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Unpacking and Healing Shame

Friday, February 27th, 2026   1:45 PM EST -4:45 PM EST
Shira Sameroff
$59.99

This interactive presentation offers practitioners theory and tools for understanding and healing the widespread yet most often unseen issue of individual and collective shame. It aims to equip participants with insight and skill to support clients in overcoming shame-related challenges and to help transform the systems that cause and perpetuate shame. We will explore the underlying causes of shame, its manifestations and impact including the role shame plays in perpetuating oppression and paths to individual and collective healing and societal transformation.

About the Presenter

Shira Sameroff, LCSW is a therapist, coach, teacher and group facilitator with over 30 years of practice with people of diverse identities, ages and life stories in a wide array of settings. Her work has included teaching, therapy, coaching, supervision, group design and facilitation, community organizing, transformative decluttering and a decade and a half directing programs in a community-based social work agency. Other work has included board leadership, canvassing around the U.S. and numerous other community-building social change and earth-repairing projects.

Shira’s approach is collaborative, intuitive and full of heart and is rooted in her own lived experience of healing, learning and emerging. She weaves together a range of therapeutic healing modalities including IFS, Hakomi and other holistic, somatic, nature-based and anti-oppressive practices into her work with individuals, groups and organizations. She is passionate about her work teaching practitioners about themes of individual and collective healing such as unpacking and transforming shame, group facilitation, healing loneliness and social isolation and empowering practice with youth.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the origins and development of shame, and the role it plays in clients emotional well being and relational patterns.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge the role shame plays in perpetuating oppression.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of the difference between shame and guilt.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural and societal influences on shame and its expression.

Agenda:
This course can be 1.5-3.5 hours and agenda depends on length.

This workshop offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
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  • Therapist Express 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 mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
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Refund Policy:
Full Refund until 48 hours before scheduled date.
48 hours before: full refund less $5.00 processing fee. After event no refund will be given.
*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.