Healing the Roots of Shame – Unlocking Self-Compassion Through a Neurobiological Perspective
General Information
Title: Healing the Roots of Shame - Unlocking Self-Compassion Through a Neurobiological Perspective
Presenter: Janina Fisher, PhD
Dates: Tuesday, July 29, 2025. 12PM-3PM Eastern Time
Fee: $125. Includes 3 CE credits and 2 months access to recordings.
Venue: Live Webinar (Zoom)
CE Credits: 3
Healing the Roots of Shame – Unlocking Self-Compassion Through a Neurobiological Perspective
Description
Therapists frequently confront the negative impact of shame on their clients’ ability to find relief and perspective. The feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy interfere with taking in positive experiences, leaving only hopelessness. Attempts to increase the ability for self-assertion get undermined by beliefs that they do not deserve respect or care. Even progress in the treatment or greater success in life stimulate more shame and self-judgment rather than pride in their hard work. Clients repeatedly take two steps forward, then one step back.
This webinar will introduce participants to understanding shame from a neurobiological perspective—as a survival strategy driving somatic responses of “total submission,” disconnection, and numbing. Participants will learn to help clients begin to relate to their shame with curiosity and mindfulness rather than self-hatred and self-rejection. Using a variety of somatic and mindfulness-based interventions inspired by Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, issues of shame can become an avenue to transformation rather than a source of stuckness in treatment.
Instructor
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation and the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment. More information can be found on her website: www.janinafisher.com.
Healing the Roots of Shame – Unlocking Self-Compassion Through a Neurobiological Perspective
Objectives
1. Describe the biological role of shame and self-loathing
2. Discriminate between healthy shame and toxic trauma-related shame
3. Implement two somatic interventions for addressing shame with clients
4. Describe two ways of challenging shame-related cognitive schemas
CE Information
Continuing Education Credits are granted through Neuhoff Psychological Consulting, PLLC for the following professions: Psychologists, Social workers, Mental Health Counselors, LMFTs, and LCATs. It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.
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Satisfactory Completion:
Participants must have signed in and out, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate. Failure to sign/log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available electronically after satisfactory course completion. A link will be provided for those who have completed the training.
Healing the Roots of Shame – Unlocking Self-Compassion Through a Neurobiological Perspective
Policies
Application Deadline: July 27, 2025 or until all training spaces are filled, whichever comes first.
Notification of Acceptance
Applicants will be notified, via email, of acceptance when registration is complete, and payment is received.
Refund/Cancellation Policy
Tuition/registration payments are refundable (minus $20 registration fee) until June 27, 2025. Cancellations after this date are non-refundable. In this situation, we will attempt to find someone to take your slot (based on our waiting list).
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Healing the Roots of Shame – Unlocking Self-Compassion Through a Neurobiological Perspective
Schedule
| July 29, 2025 | Outline I. The neurobiology of shame and its purpose:
II: Shame and the body:
III: Mindfulness in the treatment of shame:
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Healing the Roots of Shame – Unlocking Self-Compassion Through a Neurobiological Perspective
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