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Undoing Shame: The Key to Trauma Healing

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More than any other obstacle, shame can block the joy and peace traumatized clients seek in therapy. Feelings of worthlessness prevent them from metabolizing positive experiences. Rather than seeing their accomplishments and strengths as accurate reflections of who they are, shame sabotages their progress. Paradoxically, as clients get better in treatment, standing up for themselves more and reaching their goals, these shifts can evoke other forms of shame, like self-doubt and self-judgement. In this workshop, you’ll explore. You’ll explore how to:

  • Understand and accept the role of shame in surviving traumatic events
  • Undo negative beliefs rooted in traumatic events that fuel feelings of inferiority and unworthiness
  • Connect with and move through feelings of shame to make space for more pride and self-love

Here's What You'll Learn

The Role of Shame in Traumatized Individuals

  • How shame supports the dorsal vagal or submission response
  • Procedural learning of survival responses
  • How shame can be adaptive in a dangerous environment

The Neurobiological Effects of Shame

  • Flushing, gaze aversion, collapse, loss of speech
  • How somatic symptoms of shame become belief systems

Survival “Advantages” of Shame

  • Inhibiting behavior that might elicit abuse
  • How shame supports loyalty to family over self
  • Shame as a non-threatening response to perpetrators

Interventions for Addressing Shame

  • Developing a mindful relationship to the shame as implicit memory
  • Cognitive re-structuring of shame as a survival response
  • Treating the shame as a child part humiliated by an inner critic

Limitations of the research and potential risks

  • Evaluating risk in use of mindfulness-based or cognitive restructuring techniques
  • Identifying clients appropriate or inappropriate for these approaches

Everything You're Getting

  • 2 hours of video content
  • Up to 2.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Janina Fisher, PhD

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.

She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150037
Duration:
2 hours
Copyright:
Oct 05, 2024
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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