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DEEP DIVE: SHAME
DEEP DIVE: SHAME
“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
— Anaïs Nin
Shame doesn’t just whisper I’m not good enough. It convinces the client they are unlovable, broken, irredeemable. It cuts deeper than guilt, isolates more powerfully than fear, and lingers longer than rage. For therapists, shame is both a clinical puzzle and an emotional landmine — easily overlooked, often misdiagnosed, and rarely addressed head-on.
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Yet behind so many presenting issues — chronic depression, compulsive behaviours, relational withdrawal, sexual silence, even grandiosity — shame is quietly working. It distorts self-perception, disrupts intimacy, and infects the therapeutic relationship itself, pulling the client into secrecy and the therapist into self-doubt.
This curated Deep Dive brings together six of the most powerful, provocative, and clinically rich video courses on the subject. From the visceral to the philosophical, from trauma to sexuality to maternal ambivalence, these trainings don’t just describe shame — they show you how to recognise it in all its forms, and how to respond with precision, creativity, and care.
Whether you’re working with survivors of abuse, clients caught in obsessional loops, or those who can’t even name what they feel — this series will change how you think about shame, and deepen your capacity to meet it.
What’s Included
- Challenges in Trauma Therapy: Working Effectively with Resistance and Chronic Shame
Kathy Steele | 5 CPD/CE | £135
Explores how chronic shame intersects with resistance in trauma therapy, and how to engage both with clinical clarity and compassion. - Let’s Talk About Sex: Breaking the Silence and Reducing Shame
Christiane Sanderson | 10 CPD/CE | £249
Unpacks the shame that silences sexuality — and gives clinicians tools to open these vital, vulnerable conversations. - Shame, Obsession & Habitual Worrying: A Relational Perspective
Dr Richard G. Erskine | 6 CPD/CE | £160
Examines how shame-driven inner dialogues manifest in worry, obsession and self-righteousness, and how to restore contact-in-relationship. - The Soul-Eating Emotion: Manifestations, Meanings and Clinical Challenges of Shame
Dr Jan McGregor Hepburn | 3 CPD/CE | £65
Tackles the distinctions between shame, guilt, and humiliation — and how these complexities show up in your consulting room. - The Web of Shame in the Therapeutic Space
Christiane Sanderson | 10 CPD/CE | £249
An immersive course exploring intergenerational shame, practitioner shame, and how shame dynamics play out within the therapeutic relationship. - Understanding the Hostile Mother and Her Shame
Dr Daniela Sieff & Dr Brooke Laufer | 3 CPD/CE | £65
Combines forensic psychology, evolutionary theory, and lived experience to explore maternal shame — and how society’s myths about motherhood worsen it.
Who Is This For?
This Deep Dive is ideal for:
- Therapists, counsellors and psychologists across all modalities
- Practitioners working with trauma, addiction, sexuality, perfectionism or relational disruption
- Clinicians seeking to improve their ability to identify and treat shame dynamics in diverse client populations
- Those supporting parents or maternal mental health, especially in complex or taboo territory
What You Will Learn
Across these six courses, you’ll explore:
- How shame disguises itself as resistance, rage, silence, avoidance, self-attack, perfectionism and compulsivity
- Techniques to build shame resilience — in clients and in yourself — without retraumatising or colluding
- The role of erotic shame and sexual identity in clinical work, including with clients affected by CSA, porn use or sexual withdrawal
- Defences against shame: withdrawal, attack-self, attack-other, avoidance — and how to work through them
- Shame’s links to guilt, narcissistic vulnerability, humiliation, self-esteem collapse and maternal hostility
- How shame mutates within the therapeutic relationship — and how to navigate both client and therapist shame
- Why understanding maternal ambivalence through a shame-informed lens matters for perinatal, trauma and family work
Gain 37 CPD hours across six expert-led video trainings. Begin your deepest clinical study of shame to date.
Book now to access the full series at £923.
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What's included in this course
- Presented by world-class speaker(s)
- Handouts and video recording
- 37 hrs of professionally produced lessons
- 1 year access to video recorded version
- CPD / CE Certificate
- Join from anywhere in the world
This curated Deep Dive brings together six of the most powerful, provocative, and clinically rich video courses on the subject. From the visceral to the philosophical, from trauma to sexuality to maternal ambivalence, these trainings don’t just describe shame — they show you how to recognise it in all its forms, and how to respond with precision, creativity, and care.
Learning objectives
- How shame disguises itself as resistance, rage, silence, avoidance, self-attack, perfectionism and compulsivity
- Techniques to build shame resilience — in clients and in yourself — without retraumatising or colluding
- The role of erotic shame and sexual identity in clinical work, including with clients affected by CSA, porn use or sexual withdrawal
- Defences against shame: withdrawal, attack-self, attack-other, avoidance — and how to work through them
- Shame’s links to guilt, narcissistic vulnerability, humiliation, self-esteem collapse and maternal hostility
- How shame mutates within the therapeutic relationship — and how to navigate both client and therapist shame
- Why understanding maternal ambivalence through a shame-informed lens matters for perinatal, trauma and family work
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Develop the ability to interpret and modulate the body’s nervous system (sensory and autonomic) to regulate arousal levels in clients and for safer trauma therapy
Identify and acquire recovery options and strategies for trauma clients inappropriate for trauma memory processing, particularly for those who don’t want to and those who decompensate or dysregulate from memory work
Also develop the ability to interpret and modulate the body’s nervous system (sensory and autonomic) to regulate arousal levels for professional self-care
Kathy Steele, MN, CS has been treating complex trauma, dissociation, and attachment issues since 1985. She is in private practice with Metropolitan Psychotherapy Services and is Adjunct Faculty at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Ms. Steele is a Past President and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and has also previously served on the Board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). She has been involved with developing treatment guidelines for Dissociative Disorders and well as for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Ms. Steele has received a number of awards for her work, including the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from ISSTD, an Emory University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006, and the 2011 Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions. She is known for her humour, compassion, respect, and depth of knowledge as a clinician and teacher, and for her capacity to present complex issues in easily understood and clear ways using an integrative psychotherapy model that draws from both traditional and somatic approaches. She is sought as a consultant and supervisor, and as an international lecturer.
She has co-authored three books as part of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology: The Haunted Self: Structural dissociation of the personality and chronic traumatization (2006, Van der Hart, Nijenhuis, & Steele – W. W. Norton); Coping with trauma-related dissociation: Skills training for patients and therapists (2011, Boon, Steele, & Van der Hart – W. W. Norton); and most recently, Treating trauma-related dissociation: A practical, integrative approach (2017, Steele, Boon, & Van der Hart – W. W. Norton). She has also (co)authored numerous book chapters and journal articles.
Brooke Laufer, Psy.D. is an independent scholar, writer, and clinician with a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Brooke runs a group practice in Evanston, IL, where she specialises in women’s reproductive health. She has Jungian analytic training and a deep interest in motherhood, perinatal mood disorders, and infanticide. She serves as a forensic evaluator specializing in cases of infanticide and maternal filicide. Brooke works with women who have been incarcerated for infanticide and also runs groups for mothers who have experienced postpartum psychosis. Brooke has been writing and speaking on Medea as the Modern Mother from a clinical and Jungian perspective for the last several years, with the intention of bringing consciousness to the pitfalls of Motherhood. For more information, visit www.drbrookelaufer.com
Dr Daniela Sieff, D.Phil. is an independent scholar, speaker and author. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford in biological anthropology. Her particular focus was evolutionary approaches to human behavior and her research took her to a wilderness region of Tanzania to work with a traditional cattle-herding people. For the past 15 years, Daniela has been researching, writing and speaking about a variety of subjects, including emotional trauma and its healing, maternal hostility, and shame. She has taught or lectured at a range of institutions including, The Royal College of Psychiatry, The Royal Society of Arts, The Compassionate Mind Foundation, The Bowlby Center, the Tavistock Clinic, and various Jungian groups.
Daniela is author of multiple academic articles and book chapters. She is also the author/editor of ‘Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma: Conversations with Pioneering Clinicians and Researchers’ published by Routledge in 2015. She is currently writing a book about chronic (toxic) shame which will bring together evolutionary and psychodynamics perspectives. For more information about Daniela Sieff visit: https://danielasieff.com/
Christiane Sanderson BSc, MSc. is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton, of London with 35 years of experience working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse and sexual violence. She has delivered consultancy, continuous professional development and professional training for parents, teachers, social workers, nurses, therapists, counsellors, solicitors, the NSPCC, the Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Committee, the Methodist Church, the Metropolitan Police Service, SOLACE, the Refugee Council, Birmingham City Council Youth Offending Team, and HMP Bronzefield.
She is the author of Counselling Skills for Working with Shame, Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma: Healing from Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse, Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 3rd edition, Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse, The Seduction of Children: Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse, and Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She has also written The Warrior Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Sexual Violence; The Spirit Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Religious Sexual Abuse Across All Faiths and Responding to Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A pocket guide for professionals, partners, families and friends for the charity One in Four for whom she is a trustee.
Dr Jan McGregor Hepburn has a background in Social Work Management and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and is a trainer for the North of England Association for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She was the Registrar of the British Psychoanalytic Council for 15 years and currently chairs the Professional Standards Committee. She is the author of several papers, most notably those published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy and European Psychotherapy Journal. She has presented papers at conferences and devised and facilitated both seminars and workshops on a variety of subjects to both management dynamics and clinical topics.
She is part of the ScopEd project which is the collaboration between BACP, UKCP and BPC to map the core competencies for clinical work. She is on the Reading Panel of the British Journal of Psychotherapy and has a doctorate from the University of Northumbria. Her latest book: Guilt and Shame, A Clinician’s Guide is out now with nscience publishing house.
Jan was awarded the BPC Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2023 in recognition of her great contributions to the profession and the BPC.
Richard G. Erskine, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and Training Director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy (New York City and Vancouver). Originally trained in client-centered child therapy, Dr Erskine also studied Gestalt therapy with both Fritz and Laura Perls. He is a certified clinical Transactional Analyst and a Licensed Psychoanalyst who has specialized in psychoanalytic self-psychology and object-relations theory. His work is an integration of these concepts and more than forty years of clinical experience, which has included working with disturbed children, inmates in a maximum security prison, borderline and narcissistic clients, post-traumatic stress and dissociative identity disorders. Recently his research and clinical practice have focused on the treatment of the schizoid process and on the psychotherapy of obsession.
He is the author of several books and scores of articles on psychotherapy theory and methods. His best-selling book (with Jan Moursund and Rebecca Trautmann) is Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in-Relationship (1999, Brunner/Mazel) and in 2015, he has published Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence (Karnac). His book Early Affect Confusion: Relational Psychotherapy for the Borderline Client was released in January 2022 by nscience publishing house.
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