Healing Shame for Women
We all have shame but because shame itself is experienced as shame-full, 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 p.m. in Berkeley (Shattuck and Ashby)
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.
Intern Growth Group
- Provides a safe space to process feelings and an antidote to isolation and shame
- Shines a light on real world self-care skills that are alluded to in grad school but rarely taught
- Helps develop resources to meet the challenges of working in the agency or non-profit world, relating with supervisors, and advocating for self
- Eases the confusion of “not-knowing” and the overwhelm in working with what are often the most complex clients
- Encourages the use of intern years as an invaluable educational resource as well as a way to earn a living and accrue hours
I have been working with interns as a therapist, supervisor and mentor for many years and know that the right therapeutic support can make a big difference in successfully getting through to the end.
Intern Growth Group
Tuesday mornings, Berkeley Office, time TBA
Group now forming – call for details: 510.418.2387
