Healing Shame for Women
We all have shame but because shame itself is experienced as shameful, we rarely talk about it. We do our best to pretend, cover up, stay busy, avoid, but too often it only gets worse.
Healing Shame (Lyon/Rubin Method®) is a targeted way or working with the four physiological responses to shame: Attack Self, Attack Other, Deny and Withdraw. It provides a safe, small-group environment designed to help:
- Anyone struggling to feel good about herself
- Anyone who grew up in a home with addiction/mental illness,
- Anyone who can identify shaming/traumatic events in her history
- Anyone in long term recovery
- Anyone whose grief or anger feels frozen
- Anyone who feels hopeless or unlovable
Through education, skills-building and gentle group process, members will start to identify shame, learn the difference between healthy shame and toxic shame, develop resilience and self-compassion, discover ways to connect with others to receive the support that melts the shame freeze, and gain clarity around whose shame they are carrying and how to give it back.
For a free telephone intake and more information, please give me a call at 510.418.2387.
Healing Shame for Women
Thursday nights, 6:45-8:15 pm (currently online)
Three month minimum commitment required
Group Cost: $240/month
Two individual sessions are required for assessment and preparation. This allows you to get a feel for what it is like to work with me, allows me the chance to get a feel for your unique history, and helps both of us to prepare you for the most positive group experience possible.
Healing Shame for Therapists – A Women’s Group
Provides a safe space for those of us struggling to feel good about ourselves as therapists as well as women, mothers, partners and/or friends.
Co-facilitated by Joan Gold, MFT and Haley Hewitt, MFT, utilizing a combination of Relational Gestalt therapy and Somatic/Imaginal/Experiential exercises. Together we are committed to establishing a safe and nurturing space where shame can be transformed into love and acceptance.
- 1st Saturday of the month, 9:30 am to 1:30 pm, currently online
- Cost: $140 per session
- Two session intake
- 10 month commitment
- September 2021 Group now forming – call for details: 510.418.2387
