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.

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: HeartMath Certified Trainer – sponsored by Kaiser Permanente; Interpersonal Focusing Levels One and Two with Ann Cornell; Wilderness Walk Experiential Program and Leadership Track 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.

Workshops or individual sessions are available live and over Zoom.

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 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.

My work as a practitioner and coach initially grew out of a commitment to my own healing. I got into this work because I needed it myself — and I still do! Sixteen years later, I am grateful to be able to share what I have learned with clients around the world. My approach to each client is holistic and highly customized; I believe that each client’s journey is unique. As no two people are the same, no two healing paths are identical.  My training at the Center for Healing Shame has taught me how to gently look for ways shame plays a role in our stories, keeps us stuck, and holds us back from the healing we long for.

In addition to Healing Shame, I hold certifications and training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing (SE), Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy, Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience (DARe), Trauma Informed Stabilization Technique (TIST) and Trauma Recovery Coaching. I am also a certified Grief Educator and Death Doula. I am always on a mission to expand my horizons and incorporate new learning and research into my modes of support.

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.