. Learning how to recognize and treat toxic shame requires you to be vulnerable and courageous in the therapy session.

Recognizing the signs of toxic shame in the assessment and treatment process can be difficult. Here are some examples of client behaviors to watch for that could indicate shame:

  • Frequently cancels sessions
  • Terminates treatment early
  • Deflects and projects onto others
  • Narcissistic self-inflation
  • Perfectionism
  • Minimization
  • Anger, rage and contempt
  • and more

This workshop will take you back to the origins of shame and help you identify the non-verbal unspoken and unseen aspects in clinical work. Understanding how shame can undermine the therapeutic alliance and using somatic strategies to deepen an authentic relationship with the client are the keys to working with toxic shame in clinical practice.

Dr. Ashley has heard other clinicians who have taken this workshop say they experienced a “sigh of relief.” This is a seminar you don’t want to miss!

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

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Counselors - South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists

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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

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Social Workers - Colorado Social Workers

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Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


Social Workers - Illinois Social Workers

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Social Workers - Kansas Social Workers

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Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

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Social Workers - New York Social Workers

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Psychologists - Canadian Psychologists

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Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Psychology. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.3 continuing education credits.


Psychologists - Minnesota Psychologists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

This activity consists of 380 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the activity advertisement, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Provider # 503. This course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 6.0 credits. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - New York Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This activity will qualify for 7.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance


Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

NAADAC

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Connecticut Addiction Counselors

Provider #120924. This course has been approved as a CCB approved training and has been awarded 6.25 hours by the Connecticut Certification Board.


Chaplains/Clergy

This course is designed to qualify for 6.25 continuing education hours.


Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education credit.


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This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

This intermediate activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


Certification in Thanatology

This educational offering is recognized by the Association for Death Education and Counseling to meet the thanatology-related educational contact hour requirements to be Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement. This course will award 6.25 contact hours to participants.


Other Professions

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Speaker

Patti Ashley, PhD, LPC's Profile

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Patti Ashley, PhD, LPC, is a psychotherapist, international speaker and best-selling author of Shame-Informed Therapy: Treatment Strategies to Overcome Core Shame and Reconstruct the Authentic Self (PESI Publishing, 2020).

With over 20 years of experience as a licensed counselor, Dr. Ashley brings unique insights into the identification and treatment of trauma, shame, grief and dysfunctional family patterns. She has counseled individuals, couples, families and groups in mental health agencies, psychiatric hospitals, and private practice settings. She currently maintains a private practice in Colorado where her Authenticity Architecture model helps clients break through unconscious barriers and rediscover a sense of self-love, belong, and connection.

In addition to her book for psychotherapists, Dr. Ashley is the author of Living in the Shadow of the Too-Good Mother Archetype (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2014) and Letters to Freedom (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2019). In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Ashley develops and teaches continuing education courses for psychotherapists, physicians, hospital wellness programs, universities, and several private organizations.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Patti Ashley has an employment relationship with Authenticity Architects. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Ashley receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Patti Ashley has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 

 


Objectives

  1. Summarize the nature of toxic shame as it relates to the therapeutic process.
  2. Identify how the different attachment styles play a role in how client’s shame is formed.
  3. Discover how toxic shame develops as a core identity and how it can be a roadblock in clinical treatment.
  4. Correlate how toxic shame and trauma function similarly to the nervous system and how that relates to clinical treatment.
  5. Utilize clinical strategies to help heal shame and get clients unstuck in the therapeutic process.
  6. Develop skills to help clients regulate shame triggers both in-session and everyday living.

Outline

PART ONE: HOW SHAME SHOWS UP IN TREATMENT
Toxic Shame
Research & Definitions
  • Ruptures in interpersonal relationships create a shame-based identity
  • Shame and trauma function similarly in the nervous system
  • Subconscious shame effects of poisonous parenting
  • Attachment theories as they relate to shame
  • D.W. Winnicott’s true self/false self
  • Shame in family, culture and other systems
  • Limitations of the research
Signs of Toxic Shame:
What to Watch for in Assessment and Beyond
  • Individual Therapy – the client who:
    • Talks the whole session
    • Frequently cancels sessions
    • Feels bad when progress seems to have eluded
    • Terminates treatment early
    • Deflects and projects onto others
    • Relapses and does not return
    • Minimizes problems
    • Excessively intellectualizes and analyzes treatment
  • Couples/Family Therapy
    • The attack/defend patter
    • Anger, rage and contempt
    • Judgment of self and others
    • Grandiosity, narcissism and self-inflation
    • People pleasing and codependency
    • Avoidance
    • Problems with intimacy
  • Group Therapy:
    • Cross-talk
    • Intellectualizing
    • Silence
    • Judgment
    • Conflict
When the Therapist is Part of the Problem
Rigid Treatment Models May Increase Shame and Decrease Positive Outcomes
  • Shame can be activated when therapist appears to be the “expert”
  • Some strategies hinder treatment outcomes
  • Strategies that may create barriers to creativity and relational presence
  • Impact of mirror neurons and epigenetics
  • How naming “shame” can be shaming
  • Unconsciously enacting shaming parent
  • Treating client as appointment or diagnosis
  • What to do when your shame is triggered in-session
PART TWO: TREATING THE TOXIC SHAME
Effectively Treat Toxic Shame
Implications for Treatment to Move Forward with Clients
  • Right and left brain integration
  • Bottom-up versus top-down treatment approaches
  • Modeling, engaging and sustaining self-compassion
  • Repair the interpersonal bridge to self and others
  • Courage and vulnerability in right-brain regulation
  • Sustaining empathy in parallel process
  • Transference and counter-transference in treatment
Therapeutic Strategies:
Putting It All to Practice
  • Build a Safe Therapeutic Holding Environment
    • Establish safety and trust
    • Set a stage for treatment
    • Strong foundation for therapeutic work
  • Build a Solid Relationship
    • Therapeutic empathy as the antidote for shame
    • Connect and establish equal power
    • Mindfulness and compassion
  • Bridge the Head and Heart
    • Psycho-education to demystify shame
    • ”I” statements to identify shame-based feelings
    • Going beyond cognitive therapy models
  • Witness and guide clients through deeper layers
    • Return shame to its origin
    • Somatic strategies
    • Re-wiring new neural pathways
  • Experiential Tools and Techniques
    • Creative arts, writing and movement activities
    • Mindfulness and meditation
    • Archetypes, story-telling and mythology
    • Music and sound healing
    • Journaling and letter-writing
  • Working with Secrets
    • Patience and compassion
    • Deeper shame
    • Tolerance and non-judgmental witnessing
  • Creativity
    • Every client is unique
    • How therapy is like art
    • Goodness of fit
  • Research limitations and potential treatment risks

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Other Mental Health Professionals, Chaplains/Clergy

Reviews

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Total Reviews: 5

Comments

Ann T

"Thank you Patti for talking about this pervasive and difficult to articulate topic. thanks also for getting to the end of the seminar and covering all the material (many speakers have to rush or skip the end of their materials). thanks also for the wonderful handouts for us to use with our clients. what a wonderful gift! Ann Tucker, Ph.d."

Kathrin G

"I found the presenter very inspiring and engaging."

Panagiota L

"Thank you so much!!!! I am deeply grateful"

Fiona G

"Thank you so much Patti. This course resonated greatly with me - I work with trauma, enduring mental health, dementia and learning disabilities. Shame pervades every group. Most of all, I recognised shame in myself and the "enoughness" that I need to keep reminding myself of. I am an art psychotherapist practicing in London and this course has reinforced a lot of what I already believed about utilising the arts in therapy, especially with shame. So thank you."

Stephanie G

"Excellent course, I learned so much! Thank you for your vulnerability and your work."

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