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Transforming Shame
Helping Therapists Work with Shame - Directly, Strategically & with Confidence
Shame is one of the most painful—and often hidden—emotional experiences our clients carry. Yet, it’s also one of the areas most overlooked in our clinical training. Many of us leave graduate school with a cognitive understanding that shame is both adaptive and not entirely true, but without the practical tools to meet it skillfully and directly in the therapy room.
As therapists, we feel its presence acutely, even if clients don’t speak for it directly. More commonly, shame hides beneath clinical patterns and client complaints we see every day:
Codependence
Chronic blaming
Eating disorders
Over-working
Addictions
Inner criticism
Social anxiety
Fears of failure
Perfectionism
Procrastination
People-pleasing
Self-sabotage
Dissociation
Anger issues
Feeling “stuck”
Avoidance
These aren’t “symptoms” that have to be eradicated. They are protectors that have adaptive survival strategies developed to shield clients from the pain of the shame state they believe is true.
While these protective patterns once helped our clients survive, they often end up getting in the way of the very change they’re seeking—blocking progress and keeping them feeling “stuck”.
As wonderfully compassionate therapists, we may offer empathy and insight, but this can lead us to miss opportunities to unearth the deeper roots of shame. So it remains intact and secretly driving the client’s life…
Which is why this training was created.
Transforming Shame is a live/online, 5-week course for therapists, coaches, and healing professionals who are ready to bring shame out of the shadows and into the center of their clinical work—with more clarity, confidence, and knowing that there is a way to get into a direct relationship with shame so that it can transform at the source.
Problems & Purpose
What Makes This Training Different?
You’ll get a clear, step-by-step system to:
This isn’t passive learning. It’s a live, small-group coaching model that offers a lot of time for your specific questions as you consider how you might apply these strategies to your specific client-dilemmas.
Tatra de la Rosa, LMFT
Therapist, Educator and Healing Shame Strategist
I created this course because I kept hearing the same questions from colleagues:
“How do I actually work with shame—without getting lost in it?”
“I can feel and hear the shame in my clients but I don’t know how to do anything other than name it.”
“It feels so overwhelming when we get to the places that hold shame - I feel stuck even though I know what’s going on.”
This training brings together what we know about how humans heal—with insights from developmental and attachment theory, trauma-informed, bottom-up approaches, and the real-life patterns we see in the therapy room every day. Rooted in over a decade of clinical experience, I’ve designed this course to be clear, practical, and deeply useful. My goal is simple: to help clients build a healing relationship with shame, and to support therapists in moving past stuckness by getting to the heart of what’s really going on—gently, skillfully, and with confidence.
Transforming Shame is the course I wish I’d had in graduate school—because shame shows up everywhere, quietly shaping the lives of nearly every client we work with, often in painful and deeply limiting ways.
Course Details
Upcoming 2025 Workshop Dates
AUGUST SESSION
AUGUST 15, 2025
AUGUST 22, 2025
AUGUST 29, 2025
SEPTEMBER 5, 2025
SEPTEMBER 12, 2025
OCTOBER SESSION
OCTOBER 3, 2025
OCTOBER 10, 2025
OCTOBER 17, 2025
OCTOBER 24, 2025
OCTOBER 31, 2025
Questions? Contact tatra@compassionatetrainings.com
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.
LCSW, LPCC, LEP and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.
For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Tatra at tatra@compassionatetrainings.com
For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly.
For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.