Healing Shame Directory Of Certified Practitioners

Disclaimer: This professional directory can help you locate a Healing Shame Practitioner. We cannot make assurances that any individual would be suitable for the needs of a particular individual. A listing in this directory does not constitute an endorsement of any particular person. It reflects their completion of a training program in Healing Shame – Lyon/Rubin Method. Therefore, we cannot be held responsible for the actions and abilities of any person listed here. Nor are we claiming or guaranteeing the credentials listed here, other than that the Practitioner has completed a full training program in Healing Shame with Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin or has the equivalent experience. Not all of those listed are licensed mental health professionals. Practitioners have listed their credentials, including licensure, in their individual listings at their sole responsibility and we are not in any way guaranteeing their accuracy. Users of this directory understand and agree that the Healing Shame program is neither liable nor responsible for any actions of those using or choosing to list in this directory.

CALIFORNIA – San Francisco Bay Area

East Bay

(Oakland, Berkeley, POINT RICHMOND, Walnut creek, SAN RAMON, Livermore, FREMONT)

As a person of color I am aware of the way shame can paint us as other and make us feel unworthy. It is from this place that I then work to help my multicolored clients reconnect to their inner strength so that they can continue to find love and fulfilment in their everyday lives. I specialize in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, relational issues, somatic complaints, past life regressions, cross-cultural struggles, and spiritual guidance. I aim to help my clients rediscover parts of themselves that they never knew existed, to have more meaningful relationships and ultimately live a more meaningful life.  I began working with Bret and Sheila on healing shame in 2013. I quickly learned that if I could ally myself with shame and not ignore it or fight against it, I could gain a great teacher. I discovered that shame can speak to why it is there so that it could reveal what changes need to be made to have more fulfilling lives. Hablo Español.

Cómo Latino, entiendo como los desafíos de estar en otro país pueden causar que la gente se sienta aislada o deprimida. Es desde este punto donde yo trabajo para ayudar a mis clientes hispanohablantes a reconectarse con su fuerza interna para que puedan continuar disfrutando del amor y la vida cotidiana. Yo me especializo en trabajando con ansiedad, depresión, trauma, problemas relacionales, dolencias psicosomáticas, regresiones a vidas pasadas, y consejería espiritual. Mi objetivo es ayudar a mis clientes a redescubrir sus tesoros internos, para tener relaciones con otros más satisfactorias y poder vivir una vida más significativa. Comencé a trabajar con Bret y Sheila en curaciones de la vergüenza en 2013. Aprendí rápidamente que si podía aliarme con la vergüenza y no ignorarla o luchar contra ella, podría ganar un gran maestro. Descubrí que la vergüenza puede explicar por qué está allí, de modo que pueda revelar qué cambios deben realizarse para tener vidas más satisfactorias.

The understanding and modalities of healing shame that I’ve learned through Bret and Sheila’s work has fueled my longtime passion for uncovering and bringing forth the brilliance of who you are as a unique and worthy individual. When the cloak of shame has been lifted from your inner experience of yourself, that brilliance is finally freed, bringing the joy, expression and fulfillment that is your birthright. 

I’m a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice for nearly forty years. My specialties include relationship issues, self-esteem, creativity, healing from loss and grief, life transitions, and trauma recovery. My training includes EMDR (for trauma recovery, overcoming action blocks and increasing self confidence), Inner Relationship Focusing, Wilderness Retreats, Equine Facilitated Therapy, Action Theater Improvisation, Point Zero Painting, Life Coaching and Leadership Development. I work with couples, families and individuals. I welcome your inquiries. 

I discovered a long time ago that my soul task is to "remind you of your original blessing." What I didn't know was why we all seem to forget. Bret and Sheila's work gave me the permission and the tools to focus on shame as the core issue. Healing shame is an experience of safe re-engagement, both in belonging to a community and in face-to-face intimacy. So I work with attunement, affirmation, compassion, mercy, my own limitations, and imagination to help facilitate an experience of original blessing.

I am a licensed MFT/PCC who has trained primarily in trauma, including action methods (imaginal, dramatic, experiential) prior to focusing on Healing Shame with Bret and Sheila. My overall background and I think my primary gift is in the spiritual realm. I have an extra degree in pastoral counseling. Shame, more than anything else, convinces me that mental health and spirituality are two sides of the same coin.

Shortly after retiring from teaching high school English, I sat in my first Healing Shame workshop. I was immediately hooked when I realized how unknowingly drenched in inadvertent and even conscious shaming the educational system is for all its stakeholders. Eventually, I also awoke and worked on my own debilitating shame.

As the Workshop Coordinator for the Center for Healing Shame, I have been steeping in this material while exploring other teachings from which I have built a toolbox for working with shame. From this I offer a deep understanding of how shame affects the nervous system and how to work with it. Using research-based HeartMath as a central resource for increasing resiliency, I offer an array of other practical tools and best practices to bring coherence and resilience to the system again, whether on an individual or organizational level.

I pull from the following to create tailored experiential workshops or individual sessions for teens, adults, and educators to unpack shame and re-source resiliency: Wilderness Walk Certified Shadow Coach; HeartMath Certified Trainer – sponsored by Kaiser Permanente; Inner Relationship Focusing Levels One and Two with Ann Cornell; Wilderness Walk Experiential Program, Leadership Track and Master Walker with Suzanne Hanna; Equine Assisted Experiential Learning with Lisa Walters; Healing Shame Practitioner – Lyon/Rubin Method; fifteen years in education; and full mesa carrying Shaman – Peruvian-Andean tradition.

I work with individuals, run groups and do couples’ work in tandem with my husband, Jeff LaMie.

When shame shows up in therapy, it can become an invisible obstacle to getting better. This is especially true when working with women who have experienced pregnancy loss, miscarriage, still birth, neonatal death, and abortion. Compassionately addressing shame around the body's fertility capacities, our body's appearance, or even our success at being a woman, can help bring your full experience into the room to be healed so that you can move forward with the new normal.

I love companioning women through perinatal bereavement in coming home again to their bodies. Transforming the shame around your loss honors both you as a mother and the little one who went away so soon. Most of all, I want women who are grieving a loss like this to know that you are not alone, you are not to blame, and with help you will find hope again.

What would your life be like without shame?
As a Certified Healing Shame Practitioner, I believe a richer, more satisfying and shame-free life is within reach of us all. 

In addition to my advanced training in Healing Shame: Lyon/Rubin Method, I utilize EMDR, Mindfulness, and Relational Gestalt Therapy to help individuals achieve their treatment goals.

I am also a passionate believer in the power of group therapy. I currently run two groups: Healing Shame for Women and Healing Shame for Therapists (a women’s group), both designed to be especially helpful for women who struggle with feeling loved or lovable, women whose access to feelings is frozen, long-term recovering individuals, and/or adult children of families with addiction or mental illness.

We all have the ability to heal ourselves. This is my deep belief and the foundation of my psychotherapy practice. Working together with my clients in the here and now, I provide a safe place to gain insight, understanding, and concrete tools to enable positive change. I use methods suited to the individual needs of each client so that a holistic experience of cognitive understanding, emotional expression, and somatic (body) awareness is possible. My training includes Healing Shame, Recreation of Self, Hakomi Mind/Body Psychotherapy, Energy Psychology (EFT and Jin Shin), and EMDR. I am a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for trauma resolution. My clients include individuals, trauma survivors and people with cross-cultural and immigrant issues.

A Shamanic teacher taught me that “the things we struggle from in this lifetime are the unresolved issues of our ancestors in the other realm. Our ancestors dream us into being to heal those unresolved issues.” It became obviously clear to me when I started my journey with the Center for Healing Shame that my spiritual calling was to heal my ancestral lineage of shame and trauma to reverse that cycle of suffering in the family. And it is now my life purpose to bring that level of healing to the greater collective.

The healing work that I provide is a patchwork quilt of several modalities. This medicine blanket is comprised of my education as an NLP Certified Practitioner, Certified Practitioner from the Center for Healing Shame, Inner Relationship Focusing Practitioner – Ann Weiser Cornell, and Drug and Alcohol Addiction recovery. I am a certified Elder in the African Dagara Indigenous Medicine, and I am a Full Mesa carrier in the Peruvian Andean Shamanic Tradition.

I’ve been helping people heal for over 18 years in the weaving of this medicine, holding sacred space in a powerful sacred container of safety and vulnerability. My sessions are in person in Fremont and include a blend of life assessment, shamanic energy healing, Healing Shame, ancestral work, and sound healing. I also work with couples in tandem with my wife, Elizabeth Davidge.

We will explore how the client’s struggles are affected by implications in this lifetime, past lifetimes, and ancestral patterns that continue to spiral down through continuing generations, wreaking havoc and chaos. You will be amazed at how the combination of the Indigenous Medicine and the Healing Shame work together create a powerful platform of transition. 

I am an African American therapist committed to working with a very diverse population of clients, individually and as couples. My training as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, my work, and my own experience have all taught me that in addition to individual and familial factors that engender shame, toxic shame is often historically embedded in the social structures that perpetuate it. I want to work with people to help them change the historical and personal legacies that leave them feeling that they cannot succeed, inhibiting self-realization and self-actualization.

When we are embedded in shame we are often unable to make therapeutic progress. Working directly with shame helps us to get unstuck. As an interactive attachment based therapist, with training in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy for individuals and couples) I work to strike a balance between empowering people to make necessary changes in their lives, and helping them to develop coping strategies to manage circumstances that cannot be changed. I have particular interests in human diversity, racial identity, gender issues and alternative lifestyles.

On the path to real change, our separate parts need to be known, accepted and then brought together, towards an integrated new life. When I reach a blockage in my work with clients, it is often shame barring the door to change. The client’s shame or my own shame equally lead to stuckness. My training with Healing Shame opened for me deep realizations and new paths for working with clients.

I work with adults, individuals and couples. The therapy often relates to life transitions, spiritual confusion, depression, anxiety and career changes. I work relationally and experientially, from a transpersonal perspective. I use Presence Therapy that includes focusing, trance work, story-telling, non-violent communication, dream-work, voice dialogue and when applicable, cognitive interventions.

Sometimes we're so used to the feeling of shame that we can't even see it until it's been released or let go. Feeling stuck in shame or carrying the weight of it around with you for years, if not decades, may make you feel like there's no way out. I know from personal experience, as well as witnessing my clients' experiences, that there is a way out; there are other ways to live; and shame can be let go or even transformed into something useful. Through gentle exploration, the use of guided imagery and the client's own strengths, healing shame is a collaborative process between myself and my clients. It fits in seamlessly with my usual techniques: EMDR, mindfulness, and working with clients' inner children. I work with individual adult clients and would be happy to explore the possibility of us working together to help you get unstuck, let go of the burdens that have been put on you from surviving trauma, childhood abuse, family secrets, or even frequent moves as a child. Although shame is a universal feeling, it can also feel isolating and lonely. You don't have to do this alone.

Craig Toonder, MFT
Oakland, CA 94610
Phone: (510) 499-7137
Email: ctoondermft@gmail.com
Web: www.oaklandcouplescounseling.com

Shame can have many faces. Some are obvious experiences of self-criticism. Others are less obvious, like criticizing others or various forms of denial or withdrawal. However shame shows up, it always involves the triggering of an unconscious body memory.

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in somatic (body-mind) psychotherapy. In addition to my shame training with Bret and Sheila, I have also training in the Hakomi Method, Formative Therapy, Psycho-Physical Therapy, AEDP, Re-creation of the Self, and Somatic Experiencing. Through this blend of somatic and relational training, I bring to my work a unique sensitivity to the mind-body connection, the importance of compassionate presence, and a scientific understanding of the process of our wounding, as well as our innate capacity to heal. This allows me to move beyond the limitations of regular talk therapy into the realm of embodied memory where true awareness and transformation can occur. 

North Bay

(Petaluma, San Rafael, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol)

Erin Andersen, LMFT
865 Third Street, Suite 202
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Phone: (707) 596-0494
Email: erin@erinandersen.com
Web: www.erinandersen.com

As a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (and human being!) I have always had a hunger for learning about what helps us live life unencumbered by pain and suffering. Learning about shame with Brett and Sheila and the incredible Healing Shame Community has not only had a tremendous positive impact on my capacity to help clients, but also on a my capacity to be a better human being. The depth of compassion for self and others that arose from witnessing and taking part in the excellent clinical work with shame has been a profoundly touching and informative experience. As a Healing Shame Practitioner, I am able to discern the difference between helpful shame and toxic shame and am far better equipped to help my clients work through the sticky, tricky terrain of shame and the many different faces it presents with. In my private practice, I weave shame work with my foundations in Emotion Focused Therapy, humanistic, experiential and attachment-based psychotherapy. I work primarily with couples and adult individuals. It is an honor and great privilege to engage in co-creation with the courageous people I get to work with. Please reach out to me if you would like to explore working together.

I have been transformed both as a person and as a therapist, now that I have integrated the tools that Bret and Sheila provide in their Healing Shame Certification. While shame was the perfect tool for surviving difficult and challenging childhoods, it can become a toxic barrier that prevents us from living the full and complete lives we all deserve. Taking steps to seek help with how shame may be getting in your way is such a brave action forward and one that I deeply respect. I feel truly privileged to work with individuals, couples and relationships of all types to help people heal from the past so they can manifest most completely in their present. My therapeutic style relies heavily on cultivating curiosity, calm, clarity and a sense of connectedness so that my safe presence is expressly felt and experienced by my clients. Please visit my website (www.tatradelarosa.com) to learn more about me, my history as a therapist and my approach to working with people, to see if I might be a good fit for you or your loved ones. Additionally, you may prefer to contact me directly for a free telephone consultation.

erica C. Formway, LMFT
920 Mendocino Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Phone: (707) 595-0244
Email: therapy@ericacformway.com
Web: ericacformway.com

While I certainly believed myself to be familiar with the concept and definition of shame, I was unaware of just how insidious and pervasive shame is within the human experience. Thanks to Bret and Sheila’s Healing Shame Certification Program, I now have a much more expansive understanding of the different ways shame comes to be a part of our individual experiences—the reasons it sticks to us so intensely and the tools and strategies we can use to combat and break the hold that shame has on us. I believe that each of us has a shame monster within us, fighting to maintain control over our experiences, our personal narratives, and our lives. Over the course of the many workshops I have attended and through the support of this Healing Shame community, I have seen the power and control that shame can have over each of us start to diminish as we become more resourced, more aware and curious, and more skeptical of the shame messages we have believed about ourselves from past to present.  

My therapeutic approach centers around how our early attachment relationships have culminated in an attachment style that carries with us throughout our adult lives. I integrate Attachment Theory and Healing Shame concepts to help clients identify their own shame messages, fight back against their shame monster(s), and regain power and control over their lives. I start with an introduction to shame— where it comes from, why it exists in the first place, and the difference between healthy and toxic shame. I support my clients to identify, build up, and access their resources so they have the strength and courage to confront their shame. I primarily work in the “imaginal realm” to help clients visualize their shame monsters and work to shift their shame narrative, using countershaming tools, eventually working to give back the shame they have been carrying for so long.

Please visit my website at ericacformway.com to learn more me. 

Bringing shame out of hiding takes a lot of courage—yet all of us have shame. And, we all have the sincerity and self-care that can gradually shift the toxic shame of "There is something wrong with me" to being more at home with ourselves. As we heal childhood neglect, or abuse, or the fallout from substance problems, mental illness, or violence in the home, healthy shame helps us move into more respectful relationships with others. I feel honored and grateful to be a licensed therapist accompanying my clients as they undertake the transformative work of identifying shame, knowing it, and healing it. My therapy work is deeply informed by Bret & Sheila's Healing Shame training—and by my own exploration of shame in my life. I offer a genuinely kind relational bridge to heal the often unbearably-alone experiences that come when shame is in hiding and hurts so much. Gradually bringing shame into the light and warmth of shared caring heals the hurting heart. More at my website: drglennfrancis.com

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with individuals, couples, and families. I am also a Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and a Certified Hypnotherapist. I see how profoundly shame impacts people's lives. With the tools I have learned from Bret and Sheila, I can help you to heal from toxic shame and support you in reclaiming your power and taking back your life. 

In addition to Healing Shame, my other areas of specialization include: Trauma Resolution, PTSD, and Anxiety Reduction. I work with many abuse survivors. If you would like to know more about my work, I am listed on the Psychology Today website.

I am now providing telehealth sessions to clients.

In order to transform our relationship with shame, we must do so in the presence of other loving eyes who are in touch with their own pain. And that’s where I can come in.  I consider myself a guide for the tender hearted and offer individual therapy and grief counseling to adults. I specialize in working with those who are experiencing: grief and loss; anxiety, intrusive thoughts and panic; shame, perfectionism and low self esteem; challenges in living life as a highly sensitive person. I offer in person and virtual sessions where you can expect a blend of authenticity, curiosity, playfulness and deep compassion. I predominantly work from a relational and trauma informed perspective, but also draw from somatic practices, parts work, mindfulness, and expressive arts. 

I also offer HeART Speak, an in person Expressive Arts Grief workshop series to support adults who have experienced the death of a loved one and are interested in exploring their grief through the art process.

As Ram Dass said, “we are all just walking each other home”. So, I invite you to take the next courageous step to transforming your shame. Let’s join hands, we can take it one step, one breath at a time.

I have always believed in the client’s innate desire to grow towards greater well-being and I seek to help them find the best within them.  In my training with Bret and Sheila, I have learned how to recognize shame as it begins to emerge. This gives us the opportunity to work with these strong feelings before they become overwhelming. Finding the optimal distance between ourselves and the potentially isolating reactions of shame, we can learn to reassess with self-compassion and begin to re-engage with life and our loved ones.  I am trained in a humanistic experiential model of therapy, which includes the science of adult attachment. To learn more you can visit my website at www.deborahhaarstadmft.com.

Shame is like a deep shadow hiding in the psyche. We can spend years trying to work around it, pretending it isn’t there. But as long as we do that, it has power over us. It holds our secret negative beliefs and memories and hurts us with them. Since 2008, Bret and Sheila have been two of my finest teachers, especially regarding shame. I have seen time after time that shame can be dissolved, sent packing, when it is exposed to the light. In our safely held space together, whether working with a couple, an individual, children, or with an entire family, we can bring it forward and let it go, or we can figuratively give it back to whoever gave it to us. This work is tremendously freeing for your heart.

Shame is often strongly present in my work with trauma, abuse victims, couples in trouble, and loss of all kinds. Please check out my website to learn more about me or call with questions or to schedule a free half-hour consultation at my office.

San Francisco and Peninsula

In over 20 years of experience working with clients I have seen shame is at the root of our deepest, most intense personal pain; It breaks our sense of connection with others. I offer a process toward deep healing. It is your journey and I am honored to share in helping you heal and move toward health and a life and relationships you choose.

Deep healing can happen within our relationships with ourselves, those around us and the world we live in.  Offering a gentle presence, a collaborative, respectful and compassionate process, I help you find your own answers and ask the tough questions to get you there. This is a difficult journey; you do not have to do it alone.  I can sit with the unspeakable pain, witness and see you through experiencing a storm of shame and come through it to regain your light. You are welcome to view my website for more information, www.PersonalChange.org, or call or email me with questions or to find a time to meet.

CALIFORNIA – Santa Cruz

Brian Spear is a Wilderness Guide who works with adults and teenagers to find clarity and direction and integrate it into their everyday lives. Brian is a certified Hakomi practitioner, certified Healing Shame practitioner, and a trained wilderness guide in the TerraSoma approach. Brian leads shamanic walks in person and out in nature in Santa Cruz, CA, using a blend of Nature Connection, Somatic Resourcing, Shamanic Healing, Mindfulness, and the Healing Shame process to release what’s been hidden and buried. Shame can leave people feeling stuck, frozen, and alone, while healing shame can bring people more alive, more into themselves, and more into the fullness of their lives. Brian holds a powerful and open container for the clients' unconscious to unfold, leading to moments of self-revelation and deep imagery. Clients often report feeling relieved, able to get perspective on an issue, move beyond feeling stuck, and have more clarity and space to work with the challenges in their lives.

Brian specializes in areas surrounding men’s issues, post-traumatic growth, resiliency and accountability coaching, navigating life transitions, corporate burnout, and compassion fatigue.

Brian offers 1-hour sessions, along with half-day and full-day retreats with clients in person in Santa Cruz County. He also offers 1-hour and 2-hour live sessions online through Zoom in a distance learning format, available worldwide.

CALIFORNIA – Fresno

Although I have been an educator and Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and worked with clients for many years, I was not trained to recognize shame or help clients with this deeply painful, alienating affect until I worked with the Lyon/Rubin Healing Shame model. As a longtime client in my own psychotherapy, prior to working with Sheila Rubin and Bret Lyon, I often felt stuck, feeling alone and hopeless because I was so shame bound. I had no words for this feeling in therapy as a client.  The Healing Shame model has transformed both me and my work with my clients. If you struggle with a deep beliefs that you are "bad," "defective," or "wrong," in all likelihood, shame is binding your sense of well being, vitality, self confidence and self agency. This can result in feeling depressed, anxious, or simply stuck in the past and in chronic self-attack, anger, or detachment. Using the Healing Shame model, I work slowly, establishing safety, helping you find your inner resources, and allow you to find what is profoundly precious in you as a unique human being.

I offer a free, in-office consultation to help determine if I am a good fit for you. For more information, please find me on Psychology Today for Fresno Clovis area in Central California or call me at (559) 298-7230.

CALIFORNIA – Grass Valley

Trauma and shame, as they begin to resolve, can be portals into a whole new way of seeing and being in the world. I know this from working with myself as well as others. As a somatic therapist who has worked with trauma for more than thirty years, I was really grateful to learn to identify and work with shame. It was a missing piece that has become fundamental to my practice. In working with trauma and shame, I have found that change comes about quicker and deeper when body awareness is included in the therapy. Insight is not enough. For our nervous systems to become balanced and regulated we must be in touch with the physiological changes occurring in our bodies as they happen. My approach is gentle but persistent. I help develop a safe environment in which the client and I can work together creatively.  I work with individuals and couples. To view my extensive training in shame, trauma and somatic therapy, please refer to my website. I have been practicing meditation and mindfulness for 40 years and live with my wife and three dogs deep in the forest of the Sierra Mountain foothills.

CALIFORNIA – Los Angeles

Amy Doublet, SEP
West Los Angeles, Montauk, NY, and online
Phone: (310) 463-5498
Email: amydoublet@me.com
Web: https://wellnessalchemist.com

I have been assisting Dr. Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing, in his master classes for the past year, and have assisted in SE International Trainings for 12 years.  I am currently assisting Bret and Sheila in their Healing Shame training and am deeply honored to be included in this profound work. I come to this work with 28 years of experience in Cranio-sacral and Polarity therapy.

Pervasive shame affects so many people and there are so few trained therapists who work with it. It's not uncommon for practitioners to confuse shame with misplaced aggression and other behaviors. I don’t judge “resistance” because defenses arise to serve as protection. Much of what we experience as resistance is a brilliant resource. I specialize in helping to counter shame, especially from developmental trauma.

Come home to yourself and live the life you were meant to live. Reconnect to your vitality, joy, and curiosity. Feel safe, settled, and in creative flow.

I offer international Somatic shame-based retreats and corporate trainings. I also see people online and in person.

My mission is to help people who feel stuck to discover authentic and lasting healing. Supporting clients and patients to discover and heal shame is one of the most profoundly impactful aspects of my practice. I’m an integrative doctor, an intuitive, a teacher, a holder of sacred space, an empathic and compassionate presence with you on your journey. Spending a lifetime inviting a deeper personal healing journey and over a decade practicing and teaching integrative medicine, yoga therapy, psychology and energy healing has helped me to realize that our power lies in living life authentically and fully. Often, shame is in the way - healing it is a transformative experience. Come as you are - all of you is welcome here. 

Brian D. Mahan, SEP, was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in 2003. He suffered from seven to ten full-blown panic attacks daily, following a catastrophic automobile accident. After just a few sessions with a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), he was completely symptom free. He immediately contacted the Somatic Experiencing Training Institute and committed to study the lifework of Dr. Peter A. Levine.

Brian is an educator, author and practitioner in private practice. He also holds retreats and seminars, focused on re-establishing a sense of safety and re-awakening embodiment through healing stress and trauma. His studies in Healing Shame with Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin have informed his practice beyond measure. He is thrilled to now be assisting Bret and Sheila in their ground-breaking trainings. Brian is also an assistant trainer for the Somatic Experiencing Training Institute.

Brian offers sessions both face-to-face for local clients and by phone, FaceTime, Google Hangouts and Skype for clients nationwide and internationally.

CALIFORNIA – Nevada City

Christie Marie, MA, Spiritual Psychology
Nevada City, LA and online
Phone: (818) 424-8860
Email: Christie@WhiteLotusGuidedHealing.com
Web: www.WhiteLotusGuidedHealing.com

Shame is a significant barrier to re-connecting with our innate spiritual self, the source of our wisdom and well-being, Understanding the nature of shame, how it is impacting our lives, and transforming toxic shame into healthy shame, lifts the mantle of darkness and stagnation, and allows us a path back to our brightness and our joy.  Through the work with the Lyon/Rubin method of Healing Shame, I have been able to recognize this barrier in myself and in my clients and begin the specific and precious journey of unraveling it. 

My work with clients is a guided journey of healing using psychology, spirituality, and the healing arts (Bach Flower Remedies, energy work, guided meditation/imagery, intuitive coaching, and past life regression hypnotherapy).  I also have a background in 12-Step Recovery and working with Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunction.