Unpacking and Healing Shame: Theory and Practice for Counseling Practitioners
Presented by Shira Sameroff, LCSW on 10-18-2024 at 9 a.m. Pacific (12 p.m. Eastern) to 11 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern)
This interactive continuing education presentation offers mental health practitioners theory and tools for understanding and transforming the pervasive individual and collective issue of shame, aiming to equip participants with skills and insights to support clients in overcoming shame-related challenges and transform systems that cause and perpetuate shame.
In this 2-hour webinar, Shira Sameroff, LCSW will explore the underlying causes and manifestations of shame, differentiate it from guilt, examine cultural and societal influences on shame, and describe its profound individual and collective impact. She will also unpack the relationship between shame and addiction. Finally, Shira will describe the role shame plays in perpetuating oppression, and ways to support healing transformation for individuals and communities.
This introductory level continuing education webinar is designed to help mental health professionals:
- Describe the origins and development of shame, and the role it plays in clients' emotional well being and relational patterns.
- Explain the difference between shame and guilt.
- Describe cultural and societal influences on shame and its expression and the role shame plays in perpetuating oppression.
Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: A list of references supporting the course content will be provided to participants.
Declaration identifying any potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support: No conflict of interest indicated.
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Continuing Education (CE) Information
2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety.
GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.
GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395. GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.
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Registration Information
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Meet the Presenter
Shira Sameroff, LCSW
Shira Sameroff is a licensed clinical social worker. She has decades of practice with people of diverse identities, ages, and life stories in a wide array of settings. Her professional roles have included therapy, supervision, professional development, continuing education and college teaching, coaching, community organizing, transformative decluttering and a decade and a half in leadership in a beloved community-based social work agency.
Shira offers professional development for individuals and organizations around themes including shame, group facilitation, supervision, giving and receiving feedback, empowering practice with youth, tending to self as a practitioner and trauma-informed and oppression-informed therapy. She weaves together a range of therapeutic healing including Internal Family Systems Therapy, Hakomi, and other somatic, nature-based, and anti-oppressive practices to enable individual and collective healing transformation.
Shira’s approach is collaborative, intuitive, and full of heart and is rooted in her own lived experience of healing, learning, and emerging. You can learn more about her and her work at shirasameroff.com.
Continuing Education Provider Approvals
GoodTherapy.org is Approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
GoodTherapy.org has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6380. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. GoodTherapy.org is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/30/2022 - 03/30/2025.- GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395.
- GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.
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