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. Most licensed therapists can only work within their state of residence. The individuals listed under “Worldwide Online” are not licensed therapists. 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

UNITED STATES

Robin Athey, Leadership & Somatic Coach
Phone: (917) 442-1572
Email: robin@integralgrowth.com
Web: www.integralgrowth.com
LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/robinathey

Locations Available: Worldwide
Time Zone: Mountain

My journey into shame and trauma began in 2003, as a leader. I became acutely aware of my own shame—how I worked so hard to win approval, felt sensitive to slights—with a persistent sense of self-doubt and imposter syndrome. This led me to become acutely aware of shame dynamics in organizations—all the micro-aggressions that go unnamed.

Today, I work with organizational leaders, startup founders, professionals, social entrepreneurs, campaign organizers, and teams who are on the front lines of change. People who truly want to make a difference—in healthy, generative ways. I support them to transcend the shame that binds them to old, inherited beliefs and emotional patterns—to more fully realize their gifts and talents.

In addition to Healing Shame, I integrate many certifications and modalities into my practice—to meet clients where they’re at. These include: Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, NARM, Organic Intelligence, Ontological Coaching, Growth Edge Coaching, Leadership Circle 360, Leadership Embodiment, Right Use of Power, The Empowerment Dynamic, and Purpose Guiding.

For more about how I practice, please feel free to connect on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/robinathey

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.

When my mother died devastated by incredible grief and bitterness that her life had not turned out how she wanted, I was faced with a precious gift: look or turn away from a mirror reflecting that I was not much happier.  I was a burned-out high school English teacher with deteriorating health and a crumbling marriage. When my husband invited me to a Healing Shame Workshop for Couples, something clicked.  I started seeing shame everywhere.  First, I recognized it in education, then saw its effects on individuals’ behavior.  Finally, I got comfortable enough with the purpose of shame and that it is put on us to look at how it had affected my life professionally and caused challenges in most relationships throughout my life.  What a relief.

As the first Workshop Coordinator for the Center for Healing Shame (CHS), I was given the unique ability to steep in the material for over eight years: exploring my shame and witnessing the universal presence and ability to rewire the shame response in workshop participants over and over, all the while picking up new shame work tools.  After becoming a healing shame practitioner, I studied the larger aspect of the unconscious shadow part in all of us, which is the container for all the things we were told were bad, shameful, and should be denied. Getting familiar with shadow parts brought another level of awareness and choice when young parts get activated and try and run the show. At the end of my tenure with CHS, I was honored to co-teach the Core and the two advanced workshops alongside the co-founder, Sheila Rubin.

In sessions and workshops I pull from the following trainings: Wilderness Walk Shadow Coach Certification; Healing Shame Practitioner – Lyon/Rubin Method; Interpersonal Focusing Levels One and Two with Ann Cornell; Wilderness Walk Experiential Program and Leadership Track with Suzanne Hanna; Relational Life Training with Terry Real; HeartMath Certified Trainer – sponsored by Kaiser Permanente; Equine Assisted Experiential Learning with Lisa Walters; fifteen years in education; Shaman – trained in the Peruvian-Andean tradition, and decades years of living the AA Steps, Principles and Concepts.

Individual sessions and workshops are available live and over Zoom. I work with individuals and couples, and run various workshops related to shame and the inner shadow.

Amy Doublet, SEP
Phone: (310) 463-5498
Email: amydoublet@me.com
Web: https://wellnessalchemist.com

Locations Available: Worldwide

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 travel internationally and may be available to see clients in person as well as online.

My approach with clients cultivates curiosity and compassion as we explore what matters most to that person(s). We work side by side to more fully explore and discover and to support you in developing new capacities.  Our focus is helping you to create a more fulfilling life and relationships (and less suffering!). 

I’ve found Bret and Sheila’s approach to healing shame useful in my life and work. Based on over 20 years of working with systems, people (and my own self), I have come to understand that all our problems, conflicts, dilemmas, confusions, tensions, and struggles have two common factors: 

 -  a relational component and

-  very often a hidden obstacle of shame. 

Unaddressed, those factors can keep us stuck and disconnected from all aspects of life. 

The good news:  Shame can be healed. Relationships can be repaired. This work enables us to create more fulfilling lives and relationships (and less suffering!).  

I work with individuals and couples who want to live, grow, work and relate in healthy, generative ways. Past clients include parents, couples, individuals, organizational leaders, professionals, creatives, entrepreneurs, and teams.  Please reach out to me if you’d like to explore how we might work together.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Jen’s work as a somatic practitioner and coach began as part of her own healing journey. She came to this work because she needed it herself—and still does. Nearly two decades later, she is grateful to share her expertise with clients around the world. Her approach is holistic and deeply individualized, grounded in the belief that each person’s path is unique and no two healing journeys are the same.

Her journey has included formal education in a variety of modalities. She studied at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) with a concentration in Somatic Psychology.

Jen holds certifications and advanced training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic IFS (SIFS), Somatic Experiencing (SE), Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy, Healing Shame, Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience (DARe), Trauma-Informed Stabilization Technique (TIST), and Trauma Recovery Coaching. She is also a certified Grief Educator and Death Doula. Always seeking to expand her horizons, she integrates the latest research and learning into her work.

Weaving nervous system regulation, attachment theory, breathwork, and somatic techniques into a deeply attuned and intuitive approach, Jen partners with each client to co-create a path toward resilience, presence, and self-trust—meeting them exactly where they are.

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.

I believe we all have what is needed within us to heal, but often need the caring guidance of a helping professional. As a Certified Trauma Recovery Coach, Instructor for the International Association for Trauma Recovery Coaching and Healing Shame Practitioner, I work one-to-one, and in a group setting, with survivors of physical, emotional neglect & abuse. Offering an honest, inclusive, and compassionate space for the unfolding of my client’s life journey, we gently work to untangle the binds of trauma and shame to promote healing and growth. Together, we will garner tools for daily life and work to come to peace with the past. 

I offer a 30 minute free Discovery Session. If you would be interested in exploring the effect your trauma and shame has had on you, and to see how working together can transform toxic, pervasive shame into healthy shame, I would be happy to set up a session. Living our best life is possible when the impact of shame and trauma has been softened and lifted. My practice is entirely virtual, and I look forward to meeting with you!

CANADA

I am a writer, filmmaker, and shame educator based in Toronto, Canada. My obsession with shame started five years ago when I had a breakthrough in therapy about my own shame. For the first time, I was able to see through the way shame was controlling my life, keeping me unhappy and anxious. After reading as many books on shame as I could find, I started travelling the world on a kind of “Eat, Pray, Shame” soul quest, taking every shame class I could find. It all fell into place when I met Bret and Sheila at the Center for Healing Shame. They helped me realize that the work of healing shame was my passion and I jumped at the chance to take part in their certification program for Healing Shame practitioners.

Now I host a lighthearted podcast about shame called Discomfortable and I’m currently working on a book of the same name. I also do coaching, teach classes on shame, and lead free, weekly shame gatherings through the online community The Stoa (thestoa.ca). Learning to understand and manage my shame changed my life to such a positive degree that I can’t help but share this work with you and everyone else.

Shame is easily the single most powerful force in our lives about which we, as a society, tend to be the most ignorant. That’s why I think everyone would benefit from learning the basics of shame. The more we understand shame, the less power it has over us.

I am a somatic therapist, transformational workshop facilitator, and educator who combines more than 25 years of experience in meditation, emotional release work, and body-mind therapies. My goal is to provide a safe, heart-centered place of openness and acceptance where we can be with challenging feelings together. I aim to help my clients compassionately connect to unknown parts of themselves and bring forth the truth of who they are as worthy individuals.

In addition to my certification in the Lyon/Rubin method of Healing Shame, I am also trained in Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, and Somatic Resilience and Regulation (somatic work for developmental trauma). I offer private sessions in Vancouver, BC and via Zoom, and facilitate transformational retreats worldwide that are focused on releasing the trauma held in the body so you can live a healthier, more authentic and passion-filled life.

PUERTO RICO

Shame is an invisible phenomenon in the human psyche. It is a part of a big uncharted territory where a person can get lost, even if doing a lot of therapy work. It is so secret and hidden, so hard to identify, that it can cause something similar to soul loss—lack of purpose in life, low self-esteem, a deep sense of being wrong, feeling bad or not worthy of anybody's presence, affection, or love. In my training with Bret and Sheila, I have developed many tools on how to work practically with shame, coming to the root of the problem in a much shorter time, tremendously speeding up the healing process.

I have integrated these Healing Shame methods into my private practice methodology, which takes a healing approach to human consciousness and energy systems through Brennan Healing Science, body-oriented psychotherapy based on character structures -- PsychoEnergetics, trauma resolution through Somatic Experiencing®, and herbalism.

I hope to meet you in this deep and uncharted territory of the psyche where we can together walk on the path towards vitality, creativity, and light.

Sessions are offered in English, Serbian, and Spanish.

SOUTH AMERICA

I believe in using the powerful mind-body connection to effectively identify and heal shame and trauma using the integrated approach of Bioenergetics Psychology and Therapy.  Combining linguistic and somatic approaches with knowledge of how they reside in the body’s nervous system, shame and trauma can be identified, located and more gently released. By addressing disturbances in breathing and chronic muscular tension I can help people to become aware of their emotional issues on a somatic level. By addressing shame and trauma at a cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual level,  we can enhance the ability to experience pleasure. This results in an improved connection with oneself and with others.

Creo en el uso de la poderosa conexión mente-cuerpo para identificar y curar de manera efectiva la vergüenza y el trauma utilizando el enfoque integrado de la psicología y la terapia bioenergética. Combinando enfoques lingüísticos y somáticos con el conocimiento de cómo residen en el sistema nervioso del cuerpo, la vergüenza y el trauma pueden identificarse, ubicarse y liberarse con mayor suavidad. Al abordar las alteraciones en la respiración y la tensión muscular crónica, puedo ayudar a las personas a tomar conciencia de sus problemas emocionales a nivel somático. Al abordar la vergüenza y el trauma a nivel cognitivo, emocional, físico y espiritual, podemos mejorar la capacidad de experimentar placer. Esto se traduce en una mejor conexión con uno mismo y con los demás.

SWEDEN

Working in the banking industry on my way toward financial independence, my bank account steadily grew, but my emotional account was nearing a distress level. That realization led me to redirect my life on a new path — one focused on relationships rather than money.

I became a Gestalt therapist, and toward the end of my training, I discovered the world of shame. I was struck by how something so powerful could be so overlooked and underestimated. Today, I am both a certified Gestalt therapist and a Healing Shame practitioner.

I believe in the healing power of feeling safe as oneself in the presence of someone who does not judge, and that this is a deeply human need we all share. For various reasons, many of us have come to believe it’s risky to show certain parts of ourselves. Because our wounds and struggles arise in relationship — it is in relationship that they need to be healed. In the saftey of a guided therapeutic experience, we can explore and make sense of what has been hidden under shame with a chance to see those experiences more clearly and unpack the shame that unconsciously binds you from greater expression and happiness.

Sessions are offered in Swedish and English.