THE FOUNDATIONS OF TRANSFORMING SHAME
A 4-Part Introductory Training for Therapists
You can often feel that shame is shaping the session
long before it is ever named.
The Foundations of Transforming Shame is a 4-part training created to help you recognize shame more clearly, understand how it develops, and begin working with it through a more direct and compassionate clinical framework
4 recorded lessons
Self-paced
JUST $47
When Shame Is in the Room, but Hard to Reach
You may already sense when shame is organizing the session.
You can feel it in the collapse after rupture, the relentless self-blame, the shutdown, the perfectionism, the panic around needs or conflict. Your client may be insightful, emotionally aware, and deeply committed to the work, yet the same painful patterns keep returning.
You know something important is happening beneath the surface.
You may see:
collapse after rupture
intense self-blame
panic around needs or conflict
perfectionism and relentless self-monitoring
disconnection, withdrawal, or shutdown
protectors that quickly move in when shame gets close
In these moments, naming shame is often not enough.
Shame is not simply a belief to challenge or a feeling to soothe. It is often a deeply embodied adaptation, shaped in relationship and protected for very good reasons.
The Foundations of Transforming Shame gives you a clearer clinical map for understanding what is happening underneath these moments, so you can begin working with greater clarity, confidence, and care.
This Course
Is For You If...
you are a therapist who senses shame is present, but wants a clearer way to identify it
you work with trauma, attachment wounds, chronic self-criticism, or relational distress
your clients often collapse, disconnect, withdraw, become highly self-blaming, or grow defensive when shame is near
you want a more precise framework for understanding what shame is doing in the room
you are looking for a thoughtful, clinically grounded introduction before deeper live training
you want to begin learning Tatra’s Transforming Shame approach in a self-paced format
This Course is Especially Helpful If...
you often work with clients who say things like “I know it’s not true, but it feels true”
you notice a difference between what your client understands cognitively and what they can actually feel or tolerate
you find yourself sensing that shame is beneath the presenting issue, but want a stronger conceptual map
you want language for working with shame that is compassionate without becoming vague
A Foundational Map for Recognizing Shame More Clearly
This course is designed to help you identify shame more accurately in session and understand why it can feel so difficult to shift, even in the presence of insight, safety, and compassion.
Inside this training, you’ll begin to:
recognize the hidden logic of core shame beliefs
understand how shame forms as an embodied adaptation rather than a personal truth
distinguish shame from adaptive guilt in clinically meaningful ways
identify how attachment rupture, chronic misattunement, and unmet needs shape shame
recognize the protective system that organizes around shame
If you’ve ever found yourself knowing that shame is present, but feeling that naming it alone is not enough to create movement, this course offers a grounded place to begin.
Inside the Foundations of
Transforming Shame Training
PART ONE
The Core Shame Narrative
Explore how shame becomes a deeply embodied belief that feels unquestionably true, even when it was never actually true. This lesson introduces the core shame narrative, the need-shame bind, and the way shame blocks access to needs, anger, and self-expression.
PART TWO
Shame and Adaptive Guilt
Learn the critical distinction between shame and adaptive guilt, and why confusing the two can keep clients stuck in collapse, hiding, or hopelessness. This lesson offers a clearer clinical framework for recognizing when guilt supports repair and when shame shuts it down.
PART THREE
The Attachment Bridge and the Origins of Shame
Understand how shame develops through ruptured and unrepaired connection, chronic misattunement, and unmet needs in early attachment. This lesson explores shame as an internal solution to an external problem and offers a developmental lens for understanding how core shame takes hold.
PART FOUR
Shame Protectors
Learn how protectors organize around shame to prevent exposure to the most painful internal beliefs. This lesson helps you recognize the protective logic beneath perfectionism, blame, withdrawal, over-functioning, collapse, and other clinical presentations that can keep shame hidden.
When shame is present in the room, but difficult to reach, it can leave you questioning what you’re missing.
The Foundations of Transforming Shame gives you a clearer clinical map for recognizing shame, understanding what keeps it hidden, and beginning to work with it more directly and compassionately, so you can feel more confident in the moments that matter most.
Register now for $47
INSTRUCTOR & HEALING SHAME EXPERT
TATRA DE LA ROSA, LMFT
Licensed Therapist, Educator & Clinical Supervisor
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 healing shame 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 continuing education for therapists that 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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This is a fully recorded, self-paced course. You can begin as soon as you register.
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No. This course does not include CE credits. CE credits are available through the live Transforming Shame Training.
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Yes. This training is designed as a foundational introduction and can support both newer and more experienced clinicians who want a clearer framework for identifying shame in session.
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This course was created specifically for therapists and mental health professionals.
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Yes. This course is a recorded foundational introduction. The Transforming Shame Live cohort is a deeper live training experience that includes live teaching, coaching calls, and CE credits.
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Yes. This course is designed to offer standalone value and does not require registration in the Transforming Shame Live Training.
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Absolutely. This course offers a strong foundation and can help you enter the Transforming Shame Live Training with greater clarity and confidence. As a student in this course, you’ll also receive a discounted rate to join the live training.