What You'll Discover Inside This Course
Janina will guide you through her revolutionary approach to shame treatment. Using engaging case studies, practical tools, and downloadable worksheets, she'll show you exactly what to say and do, every step of the way.
Shame, Self-Loathing and Trauma Treatment
Gain foundational insight into shame's "living legacy" in the body and mind. Understand how shame can block the access and healing of trauma wounds. Integrate body-based modalities to resolve shame and treat trauma. Janina will guide you in exploring:
The Neurobiology of Shame & Attachment
- The role of shame in traumatic experience
- What to do with "treatment-resistant" shame
- Shame as an animal defense survival response
- Effects of shame on autonomic arousal
- Shame as a defense to traumatic attachment wounds
The Meaning of Shame in the Treatment of Trauma
- Shame as a survival strategy
- Trauma and procedural learning
- Implicit memory of disgust, degradation, and humiliation
- Shame-based meaning-making
- Cognitive schemas that exacerbate shame
- Vicious circle of shame and anger Internal Working Models
Treating Shame
- Why shame is hard to overcome
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: physiological state as the entry point for treatment
- Mindfulness-based techniques to combat trauma responses & inhibit self-judgment
- Regulate shame states with somatic interventions
- Unravel shame as implicit memory
- Work with shame-based cognitive schemas
Healing Shame with Acceptance and Compassion
- Dis-identifying with the shame
- Re-contextualize shame as a younger self or part
- Shame and the Structural Dissociation model
- Getting to know our "selves"
- Recognize the role of critical voices and judgmental parts
- Dual awareness of who we are now and who we were then bringing our adult compassion to our childhood vulnerability
Healing Shame in the Therapeutic Relationship
- How can we use therapy to 'repair' shame states?
- The role of therapeutic empathy
- Therapists as neurobiological regulators
- The social engagement system in trauma recovery
- Incorporate playfulness, acceptance, and curiosity
Healing Shame & Attachment Wounds
Gain a skillful understanding of how layers of shame and attachment wounds prevent our clients from achieving meaningful intimacy — then master interventions that help them move beyond these damaged attachment styles, fears, and deep alienation for good.
Trauma & Alienation from One's Self
- Manifestations of self-alienation
- Attunement, dysregulation, repair
- Effect of neglect and abuse on attachment formation
- Attachment styles & brain development
- Early body & emotional experience
Brain Research: Somatic Remembering
- Right vs. Left brain hemispheres
- Structural dissociation model
- Split-Brain research
- Case Study
Understanding How "Parts" Relate to Shame
- Learn the language of parts
- Know your clients' "Internal Community"
- Alienated parts experienced as feelings
- IFS for integration of structural dissociation
- Establish a relationship between the adult self & parts
- Increase capacity for social engagement
- Social engagement system of the therapist
- Video Demonstration