Matthew J. Modrcin – Treating Shame in Clinical Practice

How often are you and your clients in an impasse in What is the therapeutic process? Change appears stalled and your clients’ progress is limited – and for most of us in This impasse can be difficult for clinical practice.

 Matthew J. Modrcin – Treating Shame in Clinical Practice

The Roots and Origins of Shame

• Personal origins
• Developmental Perspective
• Trauma perspective
• Affective-Somatic perspective

The Therapist Shame Experience

• How clinical models can be shameful
• Barriers to creativity and relationship presence
• Release the shame response

Shame Self-Distortion and Self-Discrimination

• Shame-Identity based
• Adaptive qualities
• Protect yourself from connection

When Shame is Activated – Interventions for Working with:

• Affective processing
• Somatic processing
• Observe and enter the shame activation

Therapeutic Strategies

• Tolerance for shame states is increasing
• The existence of affect is to be held
• An amplifying of positive effects for connection
• Modeling compassion
• Managing enactment moments
• Transparency, honesty and selflessness-Disclosure

Engaging and Sustaining Yourself-Show compassion

• Definitions
• Affective states
• Somatic states
• Narratives of self-Compassion
• Set-Backs and restorations

Additional Clinical Contexts

• Couples therapy
• Group therapy

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Description:

• Help clients overcome their shame – a major underlying reason therapeutic gains aren’t being made!
• Learn how you can work with shame affective state regulation and emergence
• Strategies for the somatic processing shame
• Strategies to overcome shame identity and increase compassion

How often are you and your clients in an impasse in What is the therapeutic process? Change appears stalled and your clients’ progress is limited – and for most of us in This impasse can be difficult for clinical practice.

In this workshop, you will learn to identify and work with shame in order restore the therapeutic alliance.-Engage the client in They are in the midst of a process of change. Shame It is not only toxic in affective states but also embodies the experience. Clients are often unwilling to seek out healing resources, and they are constantly in a state of constant vigilance to avoid further exposure to shameful events. in therapy.

If you miss the tell-tale signs of shame, you not only rupture the therapeutic alliance – you’ll hinder any progress toward healing. As I was once in My practice, and many others in Our field is difficult to identify shame because it is often disguised by anger, avoidance, rage or sadness.

The seminar will equip you with the skills to recognize shame, its effects on the therapeutic alliance and why it has stalled. It will also give you strategies to help clients replace shame with self-compassion.