- Articulate how shame influences various mental health conditions.
- Identify factors frequently related to the experience of shame.
- Explain the relationship between Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of shame and trauma.
- Identify the four characteristics of empathy.
- Compare elements of family systems' therapies, authenticity, shame, and the false self/true self.
- Utilize mindfulness, meditation, and HRV coherence exercises.
- Explain the role of yoga, dance, movement, and somatic practices in mediating shame and trauma.
- Identify how perfectionism, co-dependency, and other behavior patterns are defenses against shame.
- Utilize somatic and mindfulness approaches to enhance emotional regulation.
- Recognize the impact of attachment on self-worth.
- Paraphrase how shame relates to body image, disordered eating, and self-worth.
- Categorize the role of self-compassion in the relationship between shame-proneness and self-forgiveness.
No matter what you treat, shame lies at the core of the chronic “not enoughness” that's common in many of your clients.
You want so badly for them to see they ARE ENOUGH.
But when their wounds run this deep and their guard is up, they question whether they even deserve help and getting clients to open up and trust you feels impossible.
Now with this FREE 2-day training, you can become a Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Professional and equip yourself with the skills and tools you need to dismantle the roots of shame and guide your clients toward a more authentic narrative—one where they can see their true value.
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2-Day: The "Not Good Enough" Treatment Plan: A Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist Training
For the first time ever - bestselling author, psychotherapist and international speaker Dr. Patti Ashley will show you how to incorporate elements of somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness, polyvagal theory, positive psychology, expressive interventions, and more so you can:
- Work with perfectionism, co-dependency and other manifestations of shame
- Teach clients to recognize their authentic voice vs. the voice of shame
- Successfully challenge the distorted beliefs that shame has constructed
- Transform clients' negative self-talk into self-empowerment
- Help clients reframe negative thoughts and replace them with self-compassion
- Provide clients tools to enhance emotional regulation and embrace their worthiness
- Use narrative and creative approaches to help clients share their vulnerabilities
Don't let the grip of shame continue to hold your clients back from the fulfilling lives they deserve.
This is your risk-free way to get the tools you need to break down the barriers of chronic “not-enoughness” and empower your clients.
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2-Day: The "Not Good Enough" Treatment Plan: A Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist Training
- Attachment and early brain development
- Social-emotional development
- Shame-based identify formation
- Why self-compassion is so hard to access
- Shame-based parenting and the first six years of life
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
- Cultural influences
- Understanding the vagus nerve
- ANS hierarchy - implications for emotional states and self-perception
- Neuroception's role in assessing safety
- The power of co-regulation, emotional safety, and connection
- Stephen Porges' four therapeutic “R”s
- Attunement as the key to therapeutic change
- Co-regulating safety and equal power in the therapeutic relationship
- Creating a holding environment
- Therapists as attachment figures
- Safe emergencies
- Epigenetics and neuroplasticity
- Recognizing implicit cues
- Non-verbal and non-linear awareness
- Attachment styles
- Pinpointing developmental traumas
- Strategies of disconnection
- Perfectionism, co-dependency, addiction, rage, disordered eating and other manifestations
- Person-centered psychotherapy
- Empathy as a right-brain activity
- Mirror neurons role in paving the path of empathy
- Four characteristics of empathy
- Therapist self-assessment
- Four non-linear skills
- Teaching clients to tolerate discomfort and embrace paradox
- Productive ways to express anger
- Emotional regulation ABCs and exercises
- Excavation exercise
- Connecting the emotional dots to early childhood trauma and shame
- Functional vs. familiar dysfunctional family systems
- Virginia Satir's Five Freedoms
- Brene' Brown's definition of love and belonging
- Defining authenticity
- Identifying emotional safety
- Old story/new story
- The somatic embodying of the new story
- The Hero's Journey
- Narrative therapy techniques to externalize clients' feelings of shame
- Self-compassionate visualization and letter writing interventions
- Mindfulness for non-judgmental awareness
- Breathing techniques to bring emotional and physical calm
- Therapeutic art techniques - how clients can process pain outside of themselves
- The role of yoga, dance, and movement in mediating shame
- Reconnect to the self with nature therapy strategies
- Evidence, Research Limitations, and Treatment Risks
- Examining the research and research limitations on discussed techniques
- Addressing potential risks
- Contraindications and other considerations
- Vulnerability, humility, self-awareness, and courage
- Support systems
- Remember the oxygen mask
- Healthy boundaries
Patti Ashley, PhD, LPC, 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.
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Please note you would need to watch the presentations as they are presented live in order to receive live credit. Self-study credit is not available for the archive recordings of the live training sessions.