An advanced training for clinicians who want to learn more about working with chronic shame in the counseling room. (4) CEU's have been submit for MaMHCA approval. Attendees will leave the training with better assessment and interview tools in tracking shame. Attendees will learn how chronic shame forms personality, attachment responses and shows up in a wide variety of clinical presentations and systemic reactions. Attendees will leave the training feeling more connected to themselves, their work and able to discuss how their own shame informs their clinical praxis.

About the instructor: Dr. Phoenix Rosewood, LMHC, is a counselor educator, supervisor and local therapist who works with individuals to address the legacies of trauma, integrate it through evidence-based, developmentally-paced processes and work towards living a life worth living and in connection. Phoenix currently teaches at Westfield State University in the MA in Psychology program and has formerly taught doctoral-level and masters-level counseling and counselor education courses at Antioch University. Phoenix's mixed methods and qualitative research explores and quantifies the connection between shame and transforming relationships, workplace cultures and other systems with values of diversity, equity, inclusivity, belonging and justice. This training is an offering through their local counselor training institute, The Ruby Institute for Healing and Belonging.