The Center for Healing Shame is an international education center
and CE provider, dedicated to supporting therapists, counselors,
coaches, teachers, nurses, healers and other helping professionals around the world to understand and transform client shame through workshops,
training, certification, and research.
Some of our most important relationships are threatened by the mysterious emotion of shame. It can be extremely helpful to understand what shame is and how it affects your client's body, thoughts, actions and relationships. This site will introduce you to tools
to help you and your clients tap into inner strengths and resilience as a foundation
to support and expand on what’s positive in life. The Center for Healing Shame aims
to transform the world's response to shame, but we cannot achieve our goals alone. Explore this site to learn more about healing shame and how you can become a part of this movement.
““I am very excited that you and Sheila are doing your work on shame. I appreciate your intense and focused explorations on this important topic. Your work is definitely congruent/resonant with AEDP.””
““I want to thank you guys again for a wonderful, stimulating, evocative workshop. I think that the perspective you bring to the central importance of shame in healing the psyche is unique and timely. The safe environment that you created in the group was special. I Ioved the soft, gentle but persistent way each of you tracked the client – finding ways to connect with and highlight their underlying process.””
“Thank you, Bret and Sheila, for a truly amazing weekend. I had clients back-to-back today and I applied so much of what I learned, and I immediately saw how effective your methods were and what a difference they made. I’m so grateful to your brilliance and willingness to share it with the world.”
““Bret and Sheila provide a clear and helpful roadmap for understanding and healing shame. With extraordinary clarity and wisdom, they illuminate the ways that shame shows up and skillfully guide us to help our clients (and ourselves) move toward a fuller and richer life.””
WORKSHOPS
Ready to take the next step? There are a variety of workshops offered throughout the year. Check out our schedule.
Certification
The Healing Shame Certification Program serves the community by training therapists and other helping professionals in how to work with shame.
audio program
Now available!
Our Healing Shame audio learning program from Sounds True, for both therapists and the general public.
Click Below For Details On Our Upcoming Workshops:
Here's What People Are Saying About Our Workshops:
““I didn’t know how to move through shame with clients in a way that felt safe...The way I’ve learned to access shame in these workshops has been truly transformational to my practice!””
““Counter-shaming! I now know what to do with shame when I feel it in the room!””
Joan Gold, MA, MFT, Berkeley
““I didn’t know what shame was before the training...what I learned this weekend is life changing... Bret and Sheila bring so many gifts... they are masters of the work!””
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